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Aztek is a full service web design, application development, web marketing and hosting firm.

  • Aztek has been in business for over 13 years and worked with over 500 clients.
  • Equally balanced teams of web designers, application developers.
  • Central, downtown Cleveland location.

Aztek is not affiliated with the unfortunate car of the same name.

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Six Common Web Design Misconceptions (And Why You Should Avoid Them)

As designers, we strive to learn all we can about your company in order to create for you the best possible web presence, but we can never know your company as intimately as you do. Clients are quite often able to bring great ideas and suggestions to the table that we may not have thought of. The most successful web designs spring directly from this kind of teamwork.

However, just as it is your job to know all about the widgets you make, or the service you provide, it is our job to know all about the web and what makes great web design. Occasionally a client has a suggestion that at first glance seems like a great idea, but may not be effective for a web site. Following are six of the most common misconceptions about web design and why you should avoid them on your site. More...

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Can you please remove your site from Google?

While this email gave SEO's across the World a good chuckle, it's important to note how Search Engine Optimization actually works and the kind of influence we really have over the Search Engines.  More...

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What is Google Authority and Why Do I Need to Know?

"I need to be on the first page of Google", "How can I get to #1 on Google", "I need to improve my natural rankings"- these are all comments and questions that I hear on a very regular basis. Many people don't understand the correct and actual route to achieving better rankings on Google. There are many "experts" in the industry that claim that they know the absolute set of steps to ranking well in Google, the most popular search engine on the web. However, these "rules" seem to change often, resulting in confusion among clients and internet marketers alike. More...

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Google becomes more local

In their quest for ultra-relevancy, Google has announced another major update to their search results page. 

Here is a teaser from the official Google blog:

"We like to make search as easy as we can, so we've just finished the worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will now appear even when you don't type in a location. When you search on Google, we will guess where you are and show results near you."

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