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Is Your User Interface Design Hurting Your Conversion Rates? | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com If your user interface is confusing, jumbled or unprofessional in any way, it is sure to hurt your conversion rates. But what does that really mean? Put in the

Bar Bets

After several months of intensive development and many long nights, BarBets' new website is live and operational, with the Mobile App soon to follow! Keep your eyes out for it in the App Store!

It was such an honor to have the opportunity to work with the BarBets team and take their idea from Conception to Creation to Completion! This is only the beginning of an exciting journey for our teams together and we hope you appreciate and enjoy all the love, sweat and tears we have invested over the last several months!

barbetsapp.com Our app automatically finds the nearest BarBets location for you. If your favorite bar doesn't have BarBets yet, maybe you can help us do something about that.

Another hard day at work in the "New Lab"

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WordPress 3.5 “Elvin”

One of the biggest updates in a while!

wordpress.org It's the most wonderful time of the year: a new WordPress release is available and chock-full of goodies to delight bloggers and developers alike. We're calling this one "Elvin" in honor of drummer Elvin Jones, who played with John Coltrane in addition to many others. If you've been around WordPress...

A gorgeous snowy day here at the Lab!

Shotgun vs Sniper Rifle – Why “Focus” is Key to Online Marketing Success | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com The key to online marketing success is a good blog. Also a Newsletter. And Facebook. I mean Twitter....errrr, or maybe LinkedIn? Ok, it's Pinterest, I promise!

Pay-Per-Oops – Top PPC Marketing Mistakes To Avoid | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com Pay-Per-Click or PPC marketing like Google Adwords can be incredibly effective, if you know what you're doing. If you take one wrong step, you can quickly lose

How to Get More Positive Reviews and Comments | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com As a business owner, you should be encouraging your customers to leave reviews and comments. While nobody likes bad reviews and biting comments, positive ones

Modern Manufacturing Miracle – RLE is live! | Blue Riot Labs

One of our most recent launches! Great work guys!

blueriotlabs.com Ok, so maybe miracle is overstating it, but what else do you call what we achieved for RLE Technologies website? Designed a site that tied together

5 Tips for More Effective Mobile Web Design | Blue Riot Labs

Mobile web is where it's at...

blueriotlabs.com According to Google, 79% of all U.S. consumers are using their smartphones prior to making a purchasing decision. With screens on the average phone getting

Obama Says So Long SOPA, Killing Controversial Internet Piracy Legislation - Forbes

It's about time...

forbes.com The growing anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) support that has swept through the gaming and Internet community found a very big ally today. With websites like Reddit and Wikipedia and gaming organizations like Major League Gaming prepared for a blackout on January 18th – the same day that the House...

7 Top Marketing Tips From the Experts | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com The online marketing landscape is constantly changing and what worked a few months ago might not work today. For that reason, it is important to constantly keep

10 SEO Techniques for E-Commerce Websites | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com The goal of any e-commerce site is to sell, sell, sell. But you aren't going to get the sales you need if nobody can find your site to begin with. That is why

Top Reasons To Be A StumbleUpon User | Blue Riot Labs

StumbleUpon is awesome for getting more traffic to your site!! Do you use stumbleupon? Share some of your tips!

blueriotlabs.com If you've never used StumbleUpon, you'll be pleasantly surprised how simple and easy it is to use. But there are far more reasons than that to use this popular

Is Your Business Prepared for Siri and Voice Search Optimization? | Blue Riot Labs

Have you already taken steps in preparation for Siri?? Let us know how it's going!

blueriotlabs.com In a previous post, I wrote about how mobile web was changing SEO forever. One of the biggest changes mobile web is bringing to the search engine foray is voice

Why Alt Tags Matter: SEOing An Image Based Website | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com When you have a website packed full of images, such as an eCommerce or photography site, you have much more than text at your disposal to inform users and

Google Shakes Things Up Yet Again With the Panda 2.5 Update: What Does It Mean For SEO? | Blue Riot.

blueriotlabs.com It seems like just yesterday that online business owners were left scrambling after Google's now infamous Panda/Farmer update. Well, it appears that big 'G' has

10 Reasons Why YouTube Is Good for SEO? | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com If you are wondering whether to use YouTube for SEO purposes, either because you might not have time or you think it's too saturated, consider these ten reasons

