SEO, Where To Start?
The question that I seem to get most often is “How do you get a site found on Google?” I believe that Google likes it better if they discover your site through their own efforts rather than having you submit to them. This is my own opinion, but I have seen cases where a brand […]
What In The World Is There To Write About?
Today seems to be one of those days where I just can’t seem to get my mind around a topic to write about. Web design and promotion is something that I read quite a bit about and I am constantly saving addresses to use in this blog so I have several ideas for a post, […]
Simpsonizeme Not Working
Many people have been visiting my post Friday Just For Fun Site – Turn Your Photo Into a Simpsons Character and most have been searching for something like “Simpsonizeme Not Working”. In fact, it’s been my most popular post ever and it makes me think that the Simpsonizeme site is just too busy to work […]
Help Manage Freelance Work
One of the best things about being a freelance worker is that you can make your own schedule. You can work or not depending on what you want to do. Unfortunately because of that unless you get yourself into some good work habits it’s too easy to take the “not work” choice. It is also […]
More Good Things From Google For Webmasters
I have written before about Google Webmaster Help, but I haven’t talked about Google Webmaster Tools. This is a great resource for anyone who owns a website that lets you know many things about how Google sees your site. They give you reports that you can download about how they crawl and index your site. […]
Which Links Are Best?
I was reading a post on the searchenginewatch By Justilien Gaspard called “Exploiting Your Current Backlinks and Link Referrals” where he talks about how links that you already have are often taken for granted. That’s very true, it’s much easier to get help from people who already know you and your site than someone new. […]
Hotlinking Images – Don’t Do It
There is a post on the blogoscoped site dealing with people getting high rankings by hotlinking images from other sites. It’s an interesting idea, but now that the word is out I’m sure search engines will change and this practice will not work any more. In case you don’t know, a hotlinked image is one […]
What Good Are Wikipedia Links?
Wikipedia in an effort to combat posting spam changed all of their links to “nofollow”. What that means is that search engines will no longer apply any page rankings from the Wikipedia site to the linked site. Whether the spiders follow those links or not is not known for sure. Does that mean it’s not […]
Marketing Help For A Small Business
I am always on the lookout for good ideas to market my small business. One of the first thing that I advise my clients is to start a mailing list. When I first started this business all I had was a list of names of people that I had kept in touch with through e-mails. […]
Why Do We Need A Website?
Today I’m meeting with a potential new customer. This is a group of people who are divided on whether they need a site or not. A couple of them are pushing hard to have one and they have asked me to speak to them today. Rather than giving them the hard sell and telling them […]
