At KO Websites, we take pride in delivering high-quality web design, SEO, and online marketing services that help businesses thrive online. We are thrilled to announce that our dedication to excellence has been recognized with two prestigious awards: The Web Excellence Award and The Best of Castro Valley/Eden Area Award!
KO-Websites, a leading Bay Area web design company, is excited to announce the launch of a new, user-friendly website for Meta Paving Stones. Specializing in high-quality paving and stone solutions, Meta Paving Stones now has a website that reflects its commitment to excellence, showcasing the company’s products and services with style and functionality.
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.
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:
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.”
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.
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.
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:
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
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