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Visit EliteCompServices.com today to find out how we can help your business market yourself and dominate your local market. The necessity for your business to have an outstanding online presence and website has never been greater. For this reason, many local business owners like you are trying their best to find digital marketing agencies that can assist them in their online business goals. However, those who have yet to work with a consultant or a marketing group have little idea on what exactly these types of companies do. So how does an online marketing and web design agency actually work? Using our agency as a case study, here’s how.  A digital marketing agency can bring your brand to the masses and ensure your image online is nothing short of impressive. However, you need to ensure that the agency is constantly aware of the current and historical online marketing industry statistics and trends as well as customer behavioral trends that affect your business. Trends they need to be aware of include Google algorithm updates and developments in mobile-friendly web design. Your agency must also be at the frontlines of the industry, constantly testing online marketing techniques based on research.  But more importantly, the online marketing and web design agency must have the desire to make your business much more successful.  Good Agencies Actually Listen No one knows your business and your goals more than you do. That’s why your agency must take the time to listen and understand your business, products, services, and who and where your customers and competitors are. They must take note of your past marketing activities to give us a clearer picture of how to help you. This is the intake stage and we use it to learn more about you. Engagement via In-depth Consultation When you are looking for a digital marketing agency, make sure they are a company that can provide a unique consulting experience to you. Though this experience can be achieved in many ways, the most effective is comprehensive consultation. Through extensive engagement, your agency can create a customized plan to expand your online presence and increase the attractiveness of your brand. We are proud to say that we are an agency that provides detailed consultation to our prospects. While the client gets to understand the value of the service they are looking to avail of, we also get something out of the consultation phase. We are able to better understand our prospect and their business – making it easier for us do all the technical work later on.  Effective Project Management If your agency cannot manage projects effectively, you’ll encounter great headaches in your partnership. Effective project management entails ample capacity because if the agency cannot handle the load you put on it, it will crack under pressure. See to it that the agency can scale with you and can prioritize your projects, big or small.  More importantly, ensure that your responsibilities in the project are clear are at the very start. This will improve management from the intake stage down to the completion stage. For instance, in a typical SEO campaign, some of our pre-launch responsibilities to you are: managing your marketing expectations, communicating our customer support structure, and giving you a list of the requirements you need to submit. On your end, you need to understand the goals of the campaign, abide by agreed upon communication methods / schedules, and submit the requirements we need to run your SEO campaign. If things like these are clear early on, the project will run smoothly.  Efficient Processes and Workflow Processes and workflow are usually built with time. What we can say is that we have been doing this for years and our processes and workflow are smooth and efficient enough to make the most of the time we spend together during the consultation and the intake. We also have sufficient experience to ensure smooth and fast movement of tasks from one stage to another up to the end of the project. Cycle Includes Continual Improvements  We follow a cycle beginning with an in-depth consultation to identify your needs and determine the best strategy for you. We then measure and analyze the results and listen to your feedback so that we can make our online marketing efforts for everyone a success. We develop our services continually as the online marketing landscape to ensure the best results, regardless of what service we run for you.  We take the time to listen to your needs through in-depth consultation, which we provide to clients before making any kind of service recommendation. And because we can deliver all these services to you, we’re confident we can help your local business succeed online. Call us today at (251) 414-7474 now or send us a message to schedule your free consultation on online marketing.

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 A new cyber virus spread from Ukraine to wreak havoc around the globe on Wednesday, crippling thousands of computers, disrupting ports from Mumbai to Los Angeles and halting production at a chocolate factory in Australia.

The virus is believed to have first taken hold on Tuesday in Ukraine where it silently infected computers after users downloaded a popular tax accounting package or visited a local news site, national police and international cyber experts said.

More than a day after it first struck, companies around the world were still wrestling with the fallout while cyber security experts scrambled to find a way to stem the spread.

Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) said it was struggling to process orders and shift cargoes, congesting some of the 76 ports around the world run by its APM Terminals subsidiary.

U.S. delivery firm FedEx Corp (FDX.N) said its TNT Express division had been significantly affected by the virus, which also wormed its way into South America, affecting ports in Argentina operated by China's Cofco.

The malicious code locked machines and demanded victims post a ransom worth $300 in bitcoins or lose their data entirely, similar to the extortion tactic used in the global WannaCry ransomware attack in May.

