Tag: Mobile-friendly
Golden unveils new website
June 10, 2015HME News Staff
OLD FORGE, Pa. - Golden Technologies has launched a new, mobile-friendly website, it announced this week. The site features a link on every product page where a consumer can click, fill out a brief form, and the information will be sent to the nearest Golden Flagship Retailer. “We are always looking at ways to drive traffic to our retailers,” said Patricia O'Brien, director of marketing and merchandising. The new site also features product accessory buttons that link to specific fabric...
Google pushes providers to 'look good'
May 15, 2015Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - It's so big it's been dubbed “Mobilegeddon,” but what does Google's recent decision to favor mobile-friendly websites mean for HME providers?Google on April 21 tweaked its search algorithm to make mobile-friendly websites rank higher in mobile search results.“It's not going to be OK any more to have a large website that looks bad on a mobile device,” said Justin Racine, marketing and e-commerce manager at Woburn, Mass.-based Geriatric Medical, which recently...
Providers race to rank
May 15, 2015Tracy Orzel
YARMOUTH, Maine - Seventy-two percent of the respondents to a recent HME NewsPoll say their websites are mobile-friendly.That's a good thing, because in April, Google tweaked its search algorithm to make mobile-friendly websites rank higher in mobile search results.It's also a good thing because 78% of respondents say more of their customers are using mobile devices to find them.“During the first quarter of 2015, over 30% of our web traffic was mobile—21% mobile, 10% tablet,” wrote...