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The New Front Door to Your Business
We’ve been saying for years that your Google Business Profile is the front door to your business, and updates to your profile are more important than ever.
- Post updates, photos, and Q&A’s regularly that give AI something new to work with. Stale profiles don’t get recommended as often
- Add new and fresh videos regularly
- Change or tweak your website message regularly
- Ask for positive reviews from customers and contacts
- Verify and change keywords, as the best ones change over time
- Always remember there is also Bing running parallel with Google, and it is worthwhile adding and keeping it fresh, as well
It takes a lot of time investment to keep a top performing website on top, and even more to orient a poor performing site to achieve top ranking. We offer monthly maintenance services that will help to increase your Google and Bing rankings. Call and lets discuss how to achieve this for your website.
Here are some handy code snipets to add to the html code of your web site:
TO ADD THE YEAR (and it auto updates based upon the year set on your local computer)
<script type=”text/javascript”>var d = new Date();document.write(d.getFullYear());>
TO ADD THE COPYRIGHT CHARACTER ©
©
CODE TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER (editing my information and inserting yours)
Copyright © script type=”text/javascript”>var d = new Date();document.write(d.getFullYear());
<a href=”https://ameriwebhosting.com/” target=”_blank”>Designed and Managed by Ameriweb Hosting – Plainfield, IL>
WILL DISPLAY AS:
Copyright © 2025 Designed and Managed by Ameriweb Hosting – Plainfield, IL
We have hundreds of different snippets we rely on in our coding tasks. Need something specific? Contact us and we will see if we can find what you need.
Sylvan Goldman, the Oklahoma grocer who invented the shopping cart in 1937, had a problem that prevented him from increasing sales at his store. The women who frequented Goldman’s stores (and in the 1930s, they were mostly women) stopped buying when their hand baskets were full. I can imagine Goldman sitting in his office after a long Saturday, thinking about the problem and thinking, “How can I grow my business by making it easier for these women to shop?”
With a larger basket, his customers could buy more things. Since the basket would be too heavy to lift, Goldman put it on wheels, using a folding chair for the frame. His “prototype” was a bit bulky, but Goldman thought it was good enough for a market test.
Like most entrepreneurs, Goldman found that his target market was extremely resistant to change. He studied his customers’ complaints: women said the cart reminded them of a baby stroller, and men objected because pushing a cart didn’t seem “manly enough.”
Convinced he had a good idea, Goldman hired men and women to push the carts. He also added an assistant to offer the carts to customers at the entrance to the store. It worked. The carts caught on, Goldman patented his invention, and made enough money to become one of Oklahoma’s multimillionaire philanthropists.
Goldman also sought to grow his business by offering better service to his customers. And like any successful entrepreneur, he had a solid exit strategy, licensing his shopping cart patent to a company that improved the product to the telescoping baskets we use today.
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A few years ago, when newspapers realized that Google News and Craig’s List were eating their lunch, the bean counters in charge started to cut costs.
One of the ways they did that was to slash editorial budgets.
Content is content, they said. We can share content between papers.
So that’s why you started seeing articles in your local newspaper about distant towns. Or auto ads in the classifieds for cars that were 200 miles away from you.
The bean counters were happy.
But…
…it accelerated the downward death spiral that newspapers were battling.
Some very smart and experienced people say we are looking at a deep business decline, and you should cut business costs to survive. Others say the economy will continue as it is, challenging but workable.
My own opinion (no I am not one of those very smart and experienced people, but I do monitor trends carefully) is as business owners we ALWAYS should be monitoring costs, cutting fat while not trimming the muscle that propels our businesses.
While others are cutting advertising, marketing, payroll and the muscle of their business, a smart business owner will keep their business in front of existing customers and new prospects. Day after day. Week after week.
I am of the opinion a web site is the muscle of your business, reminding your existing customers you are still around and ready to take care of them, and prospects a place to discover you exist and to learn more about you. The cost is minimal in the grand scheme of things.
Consider adding to your marketing, especially if we are approaching a downturn. AmeriWeb Hosting can help boost your web site responses. We are SEO experts. Our goal is to make your phone ring, and we’re pretty darn good at it. Call or email for more information.
