Building Your Own Sitemap

Published on August 9, 2011

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Another small yet vital part of any company or personal website is a sitemap. What exactly is a sitemap? All it is is a simple file that you have within your site that directs the web crawlers around your website. It tells them how each page is connected and how to navigate through every single [...]

Top 5 Vital WordPress Plug-ins

Published on August 8, 2011

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A few days ago I talked about WordPress and the amazing tool that it can be for those wanting to build a website or blog for their business. If you haven’t read it you can check it out here.  Now something that you need to understand about WordPress is that it only becomes that much [...]

Three Things Business Owners Need to Use: Social Media Marketing, Google Maps Optimization and SEO

Published on August 6, 2011

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For today’s modern business owner, it is extremely important to have their company available on the Internet through social media networking sites, navigation tools like Google maps, and general search engine results. By having a prolific Internet presence, the modern business owner, whether they are e-commerce or retail, will be able to increase consumer awareness, [...]

Happy Birthday World Wide Web!

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On August 6, 1991 Tim Berners-Lee published a summary of the “World Wide Web project” to the alt.hypertext newsgroup, and the web as we know it was born. Now just to be clear, the Internet already existed, Tim Berners-Lee contribution was tying hypertext and internet together to create a literal web of information. In celebration [...]

Patience is a Virtue

Published on August 3, 2011

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In this world of instant gratification, it can be frustrating and difficult to accept that things happen in their own time. Not everything happens as quick as a Google search result, and some things do take time. And as the old saying goes, patience is a virtue, and things that are worthwhile take time. This, [...]

For the Next 30 Days

Published on August 2, 2011

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What are you going to do to improve your business’ online presence for the next 30 days? My challenge to you is to set an attainable 30 day goal for your company. Establish whether your goal will be something you are going to be working on yourself, or if it will be an entire business [...]

Google+ Continues to Grow

Published on August 1, 2011

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It’s been just a few weeks since Google+ has opened to a much bigger audience and it is staggering to see how quickly they are growing.  I log into my personal account and have people adding me left and right to their circles. Seems a lot lately that they are just spam friends, but Google+ [...]

Web Page Speed Testing

Published on July 29, 2011

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One factor that used to determine if your visitors stayed on your site or not is the time that it took for your page to load.  Back in the days of Dial-up, it was very common to wait minutes for a page to fully load, but as the internet has become faster we have all [...]

Your Success Is Built On Trust!

Published on July 28, 2011

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In the Internet world, success is built on trust. We want to be sure that while we are searching for varying topics, products, and other information, it is going to be accurate; and if we are planning to purchase something, we are protected and feel safe while surfing. With the recent Panda update released by [...]

Which Redirection Should I Take?

Published on July 27, 2011

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A few months back Matt Lloyd wrote a great blog post on 301 redirects. I think that you should check it out and see what you can learn from it. I wanted to add just a little bit more information about redirects in this post and also show you how to check and see what [...]