In our latest round of theme updates we have redesigned the social media links, giving them a new, unified visual style. We have also increased the size of fonts, widened the main text column, and added more whitespace to the page header area, navigation menu links, and drop down menus. And we added a very subtle fade-in animation effect to the navigation menu, which makes it feel smoother and more elegant.
And be sure to check out the new Banner Page feature!
Many of our themes now support visually stunning full page banner images. You can convert any existing page to a Banner page. Here’s how:
An increasing amount of web traffic is coming from mobile devices such as iPhone, Android, and Blackberry phones. Our sleek mobile optimized websites give mobile users the key features they need, while still enabling a full-featured experience for PC and tablet users. Mobile optimization is now included free on all of our websites. Some key features of our mobile ready design:
Google’s Webmaster Tools are useful for checking your backlinks (i.e. finding out who links to you) and for spotting possible errors on your acupuncture website that might hinder your search engine performance.
From Google’s Inside Search website:
People often talk about “the Google results” but the truth is there is no single “Google”—at any given time there are 50-200 different versions of our core algorithm out in the wild. Millions more when you realize your search results are personalized to you and you alone.
Doing SEO on your acupuncture clinic website takes time and effort. In this video Google’s Matt Cutts gives some great basic SEO advice: target a small niche market.
Want to get your acupuncture website found by people in your local area? Google Places listings appear in Google Maps and often show up at the very top of the Google search results page for location-based queries, e.g., boise acupuncturist. Listing in Google Places is free, so what are you waiting for? Listed your acupuncture practice in Google now…
Are you using Twitter as part of your acupuncture website marketing mix? Have you even needed to link to a web page with a long URL? The solution is to use a URL shortening service like bit.ly. This neat little service will take your long URL and shorten it to something like this: http://bit.ly/dSTELH. It’s a must have for anyone using Twitter… and it’s free!
Google's Matt Cutts explains the importance of image ALT attributes for search engine optimization. Users of QiSites acupuncture website builder can edit their image alt attributes from within the image library.
Google’s Matt Cutts discusses how snippets work. Snippets are short bits of text that appear just below the blue link text in Google search results.
HINT: Snippets usually come from a page’s meta description tag. Users of QiSites acupuncture website builder can edit a page’s meta description tag by clicking the meta button.
