Blog Posts: Search/SEO
Social media may be harmful to your personal well-being (but it can still be good for your business)»
There are several studies and articles over the last few years (google: ‘facebook makes us sad’) pointing to social media decreasing our happiness and sense of well-being. And it’s not…
Google Offers Fresh Advice on SEO»
Google gets a bit cute (the idea for the “Googlebot” holding flowers comes from a post on Google’s blog entitled First Date with the Googlebot; unless you’re kind of a…
If My Reader Could Contain Only 10 Feeds»
I have a lot of blogs and news sources in my reader. So many I can’t possibly read them all every day and stil get any work done. But there…
Getting Started with Google Analytics»
Google Analytics is one of the simplest and quickest ways to understand what is happening with your website. This video, from WordPress, explains how and why to create a Google…
Fear of Blogging, and the Opportunity it Creates for People Who Aren’t Like Most People»
According to Seth Godin, there are two reasons people don’t buy (or do) things: 1. They don’t know about it. 2. They’re afraid of it. If you don’t know about…
ALL Small Business Websites Should be on a Blog Platform»
OK, there are probably a few exceptions to that statement. But for the most part, small businesses—say, 98%—that have either static websites or websites that are separate from their blogs…
How do You Find Your Blog Audience? You Don’t.»
That’s right: you don’t find your audience. They find you. Your job, as a blogger, is to make it easy for them to find you when they decide to look…
Do Static, Set-it-and-Forget-it Websites Still Have Value?»
It seems as though this question could be answered with a simple “yes” or “no” (I would argue “no”), but a conversation I had yesterday with Chris Madrid of New…
Jumping on the Blogging Bandwagon, or Not»
Bandwagons are lots of fun to jump onto: there are usually a lot of upbeat, excited people already there. Many of them are convinced the bandwagon is taking them to…
Handling Duplicate Content with the Canonical Tag»
Note: This is a GUEST POST by Edward Kung, owner of Seedin Web Development, a company in Vancouver, British Columbia, which provides complete web development solutions.One of the biggest problems…