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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

Refine Your Focus: It’s Essential for Success

January 14, 2009

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When I first started Addicott Web, it was tempting to take any work that came along. Even though I might not have specialized in what the client was looking for, work is work, right?

Placing Sidebars: Do You Lean to the Right or the Left?

November 24, 2008

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To most people, where the sidebar navigation is on a website seem like something pretty insignificant. Chances are if you’re an average website user, it’s not something you give much thought to. But in the web design world, it’s something … Continue reading