Are you a small company? Lets find out.
KO wonders if they do web design for small or large companies…
Recently, I’ve had several conversations about the “company sizes” that we do web design, web hosting and web marketing for. We use loosely the term “small company,” “medium company” and “large company” and one client asked me what we considered a small company. I said sells under $2 million a year; an answer that I freely admit that I plucked from thin air. I thought that this was a very fair question and as I started to school myself on contracting for the US government, I found the official answer. Continue reading
Press Release: KO-Websites Moves To New Web Design Studio
KO-Websites Moves To New Web Design Studio
Press Release: KO-Websites completes move to new web design studio at 3209 Castro Valley Blvd, Suite #4, Castro Valley, CA 94546
The new location accommodates the expansion and growth of KO-Websites’ new online marketing team.
Last summer, KO-Websites tested and then launch a new web management & online marketing program, that includes web re-design, hosting, aggressive SEO work and now includes social media marketing management. The recent expansion is direct result of this new popular package. Most recently, KO also included mobil websites to their menue of options.
KO-Websites has been in the Bay Area web design and SEO business for over 10 years and are recognized nation wide for their ability to secure top search engine rankings for their clients. ”Not only are we at the top of the web design and search engine game today, but we recently exploded into the Social Media frenzy, flanking the search engines from a whole different angle, gaining more creditability and visibility for our clients simultaneously in the process. It’s a win X2 for our clients.” “When our clients win, we win.” “Everyone is happy; got to love that!” Say’s O’Donnell, the president of the company.
For more information about KO Websites and their products,
Contact KO at 510-276-9902 or Toll FREE 1-866-797-KOKO (56560
Bay Area Web Design and Online MarketingComodo SSL Compromise
As a GlobalSign SSL partner KO Websites has been notified of a security compromise that affects services that many of us as internet users utilize everyday. So to help keep our clients and friends updated and aware we are passing this notification on to you.
Safe surfing,
KO Websites
As a valued GlobalSign Partner we would like to make you aware of our official company statement on the recent Comodo compromise.
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On March 23 2011, the Certification Authority Comodo announced it had mis-issued 9 SSL Certificates to high profile websites including:
* login.live.com
* mail.google.com
* www.google.com
* login.yahoo.com (3 certificates)
* login.skype.com
* addons.mozilla.orgThe Certificates were issued through one of its unnamed Registration Authority (RA) Partners who had been given transferrable trust rights to issue publicly trusted SSL Certificates.
The fraudulent Certificates have since been revoked, however due to the high profile nature of the mis-issued Certificates, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have issued browser updates to hardcode the revocation status of the Certificates into the browsers. We advise all GlobalSign customers to update their browsers immediately.
This is a very serious compromise of unprecedented scale. As further details unfold, our security group will publish a full statement. However we wish to strongly iterate that this is a completely standalone attack on the Comodo systems. GlobalSign wishes to confirm to all customers, partners and the industry as a whole that GlobalSign is not affected by the Comodo compromise.
How to Write a Blog and Why
What is a Blog?
A blog is basically an online journal. A resource for communicating with mass amounts of potential customers.
How to create a blog?
3 steps:
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Bay Area web design
Bay Area web design
KO-websites.com ranked number one for “Bay Area Web Design” for over 9 years, then dropped to #2 for 9 months, then dropped to #10 after just a minor adjustment on 1/13/2011. The problem is, which minor adjustment did we make that hurt us m0st? Or was it a combination of our changes and or the competition changes, plus other changes like Google’s algorithm or inbound links removed? It’s a little complex!
Watch as KO tries to claw their way back to the top. We will succeed, but it might take a month or so. The difference from #1 and #3 in website generated calls is about 70%. The difference in calls from someone ranked number 1 and number 10 is about 8 to 1.
Bay Area Web design- Watch us go… http://ko-websites.com
KO-Websites.com still ranks very well under other important Bay Area web design search terms, like SEO, web design company, etc.
