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Top 4 reasons your beautiful website doesn’t convert

Nov
2011
Categories: Websites Also tagged: ,

There can be many pitfalls on the way to getting traffic to that beautiful site you created. All the design and creativity in the world won’t bring visitors to your site. You have to know a few basic laws of optimizing a webpage for search before the traffic will begin to flow in your direction. [...]

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Ultimate blogger’s guide to search engine optimization

Jun
2011
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In the competitive world of search engine optimization (SEO), your business blog is a critical tool for your success. Why is blogging so important to your search engine visibility? Because search engines serve up web pages—not websites—when people ask a question. And here’s the important part: Every blog post is a new web page and every [...]

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Tips and must-haves for your ecommerce platform

Mar
2011
Categories: Business Also tagged: ,

Choosing an eCommerce platform can be a terribly frustrating experience because of the options and packages available, the misinformation, the pushy sales reps, the time and money investment, and so on. I want to talk about this decision because of this experience, but I don’t plan on making any platform recommendations. No, no. That’s really [...]

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Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else

Jan
2011
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A few months ago I wrote about WordPress Security. Now, armed only with the words “free WordPress themes,” builtBackwards’ Theme Authenticity Checker Plugin and Donncha O Caoimh’s Exploit Scanner, I’m going to take a look through the first page of Google to see just how safe pages ranking for “Free WordPress Themes” are. Read More [...]

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Your Professional Profile from Profiled.com

Jan
2011
Categories: Websites Also tagged: ,

Profiled.com is the place for you to define, monitor and manage your online business reputation with our unique and free ‘Reputation Toolkit’. Your profile, your information, you’re in control – and it’s all free. It’s easy to set up your profile in just 3 minutes and the rest it at your fingertips – with your [...]

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Google’s SEO Report Card

Sep
2010
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How many of Google’s web pages use a descriptive title tag? Do we use description meta tags? Heading tags? While we always try to focus on the user, could our products use an SEO tune up? These are just some of the questions we set out to answer with Google’s SEO Report Card. Google’s SEO [...]

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SEO: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

Sep
2010
Categories: Websites

SEO. You hear the term all the time, but how do you actually rank higher in the search engines? I know when I first heard the term, it sounded like some voodoo magic that only a few people understood how to use. The reality is, SEO isn’t rocket science. Some gurus would have you believe [...]

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SEO Book.com

Jun
2010
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Want to Learn SEO? The SEO Book Training Program consists of over 100 cross referencing online training modules that allow you to learn SEO one piece at a time. Many modules also include how to videos and other bonuses like spreadsheets of common keyword modifiers and an example of aligning keyword research data with site [...]

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List of Best and Worst practices for designing a high traffic website

Apr
2010
Categories: Websites Also tagged: ,

Here is a checklist of the factors that affect your rankings with Google, Bing, Yahoo! and the other search engines. The list contains positive, negative and neutral factors because all of them exist. Most of the factors in the checklist apply mainly to Google and partially to Bing, Yahoo! and all the other search engines [...]

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Ever wondered what people really search for on Google?

Mar
2010
Categories: Uncategorized Also tagged: ,

Hehehe – this is amusing, a collection of the weird and wonderful search options from the autocomplete function in the Google search bar… http://autocompleteme.com/

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