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Testimonials & Comments

Hey man, I love the design of your site. This is such an original and unique layout. Honestly, with all of the experience you have building web sites for clients it’s amazing!

Justin Kunst
justinkunst.com

Speaking of “the effectiveness of your site,” the Orange Snowman did an absolutely fabulous job streamlining the design and navigability of our website: http://www.writebynight.net. And I’m not the only one who thinks so . . . Website Grader agrees.
Thank you, Orange Snowman!

writebynight.net

After careful research of various website design companies that are located in the Treasure Coast Area, I choose the Orange Snowman because of his fair price and availbility to work with me to get my web site up and running and also hand holding me while I climb in the search engine rankings. I must also say is that he continues to hold my hand during this process of competing in the search engine world. Thank You Federico for your time and patience!

fresh48roses.com

We recently had the good fortune of becoming acquainted with Federico, the Orange Snowman. We are very impressed with the degree of his creativity, and with the level of his expertise in the field. We’re looking forward to see the further developments being made, to benefit of our company. Thank you Federico!

castrosinteriors.com

Our new website from The Orange Snowman is the best one we have had. Since we run several businesses from the same location some web designers were intimidated at the task. Federico really listened to our needs and was able to deliver exactly what we had in mind along with some good suggestions that we had not considered. Even though we have been in business 34+ years – 24 of those in the same location we have had many new clients call and come in stating that they never knew what we did. They said they found us on our web site.
A happy customer!

buddysholiday.com

Federico is brilliant. He’s easy to work with and top notch. Truly an expert in his field. He has made my website concepts and goals easy to translate into a productive tool on the web. Thank you Federico for listening intently and being patient with my projects as we develop them and bring them (your creations) to market. I highly recommend Federico aka The Orange Snowman for your internet marketing needs.

Jacquard de Quillettes

Federico, your creativity and attention to detail have really paid off. You’ve made ForeverCool4664 a fabulous website for baby boomers. You’re always thinking and never settle for plain old ordinary. Thanks so much, Orange Snowman!

ForeverCool4664.com

Beautiful website! You have really done a fantastic job, the website looks great! Keep up the good work!

Tori

Federico! You have been clever and patient in helping the Woman’s Club of Stuart create an attractive and relevant site. Also, I appreciate your creative marketing recommendations for my Arbonne, Swiss skin care business. You’re the best!

MonaSalisbury
MyArbonne.com

Thanks “Orange Snowman” for coming up with ideas that will help us be found quickly on the internet. Since our last conversation I have had several folks contact me for their business needs. Most folks really like the idea that I am a local neighborhood printer that can provide them with business cards, embroidery, t shirts and promotional items to help promote their businesses and do it quickly.
Because of your optimization and working with the search engines it is helping me be found….. SO THANK YOU so VERY MUCH!!!
We appreciate all the things that you come up with to promote us all. Reba, Words of Wisdom, Inc. Design & Printing.

wordsofwisdom,inc

Thank you for working so hard on our behalf to have us placed on the first page of a search when a customer is looking for elevators in Florida! You promised us that the applications and methods you would apply would place us in the front running and you did not disappoint. Thank you for helping to increase our internet traffic!

Regards,

seelevator.com

Web 2.0 What's next?

Did You Know? from Amybeth on Vimeo.

Florida SEO webhosting

By Bill Mcintosh
Every computer on the Internet has an IP address. Your computer, your web enabled phone and the server that hosts your websites all have IP addresses. They usually look something like this:

67.45.123.87

As you see above, there are 4 sets of numbers separated by dots.

The first set of numbers is the ‘A’ class
The second set is the ‘B’ class
The third set of numbers the ‘C’ class
And finally the fourth set is the ‘D’ class

Something a bit like this:

A.B.C.D

Inside data centers where your server is located related servers or websites are often hosted by servers with the same ‘C’ class of ips. So their ips might look something like this:

67.45.123.87
67.45.123.79

The search engines know this and can spot when related sites cross link to each other from within the same class C ip address. These links are often filtered out of the ranking algorithms. If your site has too many of these types of links it can even bring a penalty to your site.

That’s why a few companies came up with the idea of “SEO Hosting”. This is where they will sell you hosting on completely different sets of class C ip addresses. People often use this to hide their mini site networks, blog “farms” or cross linking networks.

Keep in mind that Google can also see your contact information for your domain.

Every webmaster wishes his website to be on top of search engines. This is not impossible as it can be achieved easily by following ethical search engine optimization rules. In these rules search engines clearly counts backlinks to a website with particular anchor text to improve its ranking with that keyword. Webmasters tend to achieve these backlinks in any way but here quality of the links matters a lot.

Here a question arises; how the quality of backlinks will be determined? Answer is very clear from search engines as they focus on natural backlinks for which a common term of white hat seo technique is used by seo gurus. Normally linking pattern depends on the competition of a specific keyword for which strength of the websites giving backlinks is most important. Another issue is the continuity of links so your competitors never beat you. To ensure this webmasters tend to get in content links from blogs on regular basis and finally achieve their goal to be on the road of success for rankings.

In recent times webmasters found a way to make a cluster of their own sites and started getting links to their major site. Search engines especially Google do not like this method as it was unethical too. In this situation it was almost difficult for webmasters to have multiple web hosts for different websites. This problem was solved by the introduction of seo hosting in the industry.

