Blogs

Do you feel like the SEO tactics your website is using are
outdated? Learn about some shady SEO tactics and why Alt Media
Studios is different.

A large number of WordPress sites are being hacked! Find out why
Alt Media Studios web design is superior.

Our customers are wondering, "Why change your company name?" I
interviewed the owner of Ohio Connect to answer that question for
all our customers' benefit.

New name, same company.

Find out some of the factors that will harm your web presence and
SEO efforts.

Alt Media Studios proudly welcomes Coletta Uliano to our staff as
our new graphic designer.

Cleveland named on Fodor's "Go List" 2015! Why should you care?

A lot of people have the wrong expectations about what SEO is and
what results it will produce. Find out what the SEO process
involves and why you might need to adjust how you think about
results.

An article about the 5 essential steps that every small business
should take in creating a presence on the web.

A recent Inc.com article gave plenty of statistics indicating the
need for all businesses (even small/local businesses) to invest in
online marketing.

Google recently released an update under the guise of Panda 4.0 to
improve Search Engine Results Page user experience. Here's what you
need to know about this update.

Over the weekend, Microsoft Corp rushed to fix a bug in the popular
web browser, Internet Explorer, after being informed by a security
firm that “Hackers may have already exploited it in attacks on some
U.S. Companies.”.

Here at Alt Media Studios, we don't care too much for bugs.
Software bugs, bed bugs, bugs the CIA might have placed in our
office - we don't approve of any of them. So when we heard about
the "Heartbleed" bug that has affected many major websites we
wanted to check if any of our customers who host websites with us
were affected.

On January 9th 2014, our Lead Developer Steve DiFranco gave a
presentation about the "Do's and Don'ts" of Search Engine
Optimization and Social Media Marketing. We had an opportunity to
meet a good number of you at the seminar that was put on by the
Better Business Bureau and answer a few of your questions.

Smartphones are becoming the new norm for accessing the internet.
The multipurpose "smartphone" is replacing the old-school
one-trick-phones and this change is influencing how Americans view
the web. As such, business web pages need to change as well. Here
are some things to consider for your business web page and why you
should have a mobile version.

With so many different Internet marketing options, which one will
provide the best return for your company?

A few months ago we posted an article that referenced Google's
initiative to begin ignoring the META keyword tag. Within the past
few months, we've received an update from Bing regarding their
views of the META keyword tag.

If you've ever been advised about building or optimizing your
website, you've likely heard about META data and the need for them.
Well, things have changed on the Internet (big surprise) and you
should be aware of the current value of META keywords.

We have received several questions regarding an alleged bill which
many businesses have been receiving in the mail from DNS Services.
THIS IS NOT LEGITIMATE!

How many apps do you have on your smartphone? If that's an unwieldy
number today, expect it to slim down considerably in the future.

Alt Media Studios has recently been authorized by Google as a
support provider for Google Apps!

A great article relating to the trends on the Internet from 2011.

Facebook provides an API which allows developers to customize
websites based on Facebook data. Today we developed a custom
plug-in for one of our customers, displaying their Facebook wall
directly on their website.

This week we became the first web development firm to join the
Cleveland BBB "Get Noticed" Program.

Google Apps is amazing, but if you are setting up your
administrator account and there is an existing Google Account for
that username, you may be stuck as we were. Here's how to resolve
your problem.