Let’s be honest: customer reviews can make or break a business faster than a Saints fan can argue over a referee call. People trust them. Search engines trust them. And if used correctly, reviews don’t just sit there looking pretty on Google or Yelp — they actually boost SEO and paid ad campaigns. That’s right,...
After more than two decades of running a web design and marketing company in New Orleans, I’ve seen small business owners try just about everything to get attention. Some of those ideas worked, some didn’t, and a few belonged in the “what were you thinking?” category. One thing that consistently works—when done right—is the humble...
By Brett Thomas, Owner of Rhino Web Studios, New Orleans, LA In the early 1930s, the world was a mess. The stock market had tanked, banks were folding like cheap lawn chairs, and the unemployment line stretched longer than a Mardi Gras parade. It was called the Great Depression for a reason—because everything kinda...
By Brett Thomas, Owner of Rhino Web Studios – New Orleans, LA Let’s talk about homepages—the digital welcome mat of a business. The homepage is where attention spans go to die… unless the design, layout, and copy do their job. Most visitors give a website about three seconds before deciding whether to click something or...
By Brett Thomas, Owner of Rhino Web Studios, New Orleans, LA Let’s get this out of the way: most websites aren’t broken because they’re ugly. They’re broken because they don’t do their job. And the job of a homepage is not to “look good.” It’s to turn visitors into leads, customers, calls, appointments, or at...
By Brett Thomas, Owner of Rhino Web Studios, New Orleans, LA If you’re running a local business and you’re not paying attention to “near me” searches, it’s kind of like trying to win a boxing match with one hand tied behind your back. And not your dominant hand either — I’m talking the one you...
If someone told me ten years ago that search engines would one day favor cat videos over carefully crafted website copy, I probably would’ve rolled my eyes and gone back to obsessing over page speed and meta tags. But here we are—video content is taking over the digital marketing world, and it’s doing it without...
By Brett Thomas, President and CEO of Rhino Web Studios Hello, web enthusiasts and curious onlookers! It’s me, Brett Thomas, your friendly neighborhood web guru and self-proclaimed fortune teller of the internet world. As we wave goodbye to 2023, let’s peek through the digital keyhole into 2024. Brace yourselves; it’s going to be a wild,...
Alright, digital denizens, it’s Brett Thomas back again—chief rhino at Rhino Web Studios. I’m here to spill the proverbial beans on what web development will look like in the grand old year of 2024, now with extra seasonings of Google’s E-A-T principles and a generous sprinkle of AI for SEO. Buckle up; it’s going to...
Over the last month or so, I have been getting lots of calls from clients (and potential clients) about how their web site’s Google rankings have been slipping…sometimes drastically. Never fear! Your Website Hero is on the job! I have prepared Google’s Helpful Content Update Report for your information and education about why (and how...
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