The Utah County home builders at Innovate Construction called our mutual friend two weeks before their first entry into the Utah County Parade of Homes. They needed a website and fast! The mutual friend, a local website designer, called me. Originally, for speed’s sake, I picked a WordPress template with the idea that we could just slap some photos and text in and we’d be done — lickety-split. However, the designer...
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Another long-term client has been CSB Nutrition. Here’s an archived shot of their original website before I came along: Nice, eh? Well, after they saw so much success (in spite of their website) they ended up moving their operations into a much larger building in nearby Spanish Fork, Utah. Here’s the first website I built for them (click to enlarge): A few years later, in 2015, the owner ran across his...
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Emily Bouchard, of Blended-Families.com, was my third customer back when I went full-time in SEO and web development in 2003. We met at an entrepreneur’s boot camp in LA. I built her initial site from a simple template and coded all the content myself in HTML/CSS. Through my SEO efforts, I was able to get her site into the top 10 Google search results, and keep her there, for years. Over the years, I served as her on-demand...
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In early 2015, I rebuilt ProvoDiamonds.com. I had previously optimized the original site (built by someone else) for various related phrases and it was ranking well. Converting the site from a plain HTML site to WordPress was a challenge in that preserving the rankings requires particular expertise. After doing further keyword research, it was determined that the target phrase “engagement rings Provo”, for which the...
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Although he’s now asking me to revamp his site, the president of Summit Nutritional has been pleased with the basic WordPress site I built for his company years back. The really fun/challenging part was figuring out a way for his customers to fill out, print and/or submit a sample submission order form. Decided to go with creating a custom PDF form that can do all three. Oh, and by the way, it ranks #1 in Google’s natural...
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Often my professional web development projects were the results of a client wanting to get found in the Google search results. Diane’s Wig Shop was one great example. Diane had the oldest wig shop in Utah County but noticed how the wig shops belonging to her former employees were ranking higher on Google. So, she called me. After doing extensive keyword research, I determined that her best chance of doing well on Google would...
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