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Online Marketing Terms – SEO Edition
In: seo
6 Nov 2009A Guide To Online Marketing Terms – Part 2
This is the second part of my developing series on online marketing terms explained. This time we focus on some basic SEO-related terms you might come across.
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Search Engine Optimization is the process of fine tuning your website so that when your target internet surfer types a phrase [...]
Notes from Wordcamp Los Angeles
In: Wordpress
15 Sep 2009I attended my first WordCamp this weekend and had a great time listening to some info-filled presentations and mingling with my fellow nerds. :)
Here’s some nuggets I gleaned from the day….enjoy.
WordPress will soon run the world. Their other products include:
bbPress – lightweight, WP-style forum
BuddyPress – social network in a box
BackPress – shared code library for [...]
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- Tags: buddypress, cloud, ecommerce, green, mixergy, search, seo, video, wordcamp, Wordpress, wordpress mu
Matt Cutts – Wordcamp San Francisco 2009
In: Wordpress
24 Aug 2009Matt 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 [...]
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- Tags: google, matt cutts, san francisco, seo, video, wordcamp, Wordpress
Flash Is For Famous People!
In: Online Marketing
13 Aug 2009I 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 can [...]
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- Tags: flash, ranking, seo, websites
What A Blog Can Do, And What YOU Have To Do
In: Blogging Basics
4 Aug 2009First 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 with fresh content.
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- Tags: blogging, business, seo
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Notes & Resources from Wordpress for Business Meetup
In: Wordpress
20 Nov 2009The Southern California Wordpress Meetup was a lot of fun as usual. Natalie Maclees was our gracious host and even provided dinner for everyone. Wordpress provided swag, and Packt publishing gave away a free copy of their “Wordpress for Business Bloggers” book. We had a full group of awesome WP lovers at various levels of [...]