Borelli Designs

Borelli Designs is Now a BBB Accredited Business

Shawn — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:15:12 +0000

We are happy to announce today that Borelli Designs is now accredited by the Better Business Bureau. This is a great accomplishment for our business, as it speaks highly of our work and dedication to our customers.

We want our customers to feel comfortable choosing Borelli Designs for all of your web design, development, and internet marketing needs. As an accredited BBB business, our customers can feel even more confident in working with us and choosing Borelli Designs as a service provider.

At Borelli Designs, we practice honesty, integrity, and respect within our team and also with our customers. It has always been our top priority to provide the highest level of quality work and customer service. And this will remain a top priority as we continue to grow and expand our business.

Much has changed since the first day we started Borelli Designs (our history). What hasn’t changed is our passion and dedication to our customers and our work. We truly love what we do, which makes it easy for us to provide quality, reliability, and support to our customers.

We are truly thankful to all of our wonderful customers, our friends, and our family members for all of your support through these early stages of our business. Being accredited by the Better Business Bureau is only the start of many more great things to come from the web experts at Borelli Designs!

Facebook Fan Page Marketing Will Change with New Timeline Change

Shawn — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:30:59 +0000

If you have a fan page for your business you’ve probably familiar with the notification that you’re page will soon be changing to the new Facebook timeline. If you haven’t seen this notification, then this is post will serve you well.

On March 30, 2012 Facebook plans to change all fan pages to the new timeline view. So what does this mean for you and your business? Well, if you’re business model is based around building custom Facebook Fan pages, you might be going out of business or scrambling for a new business plan.

In short, this means that all of your custom Facebook applications, your custom welcome messages, email subscription integrations, and all other custom Facebook pages will now become obsolete. The new standard will be a custom Timeline cover for your business fan page.

Before you go planning and designing your new Timeline cover, be sure to do your research! First and foremost you need to figure out the standard dimensions for the standard Timeline cover, which I’ll make it easy and tell you it should be 850 x 315 pixels.

Next, make sure you read the new guidelines for Timeline covers before you start planning. There are a list of things you can’t include in your Timeline cover image, like call-to-actions, pricing information, and sales/discount information.

This is literally going to change the way businesses and marketing agencies market Facebook fan pages. I mean, these aren’t just subtle changes, this is a complete overhaul that’s going to send most marketing experts back to the drawing board, and put many people out of business.

With such a game-changer to Facebook marketing, I can’t help but wonder what Facebook was thinking! Is this really a step forward for business using Facebook as a marketing tool, or is it just like the ‘poke’ button where everyone will hate it and wish it were gone? Share your thoughts below. Also, be sure to check out our Facebook Fan Page Timeline Cover at Facebook.com/BorelliDesigns and “Like Us”.

Top 5 Internet Marketing Tips for Gaining Top Search Engine Rankings in 2012

Shawn — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:15:48 +0000

When it comes to Internet marketing we know how to gain rankings. That’s why Borelli Designs is ranked No. 1 for Internet Marketing in Reading PA!

If you search “internet marketing in Reading PA” in Google and you’ll find Borelli Designs is ranked as the No. 1 organic search result. This isn’t blind luck and it certainly isn’t a mistake.

So how do we rank No. 1? There are a number of things we do on a regular basis to help us gain and maintain top search engine rankings; not only for our business but for our customers.

Internet marketing, a specifically Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not a once-and-done thing. It does require time and regular attention to gain and maintain top search engine rankings.

Top 5 Internet Marketing Tips

The whole reason I’m writing this is because I want to help you gain top search engine rankings for your business. So here are the top 5 tips we recommend to anyone who wants to gain top search engine rankings.

1. Create a list of 5-10 keyword phrases relevant to your business and BE SPECIFIC.

Ex. If you’re a coffee shop in Reading PA, you don’t want (or need) to rank for the search term “coffee shops” or “coffee shops with free wifi”. You want the people of Reading PA, who are your local customers, to be able to find you. Don’t worry about the rest of the world!

2. Search Engine Optimize your Website

This includes adding meta tags, an XML sitemap, and using proper heading tags. These things will polish the surface of your site, but deeper (and sometimes more important) optimization includes clean HTML coding, dedicated web hosting, and quick web page loading speeds. If your site loads slow, this negatively affects your search engine rankings!!

3. List Your Business On Google Places

This can automatically put you at the top of the search engine rankings when people search for businesses locally! Visit http://www.google.com/places/ to add your free listing.