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Did you ever want to know what you’d look like in a blister pack? Introducing Ameri-Man , not coming to a store near you!
ChatGPT now lets you make an AI action figure of yourself, complete with accessories and blister pack packaging. So let your businessworkload slide for a few minutes and become that super hero we all secretly want to be. You know you want to!
Just upload a selfie, type in a prompt and boom: You’re a 1:6 scale collectible. You
can even list accessories, like sunglasses, a belt or in my case a sword and shield.
To try it, type something like: “Use this photo of me to create an action figure of myself inside a blister pack, styled like a high-end collectible toy. The figure should be standing upright with a smile. The blister packaging should say ‘[ACTION FIGURE NAME]’ and this underneath:
‘[SUBHEADING]’. Add accessories inside compartments such as: [LIST OF ACCESSORIES].”
Warning: Free users only get three prompts a day, so use them wisely. Or
turn yourself into a cowboy three times. No one’s judging.
Optimizing images for the web is crucial for enhancing website performance. Next-gen image formats like WebP offer superior compression and quality compared to traditional formats such as JPEG and PNG. GIF less suitable for reproducing color photographs and other images with color gradients but well-suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.
Here is a breakdown of the most common image formats, their benefits and shortcomings:
- GIF introduced 1987
The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987. GIFs are suitable for sharp-edged line art with a limited number of colors, such as logos. This takes advantage of the format’s lossless
compression, which favors flat areas of uniform color with well defined edges. They can also be used to store low-color sprite data for games. GIFs can be used for small animations and low-resolution video clips, or as reactions in online messaging used to convey emotion and feelings instead of using words.
INTERESTING HISTORY: The most common pronunciations in English are with a soft g as in gin or with a hard g as in gift. This sparked an interesting debate, encompassing a wide range of participants. The disagreement over the pronunciation has led to heated Internet debate. On the occasion of receiving a lifetime achievement award at the 2013
Webby Awards ceremony, Wilhite publicly rejected the hard-g pronunciation. His speech led to more than 17,000 posts on Twitter and dozens of news articles. The White House and the TV program Jeopardy! also entered the debate in 2013. In February 2020, The J.M. Smucker Company, the owners of the Jif brand, partnered with the animated image database and search engine Giphy to release a limited-edition “Jif vs. GIF” jar of peanut butter that had a label humorously declaring the soft-g pronunciation to refer exclusively to the peanut butter, and GIF to be exclusively pronounced with the hard-g pronunciation.
- JPG (aka JPEG) introduced 1992
JPEG, short for Joint Photographic Experts Group is a commonly usedmethod of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for thoseimages produced by digital photography. The degree of compression canbe adjusted, allowing a selectable trade off between storage size and image quality. Since its introduction in 1992, JPEG has been the most widely used image compression standard in the world, and the most widely used digital image format, with several billion JPEG images produced every day as of 2015. JPEG was largely responsible for the proliferation of digital images and digital photos across the Internet and later social media. JPEG compression is used in a number of image file formats. JPEG/Exif is the most common image format used by digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices; along with JPEG/JFIF, it is the most common format for storing and transmitting
photographic images on the World Wide Web.
- PNG introduced 1994
Portable Network Graphics, officially pronounced PING, is a rastergraphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF or do you pronounce it JIF?)—unofficially, the initials PNG stood for the recursive acronym “PNG’s not GIF”. PNG
graphics are scalable, meaning they can be enlarged or shrunk with little or no loss of resolution. They also support transparent backgrounds, however their file size is often larger than other formats.
- WebP introduced 2010
Google developed the WebP image format as a modern alternative to formats like JPEG and PNG. It employs both lossy and lossless compression and supports both transparency and animations. WebP images are known for their small file sizes, which can lead to faster webpage loading times. Older (much older) browsers may not support this format, but it is supported by most modern web browsers, making it an attractive option for web developers looking to optimize image delivery and site performance. This is the industry’s preferred image format for most uses, at least until the next development comes along.
There are many other formats, most falling out of favor over time. Tiff, SVG, EPS, BMP, HEIF, RAW, PSD, AI (Adobe Illustrator) and more. Choosing the best image file format will often increase the speed your pages load, and provides other benefits to enhance your viewers’ experience.
