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Page Speed is Important, Don’t Ignore it!

Page Speed: Let’s talk about it!

north fork business solutions increase page speed

If this is your website page speed, we need to talk.

OK, let’s talk about page speed. and how it affects your business website.

You probably spent a lot of time and money getting your business off the ground, and part of that was getting your website built and launched. Good Job! An online presence is one of the most important ways consumers will find out about your business.

I am sure your website looks amazing. You want to impress people with your business, and a good-looking website is sure to impress. But what happens if your bright and shiny website is slow to load fully? People are going to leave, and just as bad, the search engines will start lowering your placement in search results. All this proves that page speed is really important. Your website needs some SEO, which stands for search engine optimization.

Let’s see some results.

Let’s take a look at the website for North Fork Business Solutions: https://www.northfork.tech.

Not bad! Simple but pleasing design, informative, and the pages load really fast. Here is our score from Google’s PageSpeed Insights:

North Fork Business Solutions Page Speed Insights

94/100 is a great score! How fast is your website?

As you can see, this website ranks at 94% on the PageSpeed test, which Google considers to be very fast. Now we could have added more bells and whistles and slideshows and all kinds of really amazing visual eye-candy, but if you are anything like me, in 2019 if you have to wait for a page to load or even worse a single image to load, you are likely to close the site and look somewhere else. Do you want to risk losing business because your amazing looking website that you spent all this time and money on is too slow loading for potential customers? Page speed is REALLY IMPORTANT if you want to rank on Google and the other search engines.

North Fork Business Solutions takes page speed seriously. You should too! Whether you are looking for a comprehensive Search Engine Optimization package, or just a little help with page speed, we can help. Contact us today for a free quote.

The Importance of On-Page SEO

On Page SEOEvery business should have a website. It used to be that anything would work, even a one-page scan of your business card.  But today the competition in every industry is tougher than ever, which means just having a website is not enough. Your business website needs to be seen on page 1 of Google, and to get there you need on-page SEO.

Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a process by which you build or optimize the content of your website to be more attractive to search engines. SEO has changed over the years. It used to be, you picked your keywords and crammed them in to the content of each page of your site. But that doesn’t work anymore. These days, you need an SEO expert to guide you through best practices of what works and what does not work.

Here at North Fork Business Solutions, we are experts at SEO. On-page optimization is such a key factor in determining a website’s placement in search engine results, that you cannot afford to NOT do it. Your business website needs on-page SEO, and North Fork Business Solutions can help you with that.

North Fork Business Solutions has been doing web design in Suffolk County for close to 20 years. Our team of SEO experts have industry-leading experience, and have worked with some of the biggest companies in the business. Contact us today for a free consultation.

Watch out for these web design scams!

We get a lot of emails here at North Fork Business Solutions, and this is one we have seen a few times now. The person is interested in having some web design work done, and asks if you are interested. When you reply back that you are, you get an email with more information.  The funny thing about this one is that Gmail automatically flagged it as spam, so I had a heads up.

Here is the transcript:

 

linda cole <lindammy20@gmail.com>

1:16 PM (2 hours ago)

to sean
Hi, i would like to know if you can handle website development for a clothing store?

Get back to me so i can send you the details.

Thanks

And after I responded, here was the reply:

Thanks for getting in touch. I would like you to review the details and get back to me with any question you may have.

Here is the project details, well i have a small clothing business for both male and female which i run, now am trying to expand the business and i want you to build an informational website for it for advertisement and to increase my sales rate..

so i need you to check out this site but i need something more perfect than this if its possible http://www.missrebel.co.uk. the site would only be informational, so i need you to give me an estimate .The estimate should include hosting and i want the site to have not more than 5 pages ,since it is informational. I have a private project consultant, he has the text content, images and the logos for the site.

Note:

1. I want only English language
2. I don’t have a domain yet but i want the domain name as ELITEXCLUSIVEAPPARELS.COM
3. You will be updating the site for me.
4. I will be providing the images,logos and content for the site.
5. I want the site up and running before ending of next two month.
6. My budget is $3000 to $6000

Thanks,

This is pretty much word for word the same scam that has been going around for several years in the web design world. Not today, Satan!

If you are looking for honest, and affordable Long Island web design, please feel free to contact us for a free quote.

