Upgrade Your Static Website to a Dynamic Web Portal

The internet has evolved considerably since its early days when it was used primarily by scientist to share files. From those humble beginnings, the internet became home to millions of web sites; most of which featured static pages with content that rarely if ever changed. Because of the rapid increase in social media applications such as blogging and sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Myspace,... [Read more]

Someone Found Your About Us page – Be Happy!

These days, getting discovered on the web is incredibly hard. Something that will help you get discovered (and improve your rankings) is if you will stop thinking of your homepage as the only page that will be found by search engines.  In fact, start optimizing every page on your site because visitors can arrive on any page and they can leave just as quickly if the page they land on is not relevant... [Read more]

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Social Media – Now is The Time To Connect Your Business

Can you define Social Media?  If you can’t, you are not alone.  Social Media is one of those terms that people think they should know, but most are not sure what it means.  That’s ok for now.  Today only.  Why?  Because social media is already having an impact on your business; most likely a negative impact if you don’t know what it means. Social Media Defined Do a search for... [Read more]

Don’t get Social Media – Too Bad

Twitter.  Facebook. Linkedin. Myspace. These are not just sites where kids post their pictures any more.  They are legitimate business marketing tools.  Whether you get it or not, and whether you like it or not, the internet and social media sites are where your customers turn to research products and make buying decisions.  If they don’t find you there, there will be something else you... [Read more]

Photographers. Is your website designed to be Googled?

Get Your Photography Website Discovered on the Internet The internet provides a perfect vehicle for photographers to market their businesses. Through websites, blogs, and social media sites, photographers can easily show their work to the world. The internet offers marketing opportunities that will have your ideal customers calling you. Taking advantage of these marketing opportunities is simple.... [Read more]

Get the most from your blog – search engine optimization for Wordpress

Another informative posting from Website Magazine.  This one on optimizing your blog to be found by search engines. If you don’t know, search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, bing) like to be told about your website and content in specific ways.  If you make sure your website and blog postings speak their language, they will do their best to tell the world about your website or blog when someone... [Read more]

Twitter for Business and Search Engine Results

Website Magazine had an excellent blog posting yesterday on Twitter accounts showing up in Google search results.  Actually it was the second of a three part series where they are noting what happens over time to Twitter accounts in search results.  You can read the first installment here.  For example, when you search for “Chicago Public Golf”, the Twitter account is in fifth position... [Read more]

Are you blogging? If not outsource it.

Blogging is one of the best ways to improve your search engine results The reason is that consistent blogging adds new content to your web site.  Pretty simple.  Every time you write a blog, you create new content.  Search engines like that. There are couple of keys to blogging.  Today I am going to tell you about the most important key.  Ready.  The most important key is doing it.  Consistently... [Read more]

Tell search engines about your web site through keywords

To get found on the web, it helps to understand what a search engine is and how they work.  Google, Yahoo, and MSN (now bing) are search engines and use programs to visit and make a record of every web page in the world, which is referred to as crawling (visiting) and indexing (making a record).  They do this so that when you type keywords into the search box, they can return a list of websites that... [Read more]

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