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The Small Business Guide to SEO

The perennial question for all small businesses is, “How will people find me?” The answer in the age of the internet is online, of course, but even that can feel overwhelming because, hi, the internet has so many web pages, search options, and competition. What’s a small business to do? As a Charlotte web design [...]

Why You Still Need a Charlotte Web Designer in the Age of AI

No doubt AI is getting more sophisticated, and yes, people are using it to code, called “vibe coding.” What that means is AI generates functional code from natural language prompts. From there, it’s easy to see the leap to creating a full-fledged website. As a Charlotte web designer, does that mean we’ll soon be out [...]

Chat and Charge: Shopify to Integrate with ChatGPT

The number of ChatGPT monthly users continues to grow. This month, that number reached 858 million with approximately 5.5 billion visits. People are using AI for a variety of reasons – research, writing, therapy, and more. But pretty soon (time to be determined), people will be able to use ChatGPT Integration with Shopify to purchase [...]

The 5 Best AI Tools to Help Your SEO

As I’ve been saying, search engine optimization (SEO) is changing due to AI. But part of that change includes using the Best AI tools to improve SEO for small businesses to help with SEO! As a Charlotte web design company, here are the top five tools we’re using. Moz AI for keyword research with search [...]

Do You Still Need a Website in 2025?

With everyone and their mom making money via TikTok these days, not to mention how AI is changing the efficacy of search engine optimization (SEO), do you still need a website in 2025? The short answer is yes. All it takes is changing the algorithm for your business to disappear. Understanding the importance of digital [...]

Is Your Website Handling the Rise of Bots?

If you’re not plugged into the tech world like your favorite Charlotte web design company (us), you may be unaware that bad bots make up 37% of all internet traffic! According to a report from Imperva, “AI is not only being used by attackers to create more advanced, evasive bots that target APIs, exploit business [...]

What Makes a Great Charlotte Website in 2025?

As a Charlotte web design company with decades of experience, Web Symphonies knows a thing or two about what makes a great website. You might be thinking, “Is there even a point? Should I just create a Substack/TikTok Channel and call it a day?” I mean, you can. You do you, but one of the [...]

Web Designer Reveals How to Create an Irresistible Homepage

You have approximately two seconds to hook potential clients and customers with your web page. (Maybe it’s more than two seconds but not much more.) What draws them in? As a Charlotte web designer with decades of experience, Web Symphonies has found what draws them in is the hero section. The hero section is the [...]

Stop Writing to Please Search Engines

As I already mentioned, AI is affecting click-through rates. Due to the “AI overview” feature in search engine platforms, people aren’t clicking on specific links as much anymore. Some folks have reported a traffic drop of as much as 50%! What now? When search engines aren’t really ranking you in the same way, what are [...]

How to Fix Website Leak Conversions

It’s a tale as old as (commerce) time – you have a shop, visitors are swinging through, but they don’t buy anything. In the language of websites, it might not be a sale you’re after – it could be signing up for your email list or requesting a free consultation. What gives? People are taking [...]

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