Now Offering eCommerce Solutions in Suffolk County!

ecommerce, woocommerce, wordpress, web design suffolk countyNorth Fork Business Solutions is proud to announce we are now offering eCommerce shopping cart solutions for our web design and development packages.  We have always offered this service, but we are now featuring WordPress + WooCommerce packages. This combination of WordPress and WooCommerce means our clients will have easy to manage websites with a robust shopping cart package that is sure to drive online traffic and sales to their business.

The WooCommerce shopping cart solution is built to work with WordPress, which means everything works the way it is supposed to.

North Fork Business Solutions has been building websites in Suffolk County for decades. We live locally on the east end of Long Island, and can manage every aspect of your online business.  If your business needs some web design or eCommerce help, feel free to contact us today for a free quote.

 

Suffolk County Web Design for Gabrielsen Farms!

A new website with e-commerce shopping cart – Suffolk County Web Design

Recently Madtempest teamed up with Peter Allen Associates and rebuilt and redesigned the online presence for Gabrielsen Farms, located out east on Long Island, in Suffolk County in Jamesport, NY. Prior to coming on board with Madtempest, Gabrielsen Farms had a very simple, very dated website. We handled every aspect of web development, from creating a new web hosting account, to transferring over all existing assets, new email boxes for staff members, to building and designing the website, and implementing the content management system and shopping cart and payment services.  Madtempest has been working in Suffolk County Web Design for over 20 years.

If you are looking to create a new web presence for your business utilizing WordPress and WooCommerce, please Contact Us today.

Brand new website for Goodale Farms!

It’s been a busy few months here at Madtempest Holdings, with lots of new work and web projects. We recently just launched a new website for Goodale Farms, based out of Riverhead, NY. In addition to being a traditional farm with lots of animals and a farm stand, Goodale Farms offers a home delivery program for a variety of products.  We were very excited to work on this project, and will be adding more features to the site in the coming weeks. Another fine example of Suffolk County Web Design by a local designer for a local business!

More information about our services, including Suffolk County IT Solutions, please feel free to Contact Us.

Now offering Suffolk County WordPress Help

Madtempest Holdings, Inc. has been working with WordPress since 2004, and we are proud to now offer Suffolk County WordPress help to new and existing clients. If you run a website built on the WordPress platform, we are experts in setup, development, and maintenance of your WordPress site. We can offer a custom design, or utilize one of the thousands of pre-built templates that are readily available. And with the built-in WordPress functionality, we can implement any number of plugins designed to provide your site with upgraded security, new feature-rich content, and of course give you the ease of mind knowing your site and database are backed up on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis.

So if you are building a new website, or are looking to have someone manage your existing WordPress site, I invite you to Contact Us today to discuss how Madtempest Holdings can help with all of your Suffolk County WordPress needs.

Lake Kanasatka Gifts – Greenhouse Farms Demo Site

Recently I was tasked with creating a demo site, something to showcase some features for a market we are looking to target, namely the greenhouses/farmers/growers located here on the east end of Long Island. This is another great WordPress/Woocommerce website design and shopping cart implementation.  So what does that have to do with Lake Kanasatka?  Nothing!

Years ago, my family would vacation up on Lake Kanasatka, in New Hampshire. It was so beautiful up there on the lake, and I had a brilliant idea to create a website selling Kanasatka-related merchandise. I never did get that site off the ground, but I have owned www.lakekanasatkagifts.com for quite a long time, and since I needed a URL for my demo site, I decided to use this one. It makes no sense, but for a test site that’s ok.

This is just a sample of what can be done with a nice clean design template coupled with a solid platform and a robust shopping cart system. If you own a business in Suffolk County and are looking for web design from a local expert, feel free to Contact Us.

Pixies: A Visual History Site Redesign

I was pretty sick for a few weeks recently, which was a perfect time to redesign the Pixies book website. It was something I’d wanted to do for a while, so not being able to talk on the phone or really go anywhere gave me the chance to do some new things with it.  I installed a new WordPress theme, set up a new WooCommerce cart system and really started from scratch.  I think the site looks great and really does a fine job of showcasing the book. What do you think?  www.pixiesbook.com

New Website for George Hernandez, CPA, PC

Sometimes we get so busy here at madtempest we forget to send out some updates! We recently started working on a brand new website for Huntington-based CPA, George Hernandez. Located on Carver Street, just off of Main Street in Huntington Village, George Hernandez, formerly of Frank Carollo and Associates, is starting fresh, but that does not mean he is new to the game. Mr. Hernandez has been providing financial and accounting services for many years. We here at madtempest are happy to be working with him, and wish him nothing but success. Check it out – www.huntingtonaccounting.com.

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