Thursday, October 9th, 2008
This blog post is in response to a Wall Street Journal article from Monday, August 11, 2008
For those of you with a small business and no website, reading this WSJ article needs to go on the weekend “To Do” list. Even if you choose to have a company build and maintain your website, the article covers the basics that all business owners must understand in order to avoid additional fees and misc services many providers pitch. (more…)
Tags: Internet Marketing, website
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
The early days of search engine spiders ruined many content writers. Those that studied how to clearly convey a message began stuffing keywords into website content to improve a website’s Google positioning. To avoid issues with duplicate content, the thesaurus was a handy reference tool, but the content was now just boring with different words. (more…)
Tags: content, scanning, SEO
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
If you use the Google toolbar when surfing the web then you have probably seen the little green colored box that refers to Google’s Toolbar PageRank(PR); their proprietary tool that simplifies which websites are more important than others on a scale of 1-10 (or zero if you have no PageRank). (more…)
Tags: google, Search Engines, SEO, website
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
We know times are getting tough, and many businesses are struggling to compete let alone stay afloat. When used effectively, technology can greatly reduce expenses and lift profits, and it doesn’t require off-shoring your needs (and U.S. dollars) to another country – that won’t help.
Today we received a call from a California-based small business that is struggling to make ends meet. Lay (more…)
Tags: efficiency
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Instant messaging isn’t just for teens anymore. “IM’ing,” as we experts (or addicts) like to call it, is quickly gaining popularity in workplaces across the country. But instant messaging at work is a kind of double-edged sword (more…)
Tags: Internet News
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Every now and then we feel like posting on topics other than search engine marketing. And when we feel like some humorous reading of the “unique content” kind, well, we turn to the king of it, Craigslist.
The truth of the matter is, we know some of these people… (more…)
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