Category Archives: Fishing Web Design & SEO

What makes a great fishing guide/charter website?

Features of a great Fishing Website

Photos
As in many industries online, pictures sell. A clean, frequently updated photo gallery of all the gamefish in your backyard is the surest way to make anglers salivate. Don’t forget to bring the camera on outings, you don’t want to miss that monster that your client just dragged [...]

350+ Facebook Fans in a Week

Social Media, Social Networking, Facebook

New Fishing Guide Website

We are pleased to announce the launch of Carolina Beach Fishing Charters, Atta Buoy Charter’s new home on the world wide web.  The site includes:

Search Engine Optimization
Custom NOAA weather report feed
What’s Biting Calendar
Content Management system including Fishing Reports Blog
All the usual goodies for our fishing sites

Here are some screen shots from the new site:

New Big Game Fishing Webiste

Sometimes working is just a blast!  Such was the case in creating Black & Blue Fishing Club’s new home on the world wide web.  Features inlcude sheduling management, tag cloud & other SEO goodies, fishing reports blog, flash header rotation, and others – but do be sure and check out their fishing photo gallery!
Screenshot:

The Worst SEO Mistake You Can Make

My hats off Brandt Dainow for a great primer on SEO Step 1 for any business. The guy has been doing search engine marketing for over 12 years, which is a lifetime in this business.
First, why SEO over other marketing such as PPC?
Pay-per-click advertising is all very well, but it means you have to [...]

Google Learns Flash

I love Flash, I really do.
But as primarily a SEO firm, we’ve been steering clients away from flash based websites for years due to the fact that Google, Yahoo!, and MSN couldn’t index their content. By content, I mean written text, images, and of course links among other website elements.

It appears the Game is [...]

New: Fishing Report Syndication Service

Post your fishing report to 12 websites with one email!
We have just launched our new fishing report syndication service, which allows fishing guides and charter services to get their fishing report posted to twelve fishing report websites by simply sending an email. Find out how it works, builds traffic, and helps establish great search [...]

8 Ways to Monetize your Hunting or Fishing Website

Internet advertising revenue is exploding across the web, while print and traditional media advertising is losing traction.  Want to be part of the party?  Here’s eight ways to earn cash by advertising on your hunting, fishing, or outdoors related website.

Pay Per Click (PPC) Ads
Google Adsense is the grandaddy, but Yahoo and Microsoft offer PPC [...]

Does Your Website Look Good? Are You Sure?

Unfortunately, websites display differently on different computers. What may look perfect on your setup, may look horrible on others. The obvious problem with this, is that many of your customers may be running any of them. Websites layout differently due do different browsers, operating systems, as well as the actual website encoding [...]

24 Fishing and Hunting Directories

Submitting your guide service or outfitter to directory websites is a good idea for two reasons:
First, because many of these sites come up in major search engines for a variety of phrases, which can lead potential clients to your website. Second, it can help build your search engine rankings by giving you high quality, [...]

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