Website Redesign: 10 Questions to Ask

Does your website stink?
If so, it’s probably time
for a website redesign!

When we buy milk at the grocery store, it has an expiration date. We know when that gallon of milk is past its prime.
Determining when a website is past its prime is a different matter altogether. There’s no expiration date per se, but there are [...]

Word Cloud: President Obama State of the Union Address 2010

What did President Obama say during last night’s 2010 State of the Union Address? I put together a word cloud to break out what was said. Jobs and economy were heavily featured with a tilt down improving government and moving past Washington politics.

The Importance of Social Media for SEO

Social media plays an important part in your search engine optimization strategy. How you approach your marketing and the power of your brand might influence your social media strategy for search engine ranking. John Fairley discussed this very topic with a group of professionals at a SCORE Chicago event.

Social Media for Business

Three experts involved with social media efforts for their respective companies relayed their thoughts at a January 2010 Chicago PR and Marketing Lunch and Learn. Here’s a recap of how social media can be used for business.

What the Apple Tablet Means for the Web

At this point, chances are you’ve heard of the Apple tablet.  Sure, it doesn’t officially exist yet (that will assuredly change tomorrow).  But with seemingly every news source on the planet reporting on it, not to mention every Apple fanboy reigniting pre-iPhone era fervor about the unreleased device, its more than unlikely that even the most [...]

2010 Edelman Trust Barometer Released: Trust in U.S. Business Jumps 18%

This morning Edelman released their findings from their 2010 Trust research. They found that trust in U.S. business was up 18% from last year. That brought trust in U.S. business to 54%, still behind Sweden (76%), Canada (76%), and Germany (75%), but trending positive. The jump conincides with an increase in trust for the U.S. Government which increased 16%. Edelman credits the increase in trust to an increased candor by CEOs and a commitment to transperancy by companies over the last year.

Walker Sands Wins Agency Blog of the Year!

On Monday, Gass announced that Walker Sands was the leading vote getter, earning Footprints the title of Agency Blog of the Year. We beat out well known large agencies like Razorfish and Sapient Interactive as well as extremely well designed and well written blogs like AgencyNet’s ANidea and the Russo Group’s Razor Branding Blog.

Boost Your SEO by Finding & Fixing Website Crawing Issues

Not getting enough traffic from search engines? You may have a crawling problem. Crawling your web pages is one of the first, in a series of, steps that search engines must take in order to have your web pages show up in search results. If your pages aren’t crawled, then they won’t show up in the search [...]

Will Android Fail?

As Google unwrapped its highly touted Nexus One smartphone, widely viewed as the first true iPhone killer, the consumer technology world was salivating with anticipation.  The search engine giant had just launched its first direct attack in a battle against rival Apple that has seen a flurry of recent competing acquisitions, as well as the [...]

Walker Sands Still Accepting Summer Internship Applications

Walker Sands is still accepting applicants for our Summer Intern Program. Apply today!