New Browsers Everywhere
It seems that every day you are hearing about new browsers showing up to make your web surfing experience a little (or a lot) easier amd more fun. I thought I would post some good reviews that I have read on each of them. Today I read a very nice and thorough review of the […]
Not long ago I read that Google and others would soon be able to read the text content in Flash web pages. I thought at the time that many of the things that I have been saying about SEO and Flash are no longer true, but the more that I read about this the more […]
Positive Ways To Handle Negative Comments
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 just deleting the negative comments […]
Do You Want To Exchange Links?
Yesterday I got an email from a pool company in Virginia. They wanted to exchange links with me. “Please consider adding our link to your site on your page: https://lillicotch.com/Blog/2008/02/28/add-additional-income-to-your-site/” For those of you who don’t have blogs, when you allow visitors to post on your site you will get blog spam. Some of the […]
Finding Keywords For Your Site
One of the things that I tell my customers when we first start to design their site is to try to think of keywords that they should use in their content to help search engines find them. To put these keyword(s) in the headlines and once or twice in the main text. I have written […]
Giving Free Stuff Can Help You Make Money
I have always been a believer that especially on the web the best way to grow your site is to give something away for free. I first noticed this very early on when many of the webs first sites gave away many different things to grow. The most successful ones gave away information. There were […]
Still More Cool Free Open Source Tools
Here’s a list of some really great free open source software to replace many of the Windows programs that cost big bucks to buy. This list appeared recently on makeuseof.com. I have written about some of these tools and others before, but there are cool new ones here. It’s also nice to have a list […]
Happy 600th Blog Post
I was thinking what to do for this wonderful achievement and recently I have had several potential customers tell me that they want their blog to look like their site. When I tell them that I can make it look like whatever they want, they tell me “but your blog doesn’t match your site!” I […]
How To Make Friends With Search Engines
Just in case you haven’t noticed I’m a big believer in making a site that is friendly to the search engines to read and follow. I have had people tell me that most visitors will come to your site through recommendations from friends, other sites or from print ads, but I think that most site […]
Internal Links Can Be Valuable, Too
Internal links in your site, that is, links from one page in your site to another page in your site can be almost as valuable as links coming into your site from the outside. I have been experimenting with different ways to do this and they have all been working well. Word Press gives you […]
