Web Design Charlotte
Yesterday I talked about using Google AdWords advertising to test to see what Google thinks of your site. Since then I was asked if a small business owner should put ads on his site. He was wondering if the ads would be helpful or if they would appear as tacky. These are my thoughts on [...]
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Need a quick way to see if Google can actually read your site? Here’s a great quick, cheap, and easy way to find out if Google is interpreting your site the way you want them to. Ready? Just add Google AdWords Google AdWords is part of the big G’s advertising arm. This is code you [...]
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Around Halloween, I asked the web development community about the worst problems they ever had with web hosting. I made my list and sent it out for comparison. Here are my notes in relation to my network’s insights. In short, I’ve hosted websites for over a decade and I’ve settled down to a few good [...]
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Not everything you do on-line comes with a cost in dollars. There is a ton you can do to promote your brand for free. Here’s a brief list. Create a personal LinkedIn Profile Create a LinkedIn Profile for your company Create Twitter feed for your company and synch your blog posts to it Update your [...]
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It’s Thanksgiving, and being a website designer in a banking town like Charlotte, North Carolina this means I have the day off. Perfect for doing a bunch of website maintenance, development, and re-design on my portfolio of sites. While it’s obviously Fall, here’s my Spring Cleaning checklist for my websites. Website Maintenance 1. Ran Auto-Upgrade [...]
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‘First, know thyself.‘ – Visitors to the Oracle at Delphi may have received this sage advice for a multitude of reasons. If the Oracle was still operating today, this would be the answer to ‘What do I put on my website?’ Unfortunately, we don’t have a sibyl or priestess we can ask for divine knowledge. [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving weekend, all. Here are links to some articles I’ve enjoyed this weekend. Will Customer Opinion Overtake Search? Great short article by Duct Tape Marketing musing over Google’s latest changes to their search formats incorporating more and more social networks. Will optimizing Twitter, FaceBook, etc be the new SEO? The new Black Friday. Google [...]
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A few weeks ago my website was hacked. The meta description field was corrupted thanks to a rogue plug-in. That lead to some poor results around the web. I’ve done the bulk of the needed clean up. No small task when you have literally hundreds of articles on your site. I’m down to the last [...]
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The quickest way to lose business? Easy. Don’t show up. Schedule a meeting and don’t show up. Promise to send something and don’t. Make plans to attend a function and bail. All businesses, even web-based businesses are based on trust. Trust can be granted or it can be earned. It most certainly can be eroded [...]
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