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SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a much buzzed about word these days with everyone knowing they need it, but not everyone knowing how to go about it. I recently performed a mere 2 hours of work on Studio3Music.com to make it more search friendly and was amazed at the outcome.

Studio3Music is a Kindermusik studio with multiple locations in the Seattle area. We wanted people looking for Kindermusikt to find Studio3. I referenced this article about SEO in wordpress and made the following changes to achieve #2 google ranking. Note that this is second only to Kindermusik International themselves!

Changed permalinks structure

Added appropriate meta descriptions and keywords in head

Added an invisible bit of text on the front page to describe the site and be more searchable by search engines

Added appropriate heading tags to denote important content titles

You may be saying, “No duh, that’s just common sense web design.” Or you may saying, “I have no clue what you are talking about, but #2 sounds good to me.” Either way, it goes to show that a website powered by WordPress can be a powerful tool to catch your audience online.

I should also note that these rankings are also influenced by Studio3′s prolific blogging and dedicated client base who provide backlinks, etc.

Check out the new site for Barbarians International. They needed a site that was appealing to young guys, worked with their logo and was easy to update without paying a web developer! I might jsut work myself out of a job here!

Features include:

• Dynamic banner
• Custom design
• Dynamic frontpage content
• Spam-proof contact form
• Mapping plugin

Check out the latest project at cedarhome.org. Some of the cool features:

• Custom design
• Logo update
• Sermon branding
• Rotating flash banner
• Multi-blog management using WordPress MU
• Feature ads
• Dynamic Google Calendar Support
• Podcasting
• News email subscribe

And much more! If you are in the market for a great church website, 410 can help!

After a joint development project between FourTen Creative (Scott’s part time job) and Northshore Baptist (Scott’s full-time job), the ConvergeNW site is live! The two developers somehow found a way to work well together…

ConvergeNW is the Northwest arm of Converge Worldwide, the new name for the Baptist General Conference. We provided a custom designed theme with lots of bells and whistles to reflect the vision of ConvergeNW and to provide tools for reaching churches in their conference. The ConvergeNW team is a small, hard-working group of three and this new site is easy to maintain and expand to provide valuable resources and timely information to their churches.

Check it out! 

Check out the new site for One Star LLC.

FourTen Creative provided one of our Small Business templates for professional looks, quick implementation, easy maintenance, and a great price.

One Star deals in custom home building -  primarily land acquisition.

Coming soon will be a focus on their non-profit widow ministry.

Check out the 11×17 trifold mailer for Impact Church of Redmond, Or. They requested a mass-mailer to promote the launch of their church plant launch. If you didn’t see it yet, their website is a FourTen project as well.

Project elements:

• mailer design
• companion postcard
• custom sermon series graphics
• companion poster design