More than 30 victims paid up but security experts are questioning whether extortion was the goal, given the relatively small sum demanded, or whether the hackers were driven by destructive motives rather than financial gain.

Hackers asked victims to notify them by email when ransoms had been paid but German email provider Posteo quickly shut down the address, a German government cyber security official said.

Ukraine, the epicenter of the cyber strike, has repeatedly accused Russia of orchestrating attacks on its computer systems and critical power infrastructure since its powerful neighbor annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014.

The Kremlin, which has consistently rejected the accusations, said on Wednesday it had no information about the origin of the global cyber attack, which also struck Russian companies such as oil giant Rosneft (ROSN.MM) and a steelmaker.

"No one can effectively combat cyber threats on their own, and, unfortunately, unfounded blanket accusations will not solve this problem," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

  A computer virus, much like a flu virus, is designed to spread from host to host and has the ability to replicate itself. Similarly, in the same way that viruses cannot reproduce without a host cell, computer viruses cannot reproduce and spread without programming such as a file or document.

 In more technical terms, a computer virus is a type of malicious code or program written to alter the way a computer operates and that is designed to spread from one computer to another. A virus operates by inserting or attaching itself to a legitimate program or document that supports macros in order to execute its code. In the process a virus has the potential to cause unexpected or damaging effects, such as harming the system software by corrupting or destroying data.

How does a computer virus attack?

Once a virus has successfully attached to a program, file, or document, the virus will lie dormant until circumstances cause the computer or device to execute its code. In order for a virus to infect your computer, you have to run the infected program, which in turn causes the virus code to be executed. This means that a virus can remain dormant on your computer, without showing major sings or symptoms. However, once the virus infects your computer, the virus can infect other computers on the same network. Stealing passwords or data, logging keystrokes, corrupting files, spamming your email contacts, and even taking over your machine are just some of the devastating and irritating things a virus can do.

While some viruses can be playful in intent and effect, others can have profound and damaging effects, such as erasing data or causing permanent damage to your hard disk, and worst yet, some are even design with financial gains in mind.

How do computer viruses spread?

In today’s constantly connected world you can contract a computer virus in many ways, some more obvious than others. Viruses can be spread through email and text message attachments, Internet file downloads, social media scam links, and even your mobile devices and smartphones can become infected with mobile viruses through shady App downloads. Viruses can hide disguised as attachments of socially shareable content such as funny images, greeting cards, or audio and video files.

To avoid contact with a virus it’s important to exercise caution when surfing the web, downloading files, and opening links or attachments. As a best practice, never download text or email attachments that you’re not expecting, or files from websites you don’t trust.

How to protect against computer viruses?

As you can see, just like a vicious flu virus, a computer virus is something that you want to avoid. The terms virus and malware are often used interchangeably; however, a virus is one of many types of malware, and only one aspect of the overall threat landscape. As a result, traditional antivirus software alone will not fully protect you from all threats.

Instead, look into comprehensive security software like Norton Security. With patented technologies that work together to outsmart online threats, scanning your system for viruses, and running continuous automatic silent updates, but even its possible to get infected, just like how you wash your hands and take vitamin C and yet somehow every now and then you still get sick.

 Many times, the more common viruses are those known as the trojan virus, just like the trojan horse they sneak in looking like something else then infect you when you’re not expecting it.

Sometimes you may never even know you have a virus, they can lay dormmate as never show up on a security sweep but they are they are they spy on what you do, bank cards you use, passwords you use etc.

 Its best to have your PC fully inspected, cleaned and optimized every 3 months, this finds those viruses you don’t even know you have and keeps your PC fast and reduces the chance of having crashes.

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If you ask someone, they’ll tell you Web 2.0 as we know it is probably on its way out the door. For many, Web 2.0 is characterized mainly by the ability of users to share information quickly with others, which has been developed into the phenomenon that we call social media.

From Twitter to Facebook to YouTube and to all sorts of other kinds of communities, Web 2.0 is all about sharing and seeing. Now if you recall or were around during what is now known as Web 1.0, information was put up on a website and that was it–the best way of sharing it was privately through e-mails and such.

 and if you wanted information, you had to go to the source for it. Can you imagine such a harsh internet? Now with Web 2.0 on it’s way out, the obvious question is, what in the world is Web 3.0 going to be?