We don’t buy links, but we manage/host over 150 websites, so we are open to sharing links to industry related websites that make since. Link to us and let us know what you need.
Save $ on your next website design
Your next website design; Save money!
Some companies have no idea what they need in a new website and that’s ok, but you should at least know who your company is and have some basic information together before you contact a web designer. What do I mean?
Here’s how to save money on your next web re-design or your first website…
- Know what web design you want- Look at other websites and know what you think might be nice for your website. Have these domains available for your web designer to look at and talk to you about. These don’t have to be companies like yours, just websites that you like. If your not sure about the look, that’s OK. Just say so and we’ll/they’ll have a profession designer come up with some concepts.
- Next we’ll want to know about your online competition and off-line competition. Who are we trying to beat? Do you market already and or do you have someone else doing PPC and or SEO? It’s ok, but we MUST know this.
- Do you know who you are? One thing that can slow down the launch of a new website is information!
Who are you? What makes your company great? Company history? Products you offer? Who is the person you are targeting the site to?. - Got Logo and or Photos? We need those to make your new website great.
Having this information together will save you time and money on your next web design. If you tell a web designer that you have all this information together already, they will take this into consideration when giving you a quote for your next web project.
LinkedIn? Why bother?
LinkedIn- Why bother? Don’t be silly, read on…
You know all about Facebook and Twitter and how those social webites can help you make more money online. Yet, LinkedIn, a very powerful tool to target business professionals (B2B) remains under used.
If you are looking to get your products and services in front of the general mass audience, then Facebook and Twitter are good solutions. But if you want to attract wealthy, influential professionals then you need a LinkedIn presence.
Neilson Online called LinkedIn, “The world’s largest audience of affluent, influential professionals.”
In fact, you will find more than 80 million of them from more than 200 countries. LinkedIn’s population is highly educated; more than 80 percent have bachelor or graduate degrees. The average household income of a LinkedIn user is about $108,000 per year, and more than 20 percent of LinkedIn users are senior-level executives and managers.
What’s more, over 60 percent of users are decision makers in their companies or have direct influence over key decisions related to product or service purchases. This is something your competition likely does not know.
It’s plain to see that LinkedIn offers its own value proposition. Here’s how to take advantage of it: Don’t wait for prospects to come to you — go get them
Out of the 80 million professionals on LinkedIn, only a few consistently gain clients from the website. Most people have a LinkedIn profile and only a few connections. They are not actively seeking prospects, joint venture partners and referral sources. Instead they spend their time asking: Why should I be on this website? Continue reading
Bay Area web design news
MySpace says Sale of social marketing company is probable. MySpace is confirming with KO NEWS that their parent company News Corp. is looking for a way to unload its poor performing social media web property after unloading nearly half of its staff this week.
Need another reason to explain to your boss why you must be on Face Book all day? Facebook now has AMBER Alerts! Yes, that’s right. The social networking web site Facebook will now get AMBER Alerts if they want them. AMBER Alerts are the notifications of a child is abduction.
San Francisco News paper does not give up
Examiner.com has inked a deal with Foursquare to offer ratings and other things? on the 4Sq. Visitors who login to Foursquare will get access to content from all the Eexaminer news products.
Social Gaming Will Generate $1 Billion This Year
Social gaming is poised to become a billion-dollar industry this year, according to new research from eMarketer. Approximately 62 million American internet user will play at least one game on a social network on a monthly basis in 2011. I should had gone into gaming rather than web marketing I guess 
My theory is…Coming soon will be gaming advertising. It’s sort of happening already at the cooperate level (Coke, etc), but wouldn’t it be cool to have your company buildboard on turn 9 at XYZ race track on the next hot driving game? Or a spray paint (Viral marketing) of your logo on a wall on the next big shootem-up game?
Participation in Real-Time Social Media Increased 20% in 2010
According to Trendstream, users are increasingly engaging in real-time social media conversations via social networking and media web sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Does Google give credit for Social media?
Google admits today, that they do indeed give credit for social activity
Watch this video for more information.
