December 1, 2014 U.S. Thanksgiving, Black Friday Sales Break $1B; Total Holiday Spent Online Will Be $89B

U.S. Thanksgiving, Black Friday Sales Break $1B; Total Holiday Spent Online Will Be $89B Cyber Monday will be used by online retailers to extend the flood of the post-Thanksgiving holiday sales rush. Analysts are coming out with the first number laying out how holiday sales have been […]

November 24, 2014 Illustrated Guide to Advanced On Page Topic Targeting for SEO

Illustrated Guide to Advanced On-Page Topic Targeting for SEO Topic: (noun) A subject or theme of a webpage, site or section. There have been several SEO’s who have recently written about modeling and advanced on-page optimatization. A few of them are: Rand Fishkin’s What SEO’s Need to […]

November 18, 2014 The Future of Shopping In Three Trends

The Future of Shopping In Three Trends A piece titled, Five Trends Driving Traditional Retail Towards Extinction, written by J.J. Colao, examined the eventuality of the death of brick and mortar stores. While it’s demise, was greatly exaggerated, the trends he examined a few years ago, are […]

November 17, 2014 Pickleball Central

Pickleball Central Mak Digital Design has done it again!! Our client at Pickleball Central was in, well; in sort of a pickle with their website. Our client had a website that was convoluted and was not well organized. It was designed using the old design standards and […]

November 17, 2014 All Sports Design

All Sports Design We are excited about the recent work we completed for allsportdesign.com. Your website is the first impression a customer gets of your business. Your website says a lot about how you do business. A problem with a website can signal to a customer bad […]

November 12, 2014 Keeping it Personal with Facebook Ads

How To Keep It Personal With Facebook Ads Most commentators agree that Facebook Ads can be fantastic for creating buzz, unfortunately, it does not increase conversions. I’d like to bring you to the other side and convince you that by treating Facebook Ads differently from other forms […]

November 11, 2014 Launching a New Ecommerce business – 3 easy steps

3 STEPS TO TAKE AFTER YOU LAUNCH A NEW ECOMMERCE BUSINESS So, you’ve joined the 21st century and launched your commerce site. Now what?

November 10, 2014 How to Create a Homepage Slideshow

Design: How to Create a Homepage Slideshow A slideshow helps you get the most out of your invaluable homepage real estate by quickly and efficiently communicating multiple messages in a prominent place, without making your design too cluttered.

November 5, 2014 Product Search To The In-Store Experience unveiled at Walmart

Search Engine Land Walmart Brings Product Search To The In-Store Experience Upgraded mobile app points toward future of brick and mortar retail. Walmart has updated its android app (and it’s iOS app) to offer an improved in-store experience with search at the center. The new Walmart “Search […]

November 5, 2014 Semantic Analytics

Semantic Analytics: How to Track Performance and ROI of Structured Data If you are interested in tracking the ROI of adding semantic markup to your website, while, at the same time, improving your web analytics, this is the post for you!! Come on in and read on!