4. Start a blog at least once a week

I cannot stress this enough! You might think this is too much work (so hire us!) but publishing relevant content on a regular basis can help you gain/maintain top search engine rankings. You’ll be surprised how one or two published articles can bump you up to the top of the search engine rankings, above your competition! Visit our blog for example.

5. Get Involved with Social Media

Search engines are now treating social media posts and profiles as normal websites. This means optimizing your social media channels and posting regularly can actually help you gain top search engine rankings. We have profiles with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+, so once you create your profiles be sure to connect with us:)

Don’t Be Afraid to Ask For Help!

If you don’t have time for these things, or if these tips still aren’t working for you, your best bet is to ask an Internet Marketing Specialist for help. An experts can review your internet marketing strategies and easily spot potential weaknesses and areas for improvement; saving you lots of time and frustration!

There also plenty of other ways to help you gain top search engine rankings. Many of which are specific to your specific industry. An Internet Marketing Expert can help you identify these opportunities and help you put together a plan to gain you top search rankings.

Best of all, putting an Internet Marketing Expert to work for you will generate more leads, in less time, and make you more money! So don’t be afraid to give us a call or send me an email and learn how we can help your business gain top search engine rankings, and increase your revenues for 2012!

Web Design Award 2012 – Presented by Web Hosting Search

Shawn — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:21:19 +0000

Borelli Designs is a web design firm in Reading PA, offering reliable and affordable web solutions for businesses of all sizes. It’s our pleasure to say we’ve been chosen by Webhostingsearch.com as one of the best web design firms in Reading PA for our innovative and affordable web solutions for all businesses.

Webhostingsearch picks quality firms to list on their site, as recommendations to website owners. Many of their listing decisions are based on user submissions, customer service evaluations etc. The main purpose of this is to find the companies that provide the best services around the globe.

A special thanks to the Webhostingsearch team for recognizing our work and presenting this web design award! It is our mission to continue providing reliable, scalable, and affordable web design solutions for all size businesses.

Local Merchants Kick off the New Year with a More Effective Gift Card Campaign

Shawn — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:06:04 +0000

Do you sell gift cards for your business? Are you interested in starting a gift card program for your business?

Now there’s an easier, more effective way to sell customized gift cards for your business. Meet CardCodez, our online gift card service for merchants.

CardCodez provides an easy way for merchants to sell gift cards online. And CardCodez allows you to create an unlimited number of customized gift cards to sell for your business.

Plus, CardCodez lets you sell both physical and digital gift cards, so you can deliver gift cards by mail or to a customers email.

And, CardCodez works with almost any point-of-sale system so that your gift cards can be scanned at your existing registers.

What’s more is CardCodez is extremely affordable: costing as little as 25¢ per gift card! That’s much better than the traditional costs of $1.25 per standard gift card!

So if you want to save time and money, reach more customers, and continues to expand your business to new heights, try CardCodez – our online gift card service for merchants!

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Merry Christmas from the Borelli Designs Team

Shawn — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:30:46 +0000

I wanted to take a moment this morning to wish everyone a Merry Christmas from myself and all of the Borelli Designs Team! I hope you enjoy spending some quality time with your family, friends, and loved ones today.

In the spirit of Christmas, we would like to present you with the gift of saving 10% on your next project with Borelli Designs through January of 2012! After all, Christmas is all about giving!

We hope our gift of savings can help you on your next web design, web development, or Internet marketing project. This offer is also valid on all of our software and online services, including our WordPress cloud hosting, gift card software, and our website building software.

Also, be sure to share this with your friend and colleagues on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to pass this gift onto them!

A Special Thanks

I also want to say thank you for your valued business and your support in 2011. Borelli Designs has made leaps and bounds this past year alone and we could not do it without the support of our valued customers and supporters!

Again, have a Merry Christmas and we’ll see you in 2012!

WordPress 3.3 Has Arrived With Some Stunning New Features

Shawn — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:07:46 +0000

WordPress has released its newest version, WordPress 3.3 which provides even more new features, better user interface, and a bit of a design facelift.

One of the most noticeable features in WordPress 3.3 is the new Toolbar, which combines the old header and admin bar into one new element. You’ll also notice the flyout out menus have been updated with a fresh new style. This new Toolbar will make it much easier to access elements of your WordPress 3.3 website when logged in.

Drag and Drop Media Upload

The most notable enhancement to the content editor, is the media upload feature, which automatically detects file types and allows drop-and-drag upload capabilities. This is one of our most anticipated new features as in previous WordPress versions it was easy to get confused as to which upload button you should be using per file (i.e. PDF, jpeg, mp3, etc). And how much easier is it to upload media by dragging and dropping into your WordPress website?!

