Web Designs for Small Business

We are proud to have a presence on Squidoo. Members of the Daybreak Web Designs team have published over 100 lenses!

Recently our account has been awarded Giant Squid status on Squidoo. This is another asset that the Daybreak Web Designs team has attained to help provide the best service possible for its customers.

Many of the lenses associated with us serve to boost traffic to our client’s sites and projects that we own. Lenses also generate income and we are proud to donate a portion of that income to worthy causes.

Special recognition goes out to the talented assistants that work for Daybreak Web Designs. Many of these artists and technicians donate countless hours of community service, both here on Squidoo and in the local community.

A peer’s blog often focuses on the uses of Squidoo, both in SEO and as a source of income.

He was kind enough to publish our thoughts on the subject of Squidoo and how it’s used by the web design community.

View Chuck Huckaby’s Work at Home Business Opportunities blog entry here:

http://work-at-home.business-opportunities.biz/2007/09/10/squidoo-fans-tell-how-its-helping-them-make-money/

A simple sitemap is an important tool to insure that every page of your site gets indexed.

A sitemap can be a manually coded page that lists all the pages of the site, or can be created via special tools such as www.xml-sitemaps.com

Once sitemaps are created and installed, their locations should be spelled out in a robots.txt file.

Here is information on creation of a robots.txt file which will assist search engine robots in indexing your site:

Each site should include a robots.txt which specifies sitemap locations.

To specify the location of sitemaps, just put a line like this anywhere in your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
or
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.html

Replace the Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/ with the actual full URL. For example, if www.yoursite.com has a sitemap file called sitemap.xml in top level, the reference would be like this:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

If you have more than one sitemaps you can either create a special “sitemaps index” file that links to all of them, then put a link to the sitemaps index file in your robots.txt file.

An simpler process is to simply list more than one sitemaps in the robots.txt file.

Example:

Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.html

Need to raise your search engine rankings for your site or increase traffic to your site?

Consider these tools:

• Have your web designer install a blog on your site. Take a few minutes and enter a paragraph or two weekly, or even just once a month.
• Submit online press releases, or see a specialists to have this service done.
• Submit online articles, or see a specialists to have this service done.
• Talk to your web admin about link exchanges with other sites within your niche.
• Post an ad or comment in a relevant category in your regional Craigslist page.
• Create a presence on social networking and community sites such as Myspace, Facebook, Squidoo and others.
• Create email and forum signatures that contain the URL and title of your website.