‘Ask Joanne’ Provides Answers

Joanne Marcinek of Newtown has launched Ask Joanne, LLC an information consulting company. She is an Internet expert specializing in search engine optimization. Search engines account for 80 percent of the traffic to websites. Search engine optimization is the art and science of targeting a website to ensure that it ranks well in the search engines and gets more traffic.

A self-proclaimed “computer geek,” her background includes ten years’ experience in corporate finance and systems integration, and another nine years’ experience as an independent consultant. She has been involved with computers since 1975, when floppy disks were 8½ inches and the only games that could be played on a computer were chess and Zork, a text-based adventure game.

Ms Marcinek has been searching and researching on the internet since 1991 and has developed an intuition about how to find what she is looking for. Her expertise is providing relevant information — so she says that if you want to know something, Ask Joanne.

She specializes in helping individuals and companies create, edit, or update their websites to optimize them for proper indexing in the search engines. She can be reached at 426-4737 or through her website at www.askjoanne.com.