http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog Website Design, Promotion and Search Engine Optimization, Pittsburgh PA - Simple Can Be Good Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:53:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Word of mout advertising has always been one of the best kind of promotion that you can have. People tend to believe referrals and references more than almost anything else. I have found out that these can be from people that they don't even know. The things that matter are ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/22/more-uses-for-word-of-mouth/ Here's something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Bored.com has many really great time wasters on their site and one of the pages I like best is Falling Sand. It's kind of a create your own science experiment/hypnotize yourself/just have some fun ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/18/friday-just-for-fun-site-falling-sand/ One of the things that I mention to my clients that want to start a blog and allow others to add content to their site is that besides blog spam you probably will get some commenters that don't like you or what you say. I usually say that instead of ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/17/positive-ways-to-handle-negative-comments/ Here's something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) I've been very busy this week and haven't had time for posting like I would want to, but I couldn't miss Friday Fun! Every year, Working America runs a national competition for America's worst ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/11/friday-just-for-fun-site-my-bad-boss-contest/ I have tried several different ways to have my meta title tags. Those are the descriptions that you see at the very top of the browser window that describe the page that your on. Search engines use these tags in different ways, including the text on the results page for your ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/08/should-you-use-the-domain-name-in-the-titls-tags/ I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/05/favorite-site-designs-langkawi/ There are many things about designing web sites that have changed from the beginning of cyber time and many things that haven't. I try to point out a well done site every week in my Favorite Site Design category. The truth is that while the look of well done websites has ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/03/good-web-design-hasnt-changed-that-much/ I'm a T-Mobile customer and have been for quite a while now. When I was shopping for a new smartphone I went to quite a few stores and spoke to many salespeople. When I finally found Ian Hoover at the Mall at Robinson store (lower level) I knew that I ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/02/selling-is-all-about-people/ I probably will still advise not using Flash for making the navigation for your pages, but Google is starting to look at your Flash pages with new eyes. They still probably won't see your site like your human visitors do, but it looks like things are getting better for them being ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/07/01/google-is-getting-better-at-reading-flash/ I have a page on my site with some of my favorite site designs that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of designs that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these site designs, they ... http://www.lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/06/29/favorite-site-designs-lucy-blackmore/