 What is Web 3.0?

it’s hard to imagine how the internet is going to top sites like Twitter and Facebook. But it’s bound to happen and when you research Web 3.0, you find out it is going to be synonymous with the user’s interaction with the web.

In Web 2.0 we focused on the users’ interaction with others, now we are going to focus more on the users themselves, which is always a plus. But how is this going to happen?

  Web 3.0 is being referred to by experts as the semantic web; semantic meaning data driven. The data will come from the user and the web will essentially adjust to meet the needs of the user. For example, if you do a lot of searching for ‘design blogs’, you’ll receive more advertisements related to design.

Also, when you search for other things, for example, ‘computers’, the web will keep in mind that you often search for design and may pull up search queries that combine ‘design’ and ‘computers’.

  Benefits of Web 3.0?

 A huge benefit of Web 3.0 is the move towards being able to access data from anywhere. This is mainly being driven by the heavy usage of smart phones and cloud applications.

The idea here is to make sure that the user can access as much data as possible from anywhere, not just their home. Technology is trying to expand this idea in ways that allow TV’s to pick up on user data, and allowing smart phones to access data on your computer.

For those like myself who typically forget their jump drives, this is an amazing and useful advancement!

Web 3.0’s Effect on Design

 So now that you have an idea of what Web 3.0 is and what it’s going to be, we have to ask the most important question for us: what does that mean for design? Web 2.0 design was based around drawing attention and persuading your audience, because after all, web 2.0 made a huge deal about being able to purchase things online.

Web 2.0 wanted to generate excitement and get people to make a purchase and understand what they were doing. You want to make a purchase? Sure, then click this button. You want to join the mailing list? Great, then there’s no question about clicking this button. That is the basis of Web 2.0 design.

Other elements were added to make things more fun and give a bit of style. The usage of linear gradients in web 2.0 is almost necessary.

Whatever color combination you desire, linear gradients are typically present from your background to your buttons. Other trends surfaced like various badges, rounded corners and a necessary usage of icons. But again, the question remains, what can we expect for web 3.0?

 Web 3.0 is still in its infancy, so unfortunately to know what it is will require waiting.

 But Stay tuned we will bring updates as they come and I promise if you have any kind of business and do your own marketing you MUST be ready for the “script to flip” at a moment’s notice or you will be left behind, Just like when google took over YouTube and then completely redesigned SEO (My personal opinion was this was the start of web 3.0) people that couldn’t keep up got left behind, many online company’s went out of business and the store front company’s lost a lot of business because the marketers who was ready and could adapt to the change became the “top dogs” of the online world.

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You have seen the ads. For just 99 cents, you can get a domain. For $9.99 per month, you can start your own website. But what have you found? Have you found your business is not getting Internet sales? Are you somewhere on page 100 in the Google search engine? A myriad of work goes into creating a website that is worthy of Google's first page. If you want this ranking, you need to be smarter rather than work harder.

It takes starting out correctly with your website. There will be trial and error. Most of all, a magic solution does not exist. Any place that is offering something for very little is going to make you work harder to get what you desire for your website. Any company offering to sell you links to improve your website is going to damage it.

Did you know Google makes about 500 changes to its algorithm each year? Imagine what these changes are going to do for your website ranking, particularly when Google is attempting to make the user experience superb. Google's mission is to ensure when anyone conducts a search in Google, they see the results they want on the first couple of pages.

Search engine optimization (SEO) has greatly changed even in the last five years. Ten years ago it was about keywords. The more keywords you used the better. A slow shift toward quality content began and is now in full effect. If you spam your articles with keywords but have low quality content, you will be penalized. If you try to trick Google, you will end up in the black hole for Internet websites.

The battle over SEO practices is over. It’s been a long fight, but Google has won, and shady SEO agencies have been left to drag their wounded link farms and keyword-stuffed pages from the proverbial battlefield.

Google’s victory has been so sound, in fact, that they’ve remade an entire industry and turned their former enemies into allies. Rather than working tirelessly to trick search engines, modern SEO practices more or less work for Google — fighting spam (instead of producing it) and creating great content for Google to dish up to their users.

