12 Ways to get higher in Google

BEFORE YOU READ THEM, HERE ARE SOME KEY TERMS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Targeted/Strategic keywords-The keywords you want your customer search to find your company. An example is “web design greenville sc” or “restaurants greer sc”
Content-What’s on your page-everything from images to text.
Sitemap-Includes all the pages you want indexed in search engines. Usually written in XML language.
Index-In [...]

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Real Estate Listing Photo Taking Tips – Exterior Photographs

THE PROBLEM PHOTO:
ALL of us have seen this photo that is low resolution, highly compressed under exposed with the house on the hill looking like it is a pyramid because the photo was taken with the wrong settings and at a bad angle! I am here to give you some tips on creating photos that [...]

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Gift Certificates aren’t just for retailers

Take a page from large retailers and offer your customers gift certificates! Gift Certificates work great around the holidays for those hard to buy people and you can take advantage of it. The best part is any business can create them using Microsoft Publisher or any word processor! Microsoft has quite a few templates on [...]

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6 ways to saving money on your logo design

So you are starting a business and need a logo design! Great. The only problem is you’ve spent your start up money on other parts of the business. How can you have a logo designed without taking out another loan?
TIP #1 – BE PREPARED! (this is the most important tip and the other tips fall [...]

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Screen Printing STEP BY STEP

I created this graphic awhile back to illustrate the screen printing process and help my customers understand the process. Screen printing is one of the simplest printing process, but it is probably the one that requires the most imagination to get to the end result.
I get a few calls a month asking to do one [...]

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Offset Lithography Explained (most marketing materials are printed this way)

The most popular printing method for small business marketing materials is offset lithography. This is a little guide to the process. It’s not suppose to make you an expert but it will help you understand the jargon of printers and graphic designers.
DESIGNING IT
You first have to start out with a design which is made in [...]

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Let the bloggin’ begin!

Welcome to the blog of Photo Graphics and owner Calvin Hanson.
I will post my most up to date designs, articles on graphic design and marketing for small business, designs under construction, finished design pieces like logos, business cards, websites, and anything under the realm of graphic design. Feel free to use it for inspiration, [...]

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