Are you a small company? Lets find out.

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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…

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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. Continue reading →

Comodo SSL Compromise

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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.org

The 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.

 

Bay Area web design Search

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‘Bay Area web design’ Search

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 phone calls from someone ranked number 1 and number 10 is about 8 to 1.

Bay Area Web design– Watch us go…

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.

Update- Fast forward 18 months. Panda and Penguin Google updates takes it’s toll and a new website and economy has effects too.

We climbed our way up to #2 for awhile and then dropped to #5 around Jan 2012. We launched a new website using the WordPress platform in late April and fell to #8 soon after. We made some SEO adjustments and are now we’re back to number 5 for “Bay Area Web Design.” Of course if your logged into Google, the search results for “Bay Area Web Design” are not the same. They’re better thanks to Google Plus (G+).

What motivated me to write this update was a warning in Webmaster tools that I had 3 pages (2 blogs and our home page) with the same page title. What? Rookie mistake! It’ll be interesting see what (if any) ranking changes come from this update. Stay tuned.

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Save $ on your next website design

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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…

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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?.
  4. 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.