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Marketing Testimonials & References Matter Most

Strategic Planning, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized, What Are People Saying on January 25th, 2010 No Comments

How do you convert a business prospect into a believer that what you are selling holds the true value regardless of what your competitors are selling? It boils down testimonials, referrals and real data to back it up. Testimonials are and should be considered true marketing if they are written honestly, with real facts and [...]

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7 Free Business Listing Websites

Business Intelligence, Search Engine Marketing, Tips and Tricks on January 19th, 2010 3 Comments

So you have a new website… now what? As a followup to the 12th step in the SEO Checklist for Your New Website, I recommend adding your site to the following 7 Free Business Listing Websites: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp, City Search, Merchant Circle and Topix. You will be asked to create a business profile allowing [...]

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SEO Checklist for Your New Website

SEO, SEO Tidbit, Tips and Tricks, Web Design Tidbit on January 15th, 2010 7 Comments

A checklist to use during the development process Are you ready to build a website for your small business or for yourself? There are simple search engine optimization steps you should consider during the development process. The following 12 step optimization checklist will bring you one step closer to maximizing your revenues with smart web [...]

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Web Design Tidbit – July 27th, 2009

Tips and Tricks, Web Design Tidbit on July 27th, 2009 2 Comments

Cheat sheets can be time and life savers. Even if you develop websites all the time there are probably more than a few html tags or CSS techniques that you forget on a regular basis. For me it’s the font-style property. Even if you are a CSS and html rockstar (like yours truly!), it doesn’t [...]

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SEO Tidbit – July 13th, 2009

SEO Tidbit, Tips and Tricks on July 13th, 2009 2 Comments

Once in a while an SEO tool comes along that becomes absolutely invaluable and so priceless that you ask yourself how you ever survived without it. One of those SEO tools that occupies a primary spot in my SEO tool belt is the SEO Blogger Plugin from Wordtracker. SEO Blogger allows you to do keyword [...]

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Web Design Tidbit – July 6th, 2009

Tips and Tricks, Web Design, Web Design Tidbit on July 6th, 2009 No Comments

Creating a print stylesheet from scratch can be a time consuming matter and is more often than not overlooked when nearing the end of a web design or development project. One of the quickest and easiest ways to deploy a print stylesheet is to use the Hartija CSS Print Framework. This is not an end [...]

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SEO Tidbit – June 22, 2009

Natural Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO Tidbit, Tips and Tricks on June 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Many designers, developers, content managers and webmasters forget to utilize text or body copy for navigation and internal linking structure. Part of a strong optimization process involves capitalizing on your content for in-content or contextual links which link to pages deep within you site. Use good anchor text that relates to the page you are [...]

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Web Design Tidbit – June 15th, 2009

Tips and Tricks, Web Design, Web Design Tidbit on June 15th, 2009 No Comments

Ever need to quickly create a tab for a navigation element? With the Tab Generator it is quick and easy to generate any kind of tab you can imagine. Download it as a png and import into your design. As it says on the website – Tabs have never been easier! See you next week [...]

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SEO Tidbit – June 8th 2009

Natural Search Engine Optimization, SEO, SEO Tidbit, Tips and Tricks on June 8th, 2009 No Comments

Do not allow your administration page to get indexed by the search engines With this one simple line added to your robots.txt file you can avoid having your content management system (CMS) administration or login page indexed by the search engines. Disallow: /admin/ Note: change “admin” to whatever directory or page has your CMS login [...]

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10 Questions You Should Ask a Prospective SEO Company

Business Intelligence, Natural Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Tips and Tricks on February 26th, 2009 2 Comments

To compliment our “10 Questions You Should Ask a Prospective Web Design Company” we have put together this list of 10 questions you should ask any SEO company you may be interviewing. Not only will these questions give you a better understanding of who you are interviewing, but they should also raise any red flags [...]

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