Grow Traffic and Online Presence through Consistent Blogging
These days blogging and curating content are easy ways to help any small business’ online presence. Mr. Poburan from CategoryCode explains in his Blogging, SEO and Website Traffic – The Domino Effect post that it’s simple to gain traffic to your website by blogging quality content, it just takes time. “…when we combine blogging and…
Read MoreSmall Business Habits Leading to Greatness
Own a small business? Want to be the big dog? Want to be on top of the game in your industry? Since our clients are small businesses everywhere, we try to keep up on ways to help them improve business in any way possible. A recent article on Forbes, 7 Habits of Great Small Business…
Read MoreFive Ways to Secure Your Hosting Account
After dealing with some site/server security issues with one of our clients recently, 5 Ways to Secure Your Hosting Account is a very timely article we found that may help you avoid such a circumstance. The average webmaster probably needs to spend between 4 and 8 hours boosting the security of their websites, accounts, and servers. Hopefully…
Read MoreOnline Marketing Tools for Small Business Owners
We attended the Dallas SEO/SEM Meetup last night regarding Tips and Tools to Help Small Businesses Succeed. Christine Churchill from KeyRelevance was able to recommend several tools for online marketing that small business owners can use to gain more traction online. Here are just a few of them:
Read MoreFree Design Tools to help Ease Web Design Workflow
Finding material that can be used by graphic designers to help ease workflow is sometimes hard. According to a recent article by Template Monster, the best place to start looking, of course, is online. Anything from fonts and icons, to color schemes and custom forms can be found. These online tools, found on Adam’s post,…
Read MoreContent Curation and Re-Blogging Tips & Strategies
Content curation, often known as re-blogging, is the sharing and redistribution of blog posts, social media, and other forms of online publication to your network of users with your commentary, praise, or critique. Almost everyone has done it, just by sharing a Facebook picture or retweeting your favorite quote.
Read MoreGoogle Testing New Image Search Preview
It looks like Google is testing a new version of their image search preview function. Please note that you may not experience the same visual experience, as it appears they are only rolling this out to certain users (A/B Testing).
Read MoreAdding a Free Business Listing to CitySearch
If you are trying to add your business (or a client’s business) to CitySearch, you may notice that there is no visible option (at this time, at least). Luckily, Phil over at Local Visibility System got hold of a solution, which he details in this article, How to Add a Free CitySearch Business Listing. Basically,…
Read MoreMake Copyright the Current Year on PHP Website
We’ve got a quick tip today. If you are using WordPress or another PHP based platform, you can place the following code in your footer, next to a copyright ( © ) symbol and it will always display the current year. Note: The code in the snippets below needs to be in <? ?> php…
Read MoreRename WordPress Admin Menu Items in Custom Template or Theme
If you have purchased a theme from TemplateMonster or another WordPress theme site, it is likely that some of the custom post types used to create things like portfolio, client, or testimonial pages, as well as the URLs that those pages write to, may not be named optimally. Most recently for us, we had a…
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