QUICK FIX #1 – Setup each page with Google Analytics

QUICK FIX #2 – Make sure all images and links are working

QUICK FIX #3 – Add a search or sitemap of your content

QUICK FIX #4 – Setup your site on a CMS

QUICK FIX #5 – Get a professionally designed template

Tonka Park can help you with your existing website with each of these items. Feel free to contact us by email at hello@tonkapark.com or by phone 573-557-3147.

Visit the site: Lake of the Ozarks web services

I originally started out trying to gain the top spot for Camdenton web design. I have basically acheived this. I am #1 or 2 on the big 3 search engines. I hope that blogging about working and living in Camdenton will continue to keep my site well listed. As time progresses I hope to be the first person anyone in Camdenton calls when they need application development or a website design.

So with the first keyword pair looking good I am now concerned with my placement for Osage Beach web design. There are more businesses in Osage Beach than Camdenton and several designers already laying claim to top search results when using Google or Yahoo. On Google when searching for my site I actually find the domaintools.com lookup of my domain, page 2, prior to finding my website entry for Tonka Park, page 5. Google has been dissapointing me lately. So I use Yahoo as my search engine with Google Chrome browser. Go figure.

Bing actually puts me at #2 returning my Tonka Park website sandwiched between two DreamStone Media links.

DreamStone Media seems to hold the search result lead in Osage Beach when it comes to web design. I haven't met Tim Badolto yet but it looks like he has been in the area for several years.  Hopefully, there is room in the Lake of the Ozarks for another web designer and application developer.

I have been developing enterprise and small business databases and applications for several years now and think I have the ability to differentiate myself from the rest of the designers in the area with my skill set.

So am I the next Camdenton web design and development company or the next Osage Beach web design and development company? Perhaps one day I can aspire to be a Lake of the Ozarks web design and development company. One town at a time.

About a month or so back we started seeing ants in three areas inside the house. We had Best Pest out twice to get the situation under control. When the ants didn't go away that is when we met Ken due to our confusion in why after two visits we still had ants in our house every day. After Ken's visit we straightened things out with the correct baiting strategy and things were going great.

Two days ago while watching tv at night we saw some flying ants in the house. We tried to kill them as we found them but there were a lot. Then yesterday I found several thousand winged carpenter ants and the workers outside on a planter under some rocks and then found a large number on our porch and then the unfortunate, we found several hundred on our window frame inside the house.  I immediately doused the bugs outside under several cups of instectide. The trails on the porch and in the house got plenty of the bait placed in their path. The ants swarmed the bait and this morning we found some dead ants and also some new trails making a run for it.

After finding the swarm of ants in the house I immediately called Best Pest Control of Camdenton to make sure they could come out first thing in the morning to help assess the situation. Ken Schaumburg was kind enough to come out in person again and talk about the situation. In finding the ant colonies on the move he sprayed the entire house to hopefully get those ants away from the house.

Turns out that the 6 inches of rain this week probably flooded out the ants and forced them to seek higher and drier shelter. Well sorry for the bugs, there is no vacancy at this inn.

When we moved to town I began watching for business cards, billboards and other advertising that had websites listed. I wanted to find out who had websites and what the quality of the websites was for the local businesses.

I have found that all the Realtors in the Ozarks have a website, most having paid the same company for a template website that some 1000+ Realtors probably have elsewhere in the United States. The larger chains or franchises have a website but it is always something maintained by the corporate location in some other major city. Then there are the majority of places that have nothing on the internet except phone book entries which are usually only good for a phone number and sometimes you can get an address, if that is all you were looking for. Finally, there is the small, but bigger than I first observed, group that have websites for their business or organization that was either designed by a friend or contracted to a web design professional.

Part of my search for these company sites is to find targeted clients and also find out if there are companies or individuals offering similar services that I am offering through my Tonka Park web design site. It took some time to find these local businesses or individuals offering domain hosting and registration, email hosting, web design,  and computer support. This list is incomplete but these are the professionals that I will begin with to compare my services and I want my clients to know what else is available to them in the area.

• http://vbmedia.com/
• http://cdoc.net/
• http://hip2click.com/
• http://www.beaboutweb.com/home.htm
• http://www.osagebeachwebdesign.com/
• http://www.djonesassoc.com/webpages.htm
• http://www.lakeoftheozarkswebsitedesign.com/

I will work to differentiate myself from this list so that I can show value in my product. Maybe even some day I will meet these individuals and work with them.

I take pride in my work and want my clients to know that while I may not offer the lowest priced services I will produce stylish, clear and simple designs that will benefit their organization. Whether I am designing a website, database application, business cards or hosting websites and email I will get the job done well. A website is an extension of a company image.  Company advertising, billboards, business cards and store fronts are all carefully designed and arranged, shouldn't the website for your company be given the same attention? With more and more people using the internet to compare products and services it is necessary to have a professionally designed website to improve conversion rates.

If you are looking for help for your business in Camdenton, Osage Beach, Lebanon, Linn Creek, Sunrise Beach or Lake Ozark area check out my portfolio and list of services.