Blue Ridge Media participates only in quality, related linking strategies, and Webmaster Guidelines, as defined by the major search engines, including Google, Bing, and Yahoo!
Blue Ridge Media reserves the right to accept or deny any individual or group without explanation or cause. Established domain names with a Google PageRank of PR0 cannot be accepted.
Our Web Design Policy We do not promote, or take over existing websites. New web designs only please. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is only available to our current web design clients.
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About Us
Blue Ridge Media
Blue Ridge Media established in 1998, is a North Carolina web design company, located in the rural Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. We provide our small business customers with a full range of static web design and dynamic web design services, including e-commerce, shopping carts, database, photo galleries and easy to update content management web designs.
As professional North Carolina web designers, we know enough about Quality Web Design to write Error Free Code!
Proven SEO Results You Can See
We are one of the few small business web design companies who actually post a large list of our Proven SEO Results for you to see. We believe our top ten search engine rankings in Google speak for themselves!
We learned how to design websites back in 1995 at Motorola, when the only way to design websites was to learn the HTML code. We still handwrite every website using industry standard HTML code. Our 'old school' HTML approach ensures that all of our HTML Code is error free and passes W3C Validation.
Scott - Static Web Designer
Scott, an Electronic Engineering Technologist, and Silicon Valley refugee, is the static web designer. Scott began designing websites back in 1995 when he was a multimedia developer and programmer at Motorola. Scott has worked in the high tech computer industry since 1979, for Fortune 500 computer companies such as IBM, Amdahl, Apple and Motorola.
Cynthia - Dynamic Web Designer
Cynthia, a senior web designer is the dynamic web designer. Cynthia began designing websites in 1995 in Salt Lake City, UT. Cynthia brings her extensive knowledge of dynamic web design, php web design and database web design. In 2007, Cynthia affiliated her web design company, Park City Web, LLC, with Blue Ridge Media.
Five Common Mistakes in Web Design
1) Template Websites - Most template websites come with very little or no technical support. You are often very limited on what you can change in the HTML code. Some template sites even leave out the important META TAGS and any search engine optimization. Many template sites are often riddled with hundreds of HTML coding errors, many of which can't be fixed. Most have no FTP access to the host servers. You will often end up paying extra for website hosting, because the template website only works on the provider's own server. Many templates are just cheap overseas knockoffs, filled with duplicate content. There's an old saying 'You Get What You Pay For'.
2) All-Flash Websites - All-Flash websites might look great, but as we like to point out, there are lots of great looking All-Flash websites that no one will ever find in the major search engines. Unless all of your pages can be indexed with real text for the content, the search engines are not going to be able to find them. This is critical for the first page of any website. All-Flash websites are typically very large animation files, making them unusable by slow speed users. What you end up with is an expensive, and bloated All-Flash website that no one will ever find in the search engines. Flash as content can be used as an effective graphic enhancement if the Flash files are small enough, replacing a photo for example. All-Flash should never be used as the coding foundation for an entire website.
3) Do-It-Yourself Websites - What may seem like an inexpensive solution, can often end up becoming a coding nightmare, and end up costing you a lot more. How much expensive graphic software did you have to purchase? Do you know what you are doing? Did you have to pay for software training classes? Does your business website look professional? Is your website easily found in the major search engines? Do you have broken links and broken images? Does your HTML code pass W3C Validation? Can you fix all your HTML coding errors? Does your website display correctly on different browsers?
If your Title says "Untitled", "Untitled Document", "Home", or your URL, then Your Marketing Needs Help!
4) Relative Sites - Everyone has a relative, a niece or nephew in high school or college that just completed a web design class, and is eager to put your business website online as their next school project. The internet marketing of your business is far too important to trust to amateurs - no matter who they might be related to!
5) Telemarketers - Telemarketing companies will often try and sell you on their Search Engine Marketing Programs, many involving Doorway Pages and Link Farm Scams! Many of these telemarketing companies are based in Europe and Asia, but some also operate in the United States as well. This is where they sell you links on a large number of websites in order to 'artificially' boost your Google PageRank score. If you think you can fool Google - then you are the greater fool!
Blue Ridge Media
Quality Web Design with Proven SEO Results
PO Box 1571
Blowing Rock, NC 28605
828-265-2730
10 AM - 4 PM, Monday - Friday
Closed Weekends and Bank Holidays
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Blue Ridge Media