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Posted by valeri

What is seo hosting? SEO hosting is a type of hosting primarily introduced for seo purposes. In this type of web hosting, companies provide the facility of different c class IPs with separate cpanel and name servers for each of your website. Even some web hosting companies offer their c class IPs on those data centers which are located in different locations. This helps webmasters to ensure the privacy of different websites owned by them. This way they succeed in following the rule of search engine optimization to get backlinks from websites that are not on same IP address or not owned by same webmaster.

Now what are these c class IPs? Every website has an IP address. Some have dedicated IPs while other share their IPs. In shared IPs your website can be with a bad neighbor website which is not appreciated in terms of SEO. Lets check an IP address 216.235.79.13. This IP has 4 blocks a,b,c,d. Here third block which is represented by “79” is the c block. This determines the location and thus two websites hosted on 2 different c class IPs are always considered as 2 different websites. This is the basic idea of this seo web hosting. In this way webmasters get cheap solution to the cluster of their website and thus easily manage to get backlinks from different websites.

Well, apart from what this all, no one knows how search engines will treat if they trace these sets of c block IPs by different web hosting companies and mark them as spam. Still one thing is for sure webmasters have been able to produce good results with this seo hosting technique.

PayPal & Google Checkout Accounts

To set up a Paypal Account go to: https://www.paypal.com/

To set up a Google Checkout go to: https://www.google.com/accounts/

Improve your web site: check list

This checklist provides 50 simple ways for you to make your website even better!

1. Use .htaccess to redirect the non-www version of your website to the www version.

2. Extend the registration of your domain for at least five years.

3. Make sure that when a visitor clicks your website’s logo, they are taken back to the homepage.

4. If you think your font is too small, make it bigger!

5. Remove widgets that aren’t directly enhancing your website.

6. Include an easy to find contact link, e-mail address or phone number on every page of your website.

7. Use a CSS stylesheet to make your website printer friendly.

8. Fix or remove broken links (external and internal).

9. Add ALT tags to all of your images.

10. If your website is using frames, get rid of them!

11. If you don’t have a robots.txt file, create one.

12. Provide the same basic navigation menu on every page of your website.

13. Use the same color for links throughout your website.

14. Spell check your content.

15. Format your content so that it is easy to scan.

16. Add at least one picture to every page of your website.

17. If you don’t have an About page, create one.

18. Use your About page to show your brand’s personality.

19. Include at least three pictures on your About page.

20. If your website has pop-up windows, get rid of them!

21. Link to relevant social media profiles from your About page.

22. Add a search box near the top of your website’s layout.

23. Create a privacy policy page.

24. Place a link to your privacy policy at the bottom of every page.

25. Use dashes in filenames instead of underscores.

26. Add a link to Google Maps on your Contact page.

27. Add internal links from one piece of content to another.

28. Write a unique META description for all of your main pages.

29. Validate your source code and correct any errors.

30. If you have a link exchange page, get rid of it!

31. Add a site search box to your 404 page.

32. Create a sitemap for your website.

33. Add a link to your sitemap at the bottom of every page of your website.

34. Add a copyright notification to the bottom of every page of your website.

35. Underline your links throughout your website.

36. Turn off music that automatically plays.

37. Get rid of any flashing GIF animations.

38. Include your website logo at the top of every page.

39. Register the .net and .org versions of your domain and redirect them to your website.

40. If you don’t have a help or support section, create one!

41. When you answer a question via e-mail, add the answer to the help/support section.

42. Look at your contact forms and see if there is any information you don’t have to request from your visitors.

43. Add your analytics code to every page of your website.

44. Get rid of any pages that automatically resize visitors’ browser window.

45. Create a favicon for your website.

46. Only use email address that include @yourdomain.

47. Label each box of any forms on your website.

48. Show a confirmation any time a visitor completes a significant action on your website.

49. Create one new piece of quality content for your website every week.

50. Leave a comment under this post!

Characteristics of a well designed website / blog

Some Things to Consider When Building your Website Your Website Should be Custom, Unique and Original, Something that Stands out from your Competitors.

  • Don\’t be Too Wordy with too much Text and Content.
  • Get to the Point. Customers should Immediately Find what they are looking for.
  • Use Bullets or Outlines to Make your Points. They are Easier to Read and Follow.
  • Your site should have a lot of \”Call to Actions\” (reasons for customer to Buy, Call or give you their Name and Phone Number). Once your Website is live, consider how you will Drive Customers to it. (Search Engines, Articles, Advertising, yellow page listing, etc.)

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Orange Snowman's Policy: We keep your information private

Our website collects names, email addresses, and other personal information from customers, donors, and visitors only when submitted via one of our online forms, such as our subscription form, donation form, or mailing list registration form. This data is used solely by ORANGE SNOWMAN LLC and is not shared, traded, or sold to third parties.

Our website also collects non-personal data through the use of server-based \”session variables,\” which we use to achieve important site functionality, including the recognition of logged-in users and the secure passing of shopping cart information. In order to identify customers as they proceed through the check out process, our website also uses a single “cookie” (a small file stored by your browser on your hard drive); thus, online transactions require a browser that accepts “cookies.”

Our web-server also records IP addresses from all visitors to our site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our site, to analyze trends, to track user movement, and to gather broad demographic information—all for the purpose of continually improving our website and delivering personalized, custom content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information, and their collection is standard procedure in most web-server environments.

Our website contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another website, for which ORANGE SNOWMAN LLC is not responsible.

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