Archive for August, 2009

Matt Cutts is a blogger and head of Google’s Webspam team. On his blog he gives a lot of great information regarding SEO and ranking well in Google. He gave a fairly in-depth talk at this year’s Wordcamp San Francisco, basically about how awesome WordPress is for SEO purposes. The video of his talk was [...]

Hunting for WordPress themes can be a challenging task. Not only are there aesthetics and functionality to consider  – does my theme look good and work the way I want it to?  But there’s also the issue of reliability. How well is the theme supported, is it stable, have bugs been worked out, is it [...]

I frequently see young fledging artists and businesses using Flash to make a fancy- looking website thinking it will allow them to play in the big leagues, and set them apart from your average upstart. But this strategy is like playing in a beautiful stadium with no-one in the audience. Here’s some reasons why that [...]

First the facts: 1) A blog integrated into your business website can help your search engine rankings: a) Search engines like regularly updated content. Many business sites are informative but not updated very often so are hard to keep at the top of the rankings. Blogs can and should be updated on a regular basis [...]


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