There are a slue of other updates to the useability, functionality and aesthetics of WordPress version 3.3 which you’ll be able to explore with the new WordPress first-time tooltips and the dashboard welcome screen.

Before You Update to WordPress 3.3

Always backup your database and all your website files before you update to the new WordPress 3.3! We cannot stress this enough.

Too often we see people get excited about a new update and click the button to update without first backing up their website. If something were to go wrong during the WordPress update, you could lose all your hard work! So back up your site BEFORE you update!

WordPress Maintenance Free Network Updates

For those of you on the Borelli Designs Network, hosting your WordPress website with us, and have WordPress Website Maintenance plans with us, we will be testing the new WordPress 3.3 version over the next week or so and performing the WordPress updates to your website for you. As always, we will be performing WordPress updates on off-peak hours to ensure your website does not go down during high-traffic times.

If you’re not on the Borelli Designs Network or do not have WordPress Cloud Hosting with us, be sure to visit our WordPress Services page to learn more about how we can help make your WordPress website more accessible, reliable, and easier to manage.

Google Adds “Freshness Algorithm” to The Ever-Changing SEO Mix

Shawn — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:30:03 +0000

Google announced their new freshness algorithm in early November as yet another major change to their search ranking algorithm. This new change is expected to affect roughly 40% of all Google searches.

The new freshness algorithm aims to move the most recent, and still most relevant, search results to the top of the search engine results page. And it only makes sense from the searcher’s point of view.

Is Fresh Content More Relevant?

Have you ever tried searching for information in Google, only to find old and outdated articles? Like searching ‘best laptop computer this year’ to find an article that dates back 3 years ago?? Obviously this 3-year old article isn’t relevant to your search. So why should it come up as #1 in the rankings?

The new freshness algorithm should come as no surprise to those who have worked with Borelli Designs, met one of our team members at an event, or subscribed to our newsletter. We have always stressed the importance of updating your website content on a regular basis as part of your SEO campaign. This really wasn’t just some sales pitch!

Hopefully, the official announcement from the Google solidifies the fact that regularly updating your website and keeping your website content fresh can truly help you gain higher search engine rankings. And now it’s more important than ever before to monitor your keywords and search engine rankings to see where you rank compared to your competition.

So for those of you who keep your website content fresh and monitor your SEO, great job! For those that don’t, it’s time to consider keeping your content fresh before you drop out of the search engine rankings!

How to Create A Google+ Page For Your Business

Shawn — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:15:40 +0000

Today I’m going to walk you through how to can create a Google+ page for your business. It’s pretty easy and takes about 15 minutes or less. Best of all it can help you reach more customers, connect with colleagues, and increase the search engine rankings for your business!

By now you’re probably familiar of the Google+ Project which Google launched sometime over the summer. In short, the Google+ Project is a better way for us to connect, share, search and socialize while spending time on Google.

If you haven’t already created a Google+ profile I recommend you do that before trying to setup a Google+ page for your business.

Assuming you have a Google+ profile, lets start creating a Google+ page for your business.

1. Visit https://plus.google.com/pages/create

Again, I’m assuming you already have a Google+ profile. I haven’t tried this without one!

2. Pick your category

Google+ allows you to categorize your business page. Choose the category that best describes your business.

Choose a Google+ category that best describes your business

3. Add your info

This includes adding your business name, website, etc.

Add info to your Google+ business page

4. Click Create

Within a few moments your Google+ business page will be created! Now complete the final steps and start spreading the word!

Final Steps

Completing the final steps of creating your Google+ business page include adding a tagline describing your business and uploading a profile picture.

After these two things are complete, it’s time to start spreading the word about your new Google+ business page. Be sure to share your new page with friends and colleagues on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. You can also add a Google+ button to your website!

Once your page is created, you can start adding content, updating your profile, and adding more images. Be sure to update your Google+ business page with all of your other social business pages to ensure maximum web exposure.

Last but not least….

Add Borelli Designs to your circles by visiting our Google+ page and clicking the Add to circles button!

I hope this has been a helpful tutorial. Be sure to connect with us for more articles like this one!

WEEU Radio Advertising Campaign to Air in September

Shawn — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:40:23 +0000

Thanks to the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce and WEEU Radio Station, we will be airing our radio advertisements starting in September. Be sure to tune in to 830AM and listen for Borelli Designs air time!

We were a bit impatient to wait until our advertisements begin to air, so we decided to put together a short video to coincide with our radio advertisements. Take a look at our video advertisement below. The audio is courtesy WEEU Radio and graphics/animations we put together here at the Borelli Designs office.

If you’re interested in radio advertising for your business, visit the WEEU website to learn more information!