Web Design: How Colors Impact Human Behavior | Blue Riot Labs

Read this article and the next time you're at the store, take into account all of the packaging and signage that you see. Especially with XMas right around the corner. Pretty interesting article on packaging and emotional behavior...

blueriotlabs.com Did you know that certain colors can affect human behavior? Ever wonder why McDonald's and Burger King use red and yellow prominently in their advertisements

Magento Community, Professional and Enterprise Editions: Which To Choose? | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com Along with Magento Go, the e-commerce platform has several other editions that bring even more to the table. There is the Community Edition, the Professional

SEO Beats PPC & Social Media For Generating Leads, New Industry Report Says

searchengineland.com SEO is the number one source of leads for both B2C and B2B marketers, beating out both PPC and social media marketing in a recent survey of online marketers. But more of those surveyed say they plan to increase their social media marketing budgets in 2012, ahead of SEO and PPC. The numbers come from...

Announcing Blue Riot Lab’s New Partnership With Magento Go! | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com We have exciting news. Blue Riot Labs has recently been given an opportunity to partner with the world's fastest growing ecommerce platform on the market:

The future is here. EconoManey is live. | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com What do you do when a collection of crazy-brilliant economic futurists need a website? Well, you add: 70ml of pure user interface 175ml of refined

Who Is Steve Jobs, Really? A Look Into Apple’s Mysterious Former CEO | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com Steve Jobs' recent departure from Apple left a lot of us wondering who this man really is. We know that he headed Apple, one of the most successful home

FPA.org goes live! | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com The Foreign Policy Association is one of the world's most lauded policy organizations. Formed in 1918 to support Woodrow Wilson's effort to achieve a just

White Hat Vs. Black Hat SEO – What’s the Deal? | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com 'Google's Webmaster Tools' provides all the rules, tips and tricks you need to get ahead in the search engine game, so to speak. These are considered White Hat

5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Custom Web Design | Blue Riot Labs

Some compelling reasons why you need to STAND OUT!!!

blueriotlabs.com We live in exciting times where anyone can become a business owner, anyone can develop a product or service and anyone can sell those products and services

What will the social media landscape look like in five years? Do you think Facebook will still dominate?

5 APIs You Should Know About | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com When you have a website, the goal is to get human visitors to interact with it, right? But sometimes you may want a machine to interact with your site. This is

20 Lessons Internet Marketers Can Learn from Warren Buffett

seohosting.com As Alice Schroeder explains at the end of her book, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, although Warren Buffett is best known for being the second richest person in the world, “above all, he would describe himself as a teacher.”

How to SEO eCommerce Product Pages | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com Six steps for optimizing your ecommerce product pages in the search engines.

WordPress Reaches 50 Million Users! | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com It was recently reported that Facebook reached 750 million users this month, but that's not the only milestone that was reached. WordPress, the content

How to Get the Most Out of Your Web Designer | Blue Riot Labs

How to be a good client...

blueriotlabs.com You've contacted a web designer and you're wondering how to be the best client possible. The good news is that being a good client is not difficult to do, but

WordPress Makes Web Design Easier | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com One of the most unique aspects about WordPress is the fact that it's so versatile. You can literally make your website do anything you want and look anyway you

5 of the Best WordPress Image Gallery Plug-Ins | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com Nothing brings attention to your WordPress site or blog more than a visually stunning photo slideshow gallery. With an interactive gallery, your visitors will

Content Marketing 101: Seven Tips for Content Marketing Domination | Blue Riot Labs

blueriotlabs.com The Internet has changed the marketing and sales game and that means the old ways of doing things are no longer effective. You can't just blast out

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Blogging | Blue Riot Labs

This past year, blogging on a regular basis has been great for our company! I thought I would share some of these benefits in a recent blog post.

blueriotlabs.com Blogging is one of the most effective ways to reach out to your target audience, and many businesses have already figured that out. There are dozens if not

How To Manage Your WordPress Website | Denver WordPress Developers | Blue Riot Labs

Are you keeping your WordPress site on track? Learn super easy tips to manage your site/blog on a regular basis.

blueriotlabs.com Let's say you've recently hired Blue Riot's own Denver WordPress developers to create a killer website that does everything you want it to. Only, you've decided