A Helpful Blog for Business Owners
Welcome to the BPetersonDesign Blog—a dedicated space for tips on website design, SEO, hosting, and business tools. Here, you’ll find advice on website design, strategies for improving organic search engine optimization, and recommendations for tools that can make managing your business easier. Packed with insights and actionable tips, our blog is designed to help you achieve real results and grow with confidence. Start reading our posts and begin building your business success story today!
Digital Housekeeping: Cleaning Your Website
In the past few months, the Coronavirus has completely shaken up how the Nation conducts business. People are no longer popping into shops to browse for products. More than likely, they are resorting to searching for information, as well as buying goods and services, online. In order to survive this [...]
Website Design for the Cave Creek Business Owners
If you live in Cave Creek, AZ, then you are already aware of how this close-knit community works. Businesses are the backbone of Cave Creek, and people are passionate about supporting these local business owners. In fact, they most likely know them on a first name basis. However, the [...]
Google My Business – What It Is and Why You Should Be Using It
Google rolled out Google My Business roughly 5 years ago. After working with many of our clients, I am surprised how many businesses still aren't utilizing it. It could just be our area; Both of our locations serve the small businesses of Montrose, CO and Cave Creek, AZ - and we [...]
Why Keeping Your Website Updated Is Important
For some business owners, keeping their company website updated is far from convenient. During my meetings, these business owners state they want to launch their website and be done. However, if your goals for this website are to rank on Google search engines, you should eliminate this plan entirely [...]
Ranking #1 On Google Is About More Than Just Your Website
BPetersonDesign is #1 on Google for targeted search terms. We can do it for ourselves, we can help you do it, too! The most common questions we get as a Website Design and Digital Marketing Company is "How Do I Get #1 On Google?" and "Do I Need Digital Marketing?". Many [...]
Recent Changes to Google and How it Affects SEO
Google is always changing its search engine algorithms, shifting how it indexes and crawls sites, and is always getting a little smarter. Search engine optimization (SEO) used to be easy. You just had to create a page on your website with a good title, add some images, and throw the [...]
BPetersonDesign Announces Second Location in Anthem, AZ
Making the Decision Ben and Janae Peterson, age 32 and 31, recently announced the opening of their second location in Anthem, Arizona. Since then, there has been a lot of buzz going around for the power couple, their powerhouse team, and the overall company. They started their company in [...]
Understanding the Basics of Google Search
We all want to be on the first page of Google naturally. When we ask clients what their goal is for their business website, they tell us, "I want it to be on the first page of Google Search Engine,". While a fantastic goal, let's scratch the surface of what [...]
Are You Ready for Mobile-First Indexing?
The tech giants, such as Google and Apple, have a way of keeping everyone on their toes. In this fleeting mobile market, it can be difficult to stay current with new technology trends. Instead of tearing out your hair in frustration with the everchanging policies of the digital world, let [...]
Quality versus Quantity – A Race to the Bottom
This is a topic we have all ran into. When BPetersonDesign's clients ask us if they should consider coming down on price to match a competitor's lower quote. And a race to the bottom begins. We have a simple saying we love to use. "If price is your only determining factor, [...]
Blog Goals – For Pleasure or Google Results?
When meeting with clients about Digital Marketing, a handful of them mention they want to manage their blog themselves or have a friend do it. This is when we ask them what their goals are with their blog. Is it just for fun and for the pleasure of writing and [...]
Choosing the Right Web Design & Development Company
There are a lot of factors that go into choosing the right website design and development company. At least, there should be! With a little tech savvy, anyone can just throw together a website for you. That includes that guy down the street. It sounds tempting because his price sounds [...]
Why You Should Be Integrating A Scheduling System
High Touch Service. Quality over Quantity. There's a reason we hopped on board with a Scheduling System. I remember when we first started considering integrating the scheduling system we offer to our clients on our website. Before our scheduling system, we were manually setting appointments with our clients. And this [...]
You’re Being Lied To: “We Can Put You On The First Page of Google!”
Your First Hint You're Being Played Do you ever get those spammy calls and e-mails from companies claiming they can put your website on the first page of Google Search organically? Or I've heard them take it a step further and claim, "We can make you #1 on Google!". The [...]
How to Respond to Positive and Negative Reviews
Social Media, as you know, is very time consuming if you are doing it correctly. Not just posting valuable content, but also responding to your followers' comments, messages, and reviews. This alone is a full time position. In today's digital age, a business's reputation is controlled by consumers using online [...]
Why It Pays To Have A Company Blogger
In our line of work, we often work with clients who want to start producing blog articles that are worth reading. Smart! We have seen a lot of them copy articles from a different website and paste into their own blog. Others write articles that are more along the lines [...]
How to Have A Healthy Balance Between Motherhood and Entrepreneurship
Sharing a title of Entrepreneur and Mother is difficult to say the very least, and there definitely isn't a secret ingredient to make it work. I was reading an article stating that according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 50% of all new businesses survive 5 years or more. [...]
How To Utilize Your Strengths And Your Weaknesses
I was talking to a client this morning discussing advertising idea's and how we can make their business better, and during our conversation I brought up a strategy that we have brought up many times before. This strategy is a very simple idea, that is very difficult to implement but [...]