This doesn’t mean that SEO is dead (despite all the click-bait and misinformation to the contrary). It has simply, finally, matured. Understanding how Google has shaped the current SEO landscape is the first step to taking full advantage of search in promoting a brand.

A Brief History Of The Battle For SEO

Just over a decade ago, SEO was a cloudy concept — a hazy mashup of overseas chop shops and questionable link-building practices, with a few genuine optimizers scattered among them. Most SEOs did whatever it took to move websites up the rankings on Google search results, which led to gray- and black-hat tactics essentially spamming Google’s search bots.

Google fought back, developing smarter algorithms to counter the cheap tricks that SEOs were pulling to make their sites look good. It was “us vs. them,” and it was cutthroat.

The melee created a dangerous environment for brands and businesses. It was difficult to determine which strategy to invest in, which SEO agencies had a proven track record (or were even telling the truth about their practices), and how to realize actual SEO wins or losses.

Fast-forward to 2015, and none of those tricks work anymore. Worse still, many can get a website slammed with penalties that actually damage rankings. Any agency worth its salt will agree that SEO needs to be part of a holistic effort to build a brand online via great content (which helps Google) and a good user experience (which also helps Google).

Google’s Goal: Total Domination

I think Larry and Sergey realized early on that they would never be able to destroy the SEO industry. They saw that as long as search engines send organic (unpaid) visitors to websites, brands and businesses will do whatever they can to get their sites noticed. So instead of trying to take out the SEOs, Google’s goal from the start has been to either convince or coerce SEOs into creating a modern internet Google’s way.

And they did it. Google has essentially shaped the entire SEO community to their own benefit through three key strategies.

 To sum things up a bit,

We all know we live in a tech filed world and a world where tech is growing and evolving faster and faster i mean think about it the first iPhone came out 10 years and 1 month ago.... Think back to that first iPhone and the one you hold in your hands now, its a lot different right? So wouldn't it be silly and honestly foolish to believe that the websites you use to use during the launch of the first ever iPhone and the all new iPhone 7 would be just as different?

Well if you agreed with me then you're wrong... didnt see that coming did you (Just making sure you're paying attention)

But seriously to think the iPhone and the website has had the same evolved rate is very wrong, the domain Google.com was first registered in 1997, the iPhone in 2007 and in case you have forgotten we are in 2017

The iPhone is loved by some and hated by some, Google is the world leader in searches, When you want someone to look something up on the web you say? Google it! Now when you start telling your friends to iPhone you instead of call me i will start to believe the gap between google and apple may be closing until then i would under that google is leading the online world and is ever evolving to the point where it is almost impossible to keep up to date on how their search engines work.

 So yes you can go get you a brand spanking new website for with taxes and fees and add on's about $30 to $40 and it will be basic, no excitement and you will be on page 100 if you're lucky, not to mention the time you will spend actually building the site.

 Or you can have a professional do it, yes it costs more (Don't you always get what you pay for? I've never seen Rib Eye on the $9.99 menu) but with a professional company you will not invest a bunch of your valuable time, you will not pull your hair out trying to figure out why you cant even find your own site and the better website construction company's track your site, basically this means we watch for how and when your site is viewed, what your customer do on your site, how long they stay etc, and we use this to continually to evolve your site and SEO just like google, if you launch a website and think its like your sign outside that once its up its getting your name out you have made yet another fatal online mistake.

 If you really want to make it big in the online world click Here and learn more.

  Thank you for reading i hope you found this helpful, I wish you the best in the new online world of Web 3.0

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Building a website and getting found

You have seen the ads. For just 99 cents, you can get a domain. For $9.99 per month, you can start your own website. But what have you found? Have you found your business is not getting Internet sales? Are you somewhere on page 100 in the Google search engine? A myriad of work goes into creating a website that is worthy of Google's first page. If you want this ranking, you need to be smarter rather than work harder.

It takes starting out correctly with your website. There will be trial and error. Most of all, a magic solution does not exist. Any place that is offering something for very little is going to make you work harder to get what you desire for your website. Any company offering to sell you links to improve your website is going to damage it.

Did you know Google makes about 500 changes to its algorithm each year? Imagine what these changes are going to do for your website ranking, particularly when Google is attempting to make the user experience superb. Google's mission is to ensure when anyone conducts a search in Google, they see the results they want on the first couple of pages.

