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WordPress and WooCommerce Perfect Solution for ID Printing Company

Hoobe ID Solutions needed a new website to significantly expand their eCommerce business. Hoobeid.com was the answer!

Hoobe ID came to KO Websites looking for a fresh, energetic new site that would attractively present their ID printing product line. Their other key goal was to obtain a content management system (CMS) that would be easy for their staff to update often and easily. WordPress CMS fit the bill with the addition of the WooCommerce plugin to add the needed eCommerce power and flexibility.

WordPress and WooCommerce Provide Powerful eCommerce site for ID Badging products company

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KO Websites Talks SEO Content Writing

Does Word Count Impact Page Rank?

Arguments continue over whether you need a 2,000-word-count blog article to have any hope of earning any SEO love from search engines, notably Google. Short answer: You don’t need to hit a word count of 2,000 words with each article you write to earn search engine kudos. That is an artificial goal that makes for an easy meme.

In truth, the optimal length for an article hinges on how many words you need to fully answer a prospect’s question, and position it to be attractive to other writers to earn citations, aka “backlinks.” I have seen a useful two-point test for this, and consider it a good content writer mindset:

  1. Did you satisfy the “search intent”?
  2. Did you fully answer the question asked by the searcher?

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Windows, Siding and Framing Specialists Launches WordPress Website with KO Websites

J&J Siding Experts, a young and growing company based in San Leandro in the San Francisco Bay Area, has hit a big milestone in its growth plan by contracting with KO Websites to create its first website.

“We didn’t have the time or desire to build our first website with Wix or other self-help tools,” said Juan Hernandez, co-owner of J&J Siding Experts. “KO Websites had a perfect starter package that delivered us a highly professional website that gives us what we need: A gallery for our work to present to prospective clients.”

New WordPress Website for Siding Expert Offers Portrait Gallery of their Work

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What Can You Do During the Pandemic to Grow Your Business?

Whether or not you are an essential business, the economic impact of the Coronavirus pandemic has been substantial. Grocery stores and similar businesses are thriving, while gas stations and other auto services are essential and open for business, but have seen business plummet because people are not driving. Caterers used to feeding hundreds at a time are reinventing their business models completely to offer boxed meal and family-sized order services. Sit-down restaurants are making do with take-out and delivery, while missing out on the bigger-ticket dine-in business.

How to Generate Business from Your Core Customer Groups?

Stay Active in Marketing Channels!

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How to Work Remotely During a Virus Pandemic

As a website design company and website design company in the Bay Area, where the coronavirus epidemic is prevalent and growing, we have naturally been tracking the progress of the contagion closely. We have disaster plans in place as any Bay Area business would, given that we live and work on literal faultlines.

Digital Tools Make Remote Work More Manageable

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KO Websites Create Agent Resource Center for Home Warranty Company

At KO Websites we understand how useful websites are as engagement tools for Business-to-Business companies (B2B) to deepen relationships with clients over time. B2B businesses rely on their websites to:

  • Educate clients and prospects on how to apply their products and services to gain higher productivity
  • Give them tools and training to expand the use of the products and services
  • Provide rationale and economic tools to help measure the ROI of working with the B2B business

HomeGuard HomeWarranty Opens Agent Resource Center to Better Engage Real Estate Professional Partners

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KO Websites Creates New Website for Bay Area Scaffolding Company

Performance Swing Stage, a scaffolding sales, service and rental company based in Hayward, CA, worked with KO Websites to launch a new WordPress CMS site to improve digital marketing results. The company had inherited an old HTML website from a past owner and knew it was costing them business with its dated look. It was also hard to manage to take advantage of search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Performance Swing Stage chose KO Websites to replace the old site with an easy-to-manage WordPress website design to showcase their successful projects and their range of services. Continue reading →

Bay Area Travel Tour Company Works with KO Websites on New Site

Tomales Bay Expeditions, a Marin County-based travel/tour company chose KO Websites to build its new WordPress website to promote its local kayak rental and excursion packages.

KO Websites is a Bay Area leader in building “websites that work” for clients as small as sole proprietors and as large as international firms like Matson Navigation. Our emphasis is on easy-to-use functionality that provides a great user experience, and search engine optimization (SEO) to make it easier for prospective customers to find the site. For Tomales Bay Expeditions we focused on clear, simple navigation that brought the interested site visitor quickly to the information they wished to find, and optimized each page to focus on: Continue reading →

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Bay Area In-Home Care Provider Launches New Website with KO Websites

B.E.S.T. Care Provider, a Bay Area firm that offers home companion services and a nursing registry, commissioned KO Websites to create a new WordPress website to better promote their services to the growing number of people needing in-home care for sick and aging family members.

B.E.S.T. Care Provider Chooses Customized WordPress CMS for New Website

KO Websites recommended a customized WordPress website to meet B.E.S.T. Care Provider’s needs for the following reasons: Continue reading →

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New Website for Iraqi Development and Relief Foundation Benefits from SEO Work

The Development and Relief Foundation (DRF) of Fresno, CA and Dearborn Heights, MI manages multiple charitable missions in Iraq to improve the life and opportunities for disadvantaged people. KO Websites has built a new website for the foundation to help it spread the word about its work and attract financial and in-kind support for its programs.

Search Engine Optimization the Key for Non-Profit Website Performance

The DRF came to KO with a project to develop a new website that achieved multiple missions: Continue reading →