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Why Your Business Website Should Have a Blog

January 5, 2010

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WordPress was originally intended, and is still widely used as, a blog tool, so it’s no surprise to me when clients who I’ve built WordPress websites for ask me about blogging on their new website. I always reply that I … Continue reading

How to Choose What SEO Keywords to Use

November 17, 2009

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When it comes to search engine optimization, most people know that it’s all about keywords and how you use them on your website. Web designers and content writers can tell you where and how to incorporate those keywords in your … Continue reading

9 Places to Insert Keywords on Your Website

September 23, 2009

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is essential to the success of most websites, and how you use your keywords is a big contributing factor to that success. It becomes even more important if you’re relying purely on organic search results to drive traffic to your website, rather than paid advertising. Continue reading

Last Things I Do Before Launching a Website

June 30, 2009

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Launching a website can be a very exciting, yet frantic, time for both my clients and myself. With the end of the project in sight, it’s easy to forget to do some of the basic things that can greatly affect … Continue reading

Avoid Duplicate Content on WordPress Websites

May 12, 2009

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WordPress is a great tool to build a website in, but when it comes to search engine optimization, there are a few areas where it needs some improvement. The issue of duplicate content is one of them, so I’d like … Continue reading

Top Google Tools to Use on Your Website

February 10, 2009

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Google provides a range of free tools to help you promote your website and achieve better placement within its search engine results. I use a few of these already, both on this website and for my clients. You might find … Continue reading

Using the ALT and TITLE Attributes Properly

February 3, 2009

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Web designers have two main ways to add descriptive text to page elements – the ALT attribute and the TITLE attribute. There is often some confusion about how these two attributes work, for they seem to work in similar ways. … Continue reading

SEO for WordPress: The META Tag Problem

January 30, 2009

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Earlier this week I wrote about some simple steps that you can take to help bolster SEO on your website. But the one thing I didn’t mention is that when you build your website in content management systems such as … Continue reading

Simple Steps to Bolster SEO on Your Website

January 28, 2009

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Although web designers don’t have to specialize in knowing all things SEO, it certainly can’t hurt if they know at least the basics. There are a lot of simple things that can be done when building a website for a … Continue reading