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At Big Fish Local, we love to develop websites from scratch and fiddle with ideas until we find the right one to suit your company’s needs and business goals. However, if you have an existing website and simply want to develop a better outline, we also offer suggestions and analytics on how to increase user engagement and generate more organic traffic to your site.

Our website development plan includes a custom professional website that is designed and optimized for the best customer experience. Your website is the backbone of your company and usually the first representation of your business for online clients. It needs to be an engaging piece of content with elements that excite and inform users of how you can solve their immediate problems.

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  • Website Design/Development ·

4 Website Design Tips

Are you a small business owner considering launching a new (or revamped) website?  Awesome, we’d love to help you with that! However, we also understand there are  times you may need to handle it yourself. That’s why we’ve put together this list of 4  website design tips to guide you along the way.  Images are important…  …and in more ways than you may realize. The…
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  • SEO ·

4 Easy SEO Tips you Can Implement Today

Developing an effective SEO strategy for your website doesn’t have to be stressful. It’s true that Google and other search engines routinely update their algorithms. These changes are meant to produce better search engine results. Sometimes, the updates require a rethinking of your approach. However, these four easy SEO tips will stand the test of time even as search engines make continuous changes to how…
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  • Digital Marketing ·

Tips for Marketing Success

Marketing success is top of mind for all companies. Getting your message in front of the right people takes time and effort as well as careful planning. In addition, the rules of marketing continue to change with the launch of newer platforms (such as TikTok) or ongoing changes within search engine algorithms. In addition, offline marketing rules are considerably different than how they were even…
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Ways to Improve Your Social Media Presence

Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to improve your social media presence? Of course it is — it simply takes some proactive planning and strategy development. Today, we’re going to unpack five ways to improve your social media presence. However, as a sixth bonus tip before we even get started, we want to encourage you to consider the importance of a paid advertising social…
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  • SEO ·

How Can SEO Improve Sales?

Every brand wants to grow its exposure. For profit-based businesses, this almost universally means that they need to improve sales. Even non-profit organizations understand the importance of building a robust SEO strategy through initiatives such as those designed to boost donor awareness. But how exactly can SEO improve sales? Here are six considerations to keep in mind as you plan your 2023 SEO strategy. SEO…
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  • SEO ·

Black Hat SEO Tactics: What Are They and Why Should They Be Avoided?

Are you attempting to execute your own SEO? You may have already realized that it’s a tough thing to learn alone. For a start, a lot of the advice online is outdated or contradictory. There’s also a risk that you’re given bad advice and you end up using black hat tactics.  If you’re not sure what black hat tactics are and how they could affect…
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  • Digital Marketing ·

5 Reasons Churches Should Embrace Digital Marketing

If you associate digital marketing with the cutthroat world of business then you’d probably never consider how it could serve a church. However, you may be surprised to learn that many churches are embracing digital marketing, having realized what it can achieve for their organizations.  Read on for 5 reasons that churches should be cultivating an online presence and making the most of these tools.…
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9 Social Media Indicators of Success

If you’re spending time on your business’ social media presence, you want to be sure that you’re making progress, not wasting your time.  Here are 10 signs that your hard work is paying off, and some tips to try if you’re not quite generating the results you want. Like a share, a mention can expose your business to brand new audiences. Customers can become unofficial…
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  • Digital Marketing ·

5 Digital Marketing Strategies for Summer

It’s almost summer! With the right digital marketing strategies, you’ll be able to turn the heat up and make a splash this season.  We asked our team to come up with some fun-in-the-sun ideas to keep your online presence cool over summer. Here is what they suggested. Even if your products and services aren’t particularly seasonal, you can always take advantage of bright, sunny motifs…
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  • SEO ·

The Dangers of “Cheap” SEO

At Big Fish Local, we help small businesses become the big fish in their pond. However, we understand that they don’t always have a big budget to spend on SEO services. Sometimes clients approach us because they’ve been disappointed by SEO services they’ve used in the past. Usually this is because they went for the cheapest option possible with little regard for quality.  Remember, it…
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  • Marketing Strategies ·

SEO or PPC: Which is More Effective?

Every business, big or small, has a limit to their digital marketing budget. That means people want to invest where they’ll see the most return on investment. This leads many of our clients to ask whether it’d be better for them to pay for search engine optimization or run PPC advertising campaigns.  The answer depends on their circumstances and goals, but in reality, these digital…
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What Should a Small Business Post on Social Media?

These days, you don’t have to pay for big billboards to attract your audience’s attention. You can access them for free using popular social media platforms.  Your first step should be to choose the right platforms for your business. Once you’ve done that, though, you’ll face an even greater challenge: deciding on the content you want to share. Planning Social Media Content We’d always advise…
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