Search engine optimization (SEO) has greatly changed even in the last five years. Ten years ago it was about keywords. The more keywords you used the better. A slow shift toward quality content began and is now in full effect. If you spam your articles with keywords but have low quality content, you will be penalized. If you try to trick Google, you will end up in the black hole for Internet websites.

The battle over SEO practices is over. It’s been a long fight, but Google has won, and shady SEO agencies have been left to drag their wounded link farms and keyword-stuffed pages from the proverbial battlefield.

Google’s victory has been so sound, in fact, that they’ve remade an entire industry and turned their former enemies into allies. Rather than working tirelessly to trick search engines, modern SEO practices more or less work for Google — fighting spam (instead of producing it) and creating great content for Google to dish up to their users.

This doesn’t mean that SEO is dead (despite all the click-bait and misinformation to the contrary). It has simply, finally, matured. Understanding how Google has shaped the current SEO landscape is the first step to taking full advantage of search in promoting a brand.

A Brief History Of The Battle For SEO

Just over a decade ago, SEO was a cloudy concept — a hazy mashup of overseas chop shops and questionable link-building practices, with a few genuine optimizers scattered among them. Most SEOs did whatever it took to move websites up the rankings on Google search results, which led to gray- and black-hat tactics essentially spamming Google’s search bots.

Google fought back, developing smarter algorithms to counter the cheap tricks that SEOs were pulling to make their sites look good. It was “us vs. them,” and it was cutthroat.

The melee created a dangerous environment for brands and businesses. It was difficult to determine which strategy to invest in, which SEO agencies had a proven track record (or were even telling the truth about their practices), and how to realize actual SEO wins or losses.

Fast-forward to 2015, and none of those tricks work anymore. Worse still, many can get a website slammed with penalties that actually damage rankings. Any agency worth its salt will agree that SEO needs to be part of a holistic effort to build a brand online via great content (which helps Google) and a good user experience (which also helps Google).

Google’s Goal: Total Domination

I think Larry and Sergey realized early on that they would never be able to destroy the SEO industry. They saw that as long as search engines send organic (unpaid) visitors to websites, brands and businesses will do whatever they can to get their sites noticed. So instead of trying to take out the SEOs, Google’s goal from the start has been to either convince or coerce SEOs into creating a modern internet Google’s way.

And they did it. Google has essentially shaped the entire SEO community to their own benefit through three key strategies.

 To sum things up a bit,

We all know we live in a tech filed world and a world where tech is growing and evolving faster and faster i mean think about it the first iPhone came out 10 years and 1 month ago.... Think back to that first iPhone and the one you hold in your hands now, its a lot different right? So wouldn't it be silly and honestly foolish to believe that the websites you use to use during the launch of the first ever iPhone and the all new iPhone 7 would be just as different?

Well if you agreed with me then you're wrong... didnt see that coming did you (Just making sure you're paying attention)

But seriously to think the iPhone and the website has had the same evolved rate is very wrong, the domain Google.com was first registered in 1997, the iPhone in 2007 and in case you have forgotten we are in 2017

The iPhone is loved by some and hated by some, Google is the world leader in searches, When you want someone to look something up on the web you say? Google it! Now when you start telling your friends to iPhone you instead of call me i will start to believe the gap between google and apple may be closing until then i would under that google is leading the online world and is ever evolving to the point where it is almost impossible to keep up to date on how their search engines work.

 So yes you can go get you a brand spanking new website for with taxes and fees and add on's about $30 to $40 and it will be basic, no excitement and you will be on page 100 if you're lucky, not to mention the time you will spend actually building the site.

 Or you can have a professional do it, yes it costs more (Don't you always get what you pay for? I've never seen Rib Eye on the $9.99 menu) but with a professional company you will not invest a bunch of your valuable time, you will not pull your hair out trying to figure out why you cant even find your own site and the better website construction company's track your site, basically this means we watch for how and when your site is viewed, what your customer do on your site, how long they stay etc, and we use this to continually to evolve your site and SEO just like google, if you launch a website and think its like your sign outside that once its up its getting your name out you have made yet another fatal online mistake.

 If you really want to make it big in the online world click Here and learn more.

  Thank you for reading i hope you found this helpful, I wish you the best in the new online world of Web 3.0