WordPress 3.0 is now available!

And we’re ever so excited to be able to assist in bringing our clients the latest features available!

Combined with our SEO Check, upgrading to WordPress 3.0 will take your blog to the next level.

If you’re still using Blogger or TypePad, now is the time to take advantage of what WordPress has to offer. With Google shutting down more and more Blogger blogs every day without warning, it’s important to ensure that all of your content is safe and secure. We can help!

Whether you’re interested in a discounted WordPress Upgrade and SEO Check or a Full Conversion to WordPress, we’ll make it easy for you. Contact us today!

Happy Blogging!

- CrushLabs Team

http://www.crushlabs.com

We know you’ve heard of it! I mean, who hasn’t?

The Thesis Theme framework for WordPress from Chris Pearson at DIYthemes is said to be the best WordPress Theme framework for SEO.

“Over 24,437 people rely on the airtight SEO, incredible design flexibility, and lightning-fast loading times that Thesis provides.”

But because Thesis is JUST a framework, it can be hard to setup your WordPress Blog and design of Thesis the way that you really want it to be. And we’re here to help!

• We can convert any static HTML website into a Thesis Skin.
• We can convert any JPEG / PSD design into a Thesis Skin.
• We can convert any Joomla Premium Template and turn it into a Thesis Skin.

All of our Thesis skins are coded for maximum compatibility with all major browsers and where possible pass the W3c Validator XHTML 1.0 Strict requirements.

CrushLabs, Inc is proud to be working with LAXCarShare. Since being contacted by LAXCarShare a few months ago, we’ve worked with executives to create a fresh new logo and website to match their exceedingly fresh ideas for bringing car sharing to the Southern California Area.

We’re excited to have had this opportunity!

LAXCarShare allows members to reserve cars at will based on availability. Reserve by the hour or by the day or as needed; reserving cars online at any time. Instead of paying interest accruing leases or having monthly car and insurance payments; LAXCarShare is a 24-hour car service where you only pay for the time that you actually need it.

Visit LAXCarShare: http://www.laxcarshare.com

Need a little search engine love? Want to make sure that your website is Search Engine Optimized?

Liam Scanlan, author of The 12 Habits of Highly Effective Websites: A Primer on Search Engine Optimization for Non-Technical Executives and founder of SiteLeads.net, a website consulting and content firm, shares five simple secrets to search engine optimization.

1. Get a good domain. It’s best if your domain relates to your product, advises Scanlan. “If you are selling handmade dolls online, but your domain is acmeproducts.com, that doesn’t help the search engine.” Don’t forget that you can register multiple domain names. To avoid running into issues with search engines that may overlook numerous domains pointed to the same page, direct them to separate landing pages with links that will draw visitors into the site. That can help your rank.
2. Take care with titles. Scanlan says the biggest and most common mistake that small businesses make in their SEO is having an incomplete title or missing title tag. Most sites are created using traditional HTML editors that don’t flag weaknesses in site creation, he says. Plugging in page titles is an easy way to attract search engine algorithms that look for titles on multiple pages of the site. Using the doll example again, it’s far better for one of your pages to be titled “Barbie” than “Page 7″ if you’re targeting the doll-buying set.
3. Use keywords wisely. Yan Lyansky has bumped up the Google rank of his $3 million company, Downtube, a folding-bicycle manufacturer and distributor in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, by integrating keywords throughout his website. “You can’t have ‘folding bicycle’ [over and over] or people won’t read it,” says Lyansky, 37. But the company does include those words in product titles and descriptions, page headers and wherever else they can be used without being a turnoff to customers.
4. Make your contact information obvious. To prevent spam, some companies design their contact information as a graphic so that it can’t be picked up by programs trolling for new e-mail addresses. That’s a mistake, says Scanlan. “You need to make your contact information easy to find online, especially if you’re trying to get your ranking up for a specific region.” Opt for text-based contact info instead and embed e-mail information in a hotlink.
5. Link up. The more relevant links you have between your site and others in your industry, the higher the rank, says Scanlan. Lyansky beefs up his results by building pages that compare the attributes of his bikes to his competitors–and including links to those competitors. He says, “When someone searches for one of our competitors, this helps our site come up pretty high in the rankings.”

- Source: Gwen Moran

If you’re still stumped, we can help! CrushLabs, Inc has assisted hundreds of companies and bloggers in maximizing their SEO using both static HTML and Custom WordPress websites. And we can help you!

Contact Us Today!

Happy CyberMonday!

To get in the spirit of the season, CrushLabs, Inc will be offering WordPress Upgrades for a discounted rate of $25.00 USD. This includes all plugins! Remember: This is today ONLY!

With this offer, we’ll also be giving out Free SEO Consultation (worth $150 USD) for one site to those who purchase a WordPress Upgrade. Our SEO Consultations come in the form of a site specific write-up with information on how you can boost your SEO specifically for the Google Search Engine!

Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

Contact Us For your Discounted WordPress Upgrade Today!

We’re offering 1 free WordPress 2.8.5 upgrade to the first 10 people who contact us today October 21st, 2009.

WordPress 2.8.5 was released early this AM *October 21st, 2009*.

Our upgrades are manual upgrades and include full site backup prior to upgrade.

This also includes upgrades of all current plugins.

We also check on the site’s current Search Engine Optimization.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve added Blackberry Theme creation as a new service. We realize that many clients who have websites, would also like to be able to offer their visitors a custom blackberry theme that they’re able to download based on their website. We’ll be linking to a few of the themes that we’ve already created, and also releasing a new theme every month. We’re very excited to add this as a service for our valued clients and look forward to serving you! *smile*

Yep. They’re great. 

Every company has the tedious, always daunting task of having to track all expenses and billing.

And we’ve pretty much tried everything that we can think of…

When we first started in 2001, we were using Quickbooks AutoBilling with PayPal payment processing…

At one point we were using Authorize.net to accept Credit Card…

Then we switched to using our own invoicing platform for generating invoices and accepting payments…

Then there was the OSCommerce craze which led us to believe that creating products was the way to go…

Then when PayPal allowed us to start branding Invoices, we relied soley on those….

Then…oh God…there were O so many… Joomla extensions that we tweaked to work for us…

But I have to say…

None of them have worked as seemless as Freshbooks has…out of the box…no tweaking necessary.

So make sure you head on over there and sign up.

Trust us. You need them.

WordPress 2.6 is out! Oh boy!

It’s almost like Christmas…but…not really.

We’ve already received a few requests from client regarding upgrading them to WordPress 2.6.

What’s cool about our upgrades is that usually when we upgrade you, you’re covered for a month should there be another upgrade to WordPress during that time. 

So, yes…we’ll take care of you…and No…you don’t have to worry.

Clients like these make the job more enjoyable and more worthwhile.
It was great working with Greg of Sports Scholarship Formula. It’s always great working with someone who knows what they want and can articulate their needs and goals to us.

“I wish I had found Crushlabs earlier!
I have spent years and thousands of dollars developing content and working with programmers to market our latest products. If you are considering starting a blog or informative website with amazing capabilities you have a couple of choices. You can do what I did and invest a fortune or you can work with Crushlabs from the beginning.
I am extremely impressed with the everyone I have worked with at Crushlabs.. No fluff here to waste your time. You just explain what you want and they get right to it which I really appreciate. Working with them on projects are easy and cost effective. While the product they produce is excellent…. what really makes Crushlabs stand out in my mind is the support that Courtney, JR and others provide at all hours of the day. Answers typically arrive within minutes, much less hours or days.
I would recommend Crushlabs to anyone.”