Tennille is a very knowledgeable web designer and is current regarding web trends. She has flexible hours to accommodate schedules, is a patient tutor, and services are very reasonably priced. Additionally,Tennille has taken the time to provide me with instruction and tools to update and add material to my website all with the comfort of knowing support is only a call away.

Excellent service!

Hits to our site average 250 to 600+ daily putting us over 12,000 hits to date. Stats show visitors are coming from across Canada, U.S., Norway and Sweden. Excellent!

Tennille Barber of Revelstoke Computer Wiz worked with Powerhouse Customs creating our new website from concept to creation, to building a very clean, active, vibrant website. Tennille further shared her WordPress and Facebook wisdom allowing us to actively add new Ride Reports and Video Posts keeping our site current and exciting. Thanks Tennille for all your hard work, encouragement and for giving power to the Powerhouse! BAM!

Jane MacDougall
Powerhouse Customs

How will a client get to your site?

A client will try to pick out keywords that will lead to your site.  Maybe they’re looking for your location.  Your contact information.  They might input your name instead of what you do.  They might input your business name, or just what you do and the location of where you are.  They might also mis spell your information.

Examples:

Tennille Barber

Tenile Barber

computers Revelstoke

computer wiz

computer whiz

What is Google looking for?

Google loves quality information.  They shy away from websites with a limited number of pages.  As it happens, they also don’t like words in all capitals in the title of your website.  If your information stays stagnant your results will drop.  If your competitor does the same thing you do and updates or adds information more often than you, their results will come first.

How can you use WordPress to your advantage to help Google find you and leverage marketing?

The reason that WordPress works so well is that it allows the owner to update things themselves.  The more posts and quality information that resides on the site, the more possibility that your results will be good.  Wordpress initially started as a blog.  In the last couple years it has really become a lot more robust.  When the owner can input things so easily, there are a lot of strategies for drawing clients.  For example, the home inspections website I just finished.  He has a home inspections business, and he has services, a contact page, etc.  However, a good draw for the clients is information on improving your home, or resources from the government on water management, a home maintenance checklist.  Another client of mine is Powerhouse Customs.  They do custom chassis for snowmobiles.  Their draw is ride reports weekly with information on the surrounding area and the snow.

When the owner puts this kind of effort into their site, they increase the marketability of their company and legitimize their product.  However, it also increases the possibility that your website will contain information that leads a customer to your site who wasn’t expecting to be there.   Another example:  Powerhouse Customs may have a client come to their site who was originally looking for information on Boulder Mountain because of a ride report that was written on the weekend.  Those people probably found the information they were looking for but also found new information on where to fix their sled and about the amazing custom chassis that Powerhouse builds.

Rename your images to get picked up on Google

Other ways to increase your visibility is to change the images that you use on your site from “img9908.jpg” to “computerwiz3.jpg”.  Caption them using WordPress.  When people use the Google images search, they will find your images and navigate to your site that way as well.

Below is a screenshot of what comes up when I google my name.  The ones with squares around them are me.  The others with lines marking them are from Get Rad Revelstoke in articles I have written or ones that are on this site.  Google picked these for one of 3 reasons: 1)they are me and titled as so, 2) they are me and captioned as so in the newspaper or my site, 3) they aren’t me but they’re in my articles, and my name is on the post/page where they reside.

What is a tagline?

Another important thing is your tagline.

Title of website – Tagline

Example: Revelstoke Computer Wiz- “computer services, database, networks, server administration and troubleshooting, websites in Revelstoke, BC”.

Very important.  It’s what will come up on Google in the list that the client will find.  A description of your business underneath the title of your website.

How do I move my current interests up Google rankings using my name?

It stands to reason that if you want to move your name on something down the rankings, you should take every opportunity to put your name on the things you can residing on your website.  The more times your name is on posts the more possibility you will move the old listings of your name down and your own listings up.  Example: On getradrevelstoke.com I will put my name on every article I write.

Help us help you.

After you start construction of your website, you can expect to wait a couple months for Google to cache and pick up your website and place it in the proper ranking.   These tasks are all to increase your visibility, legitimize your business, create a good reputation and provide good information.  The side effect is a good Google ranking, but it requires your input and effort as a business owner.  Revelstoke Computer Wiz can help you set up to display this information to your clients, and you will take the reigns and represent yourself through good design and your own effective knowledge and information.

I’m 23 years old.  I’m walking around downtown Revelstoke on vacation looking for a cool spot to hang out.  I might be looking for a place to stay or have coffee, or my skis broke at the hill and I want the best service.  I take out my trusty IPhone.  I have no idea really, how big Revelstoke is or where things are.  Main street is only a couple blocks long and it’s obvious that I am downtown but what if the shop I want to get to is a couple blocks off main street?  What if I’m having trouble finding where I’m going because the awesome place I’m going is having signage issues with the city?

Here’s a little tidbit- websites don’t need permission from anyone.  They contain whatever information we want to present as a public representation of our company.    Younger people don’t look things up in phone books anymore.  Personally, a phone book comes to my doorstep and I immediately recycle it if I can’t catch the person who is trying to deliver it to say I don’t want one.  Literally, the time that I spend looking through the phone book is a waste.  Everything is so quickly at our fingertips these days that anything taking an extra second or two is discarded as a useless process.  The efficiency of our lives is increasing incrementally everyday and if your information isn’t easily found by mobile device, you may be overlooked.

Here are a couple scenarios in the typical busy person’s life:

I’m lost: I use my IPhone google maps function.

I want to get to a coffee shop: I google “coffee shop Revelstoke” on my IPhone while I’m standing in the street if I don’t see one in front of me.

I hear that there’s a great second hand book shop in Revelstoke somewhere: I google “book store Revelstoke” on my IPhone and map my current location to that of the address that I find.

I’m wasting time at a coffee shop waiting for my Americano: I surf Facebook looking for something to entertain myself with.  Get Rad Revelstoke just posted a new article.  The site is responsive, so I read it while I’m waiting.  I decide it’s super cool, so I look it up later on my computer to have a better look at the pictures.

I came to town and I got trapped here because the pass is closed:  Where do I stay?  Let me get my IPhone out and google “hotels Revelstoke”.  I’ll phone and check if there are any rooms.  Wow, thanks IPhone, just saved me pulling someone over and asking them while they’re walking down the street.  Chances of that working: 30%, they’re probably a tourist too.

I’m having trouble finding contact information and yet again downtown with no access to a computer: I look up the contact information on your responsive website and a)give you a call using the number I find.  I touch the number right on the screen because IPhone is smart, it knows that’s a phone number.  It pops up and says “Call (insert phone number here)?” Why yes please.  b)email the owner of the shop while I’m waiting for my latte.  I have an unexpected 5 minutes because my friend is late.  I touch the email address and my email app comes up on my IPhone and I start writing a short message and attach a picture.  They asked for the picture weeks ago, may as well get it done now, I have time… I’m so busy.

That’s the thing.  Everyone is busy.  No one has time to waste anymore.  If your website isn’t viewable by IPhone easily, you risk losing that new customer that doesn’t frequent the shop.  Let’s face it, there’s 8000 people here but if you own a business that competes for the tourist traffic seasonally, they need to know where you are, how to get ahold of you to ask questions, and they need to be interested in your business.  Hopefully your reputation speaks for itself but that doesn’t matter if they can’t find you.

By the way!  Do the environment a favor!  Opt out of receiving a Yellow Pages.