If you were looking for more reasons to hire a search engine optimization firm maybe this article and the data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project will give you all the reasons you need. Pew found that the use of search engines, both the large generic kind and the small site specific kind, has [...]

The Humboldt Development Authority has recently launched a new website service to help local businesses find employees. WinnemuccaWorks.com - A free service that lets all local employers create an account and then post job openings. “We think this new site will be a state-of-the-art platform for getting employer’s and job seekers together. One of the [...]

By Marian Bond • business@rgj.com RGJ Business Section: July 22, 2008 After being a Web design developer for a local company, Kristy Crabtree decided to open her own company. Westward Strategy & Design Group was established to offer professional services to the small companies that might not want to invest large sums of money to get onto [...]

I came across this article over the weekend, which propelled me to take a look at the Opera Web Standards Curriculum. I have not delved into it too deep yet, but on the surface it seems to be a fantastic resource for anyone looking to push themselves and their web design coding practices forward. I have [...]

The Ball Game Rob Sabo, 7/14/2008 - NNBW.biz A new football-tossing machine by Verdi-based Sports Attack LLC might just give the tiny 13-year-old company a leg-up in the sports throwing-machine industry. Sports Attack last week introduced its “Snap Attack,” a throwing machine that simulates the quarterback snap, as well as the passing and kicking aspects of football. The [...]

It’s been one month since I originally wrote about our client, Creating Effective Organization, and how their new website received top ten rankings in under 2 weeks. I thought I would revisit the subject and check their rankings a month later. Not much has changed in the past month. The title tags and the descriptions are [...]

Webmasters and site owners everywhere are looking for the holy grail of search engine optimization. They’re looking for that one thing they can do to get top rankings in the search engines. They want SEO to be easy. They don’t want to invest in time-consuming link building, article marketing, social media marketing, or website usability [...]

Everyone wants to go green. It’s become hip to be environmentally conscience. At the same time we’ve hit very uncertain economic times. Every day we read headlines on record setting gas prices and more housing foreclosures. With things looking so uncertain many businesses are searching for ways to utilize their greenbacks more effectively, but also [...]

Westward Strategy & Design Group is proud to support Women in Business. Please be sure to pick up a copy of the June/July Northern Nevada Business Weekly ‘Women in Business’ magazine. Other organizations that support local women in business: eWomen NetworkSupporting, promoting and showcasing success-minded women. Professional Sales Women of Nevada Local business professionals, who are committed [...]

Random Friday Post #145 (in your absence Chris)… Start now and make plans for the Extended Talk Like a Pirate Weekend. Here are a few helpful tips as well as some Talk Like a Pirate Events coming this Fall. Countdown: 83 days, 08:43:41 Aaaarrrr! Official Talk Like a Priate Website A Li’l Pirate’s ABSeas - a piratical [...]