January 29th, 2009
After finding and commenting on this post from pifphoto.com, I was contacted by Lindsay from PIF (Pay it Forward) and asked to do a follow up as a guest blogger. I had mentioned a site that I have been using called website.grader.com which does a great job of analyzing your site and grading it’s SEO performance on factors like keywords, incoming links, whether or not you are listed in some of the major search and listing sites. It works as a great starting point for assessing your site’s visibility.
You can read my …
TAGS:guest blog posts . SEO . writing
Categories: Blog.
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January 29th, 2009
Sauce Creative Group does some great design work for some major brands, including a lot of recent work with Redbull. So when they asked me to help turn their design into a Wordpress site, it was a great opportunity for me – not to mention a chance to just build a site and not worry about the design process myself.
The biggest job I had on this was creating the fading slideshow at the top of every page. I found a sample site that had something similar, but i had to tweak the code to be more flexible. Now …
TAGS:clients . web clients . web design . WordPress
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January 26th, 2009
The term SEO very simply stands for Search Engine Optimization. Yet most people seem to think it is some magic formula that will drive customers to their site. While the term SEO is still thrown around and still relevant, it is usually misunderstood and I often hear a lot of really outdated and sometimes downright wrong ideas about what SEO is – especially from potential clients. I can’t tell you the number of times someone has asked me how much I charge to add keywords to their site and make them rank #1 on Google. I can tell you that …
TAGS:how to . marketing . SEO
Categories: Ideas, SEO.
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January 26th, 2009
The biggest problem with all this craziness over SEO is that it gets confused with the real goal, which is simply to increase traffic to your site. If you could get meaningful traffic to your site without search engines, would SEO even matter? To take it to another level – think of this: increased traffic eventually leads to a better page ranking, so one of the ways to improve your sites SEO is to get traffic there. But isn’t that why we want SEO? So where do we start?
The Real Goal
Let’s start with our actual goal, which is not to …
TAGS:how to . marketing . SEO
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January 11th, 2009
Eventually I will be sharing RSS feeds that I update when I find articles I think are useful. But for now, I’m just putting up some links from my shared Google Reader folders.
Here is my feed of tips about Using, Designing and Promoting blogs.
TAGS:Resources . tips
Categories: Ideas.
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January 11th, 2009
I thought I would start off the Resource section with a quick nod to some of the developers who provied free plugins for wordpress. I start every new wordpress install with these plugins.
All in One SEO Pack – Great options for manipulating meta data and search engne robots right from the admin panel. By Michael Torbert.
the_excerpt Reloaded – Allows small excerpts to be displayed instead the whole content of posts. By Kaf Oseo.
WP Post Thumbnail – One of my favorites. …
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