If you know me well enough, you'll know that I tell all of my clients to start Blogging. Many people get excited about it, yet aren't sure what to Blog about. There are Blog idea lists all over the Internet. Well... here's mine You can Blog about: The last conversation topic you had with a client. Blog about your industry news. Just ty...

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Matt Cutts from Google just confiirmed what most of us already knew... Google doesn't use the keywords meta-tag at all. The bottom line is that if you don't want to show visitors the words on your website, they shouldn't count. This makes sense, because there are some less than honest people who would try to incorporate their competitor names in th...

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Okay people- Time to use our heads. We all know that Social Media is great. It allows us to connect with people we know, people we want to know, and people we didn't know we wanted to know. While more and more people feel comfortable giving their credit card info online when making a purchase, it's the users themselves posing potentially high secur...

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Search Engine Optmization for your website is a lot more that just adding the correct meta keywords (which are all but irrelevant these days) to the code of your website. Essential to any good Search Engine Optimization strategy is getting incoming links from other websites. Incoming links aren't the only part of a good Search Engine Optimization s...

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*POW* I just gave you your own cable channel and told you that you can promote your business with it however you want. Would you accept it? Of course you would! Now what if I told you you have the same ability with your website? Unfortunately, a lot of businesses don't utilize it, but you can treat your website as your own all-in-one media channel...

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I had a ball last week when I gave the Social Media seminar at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce. We had about 20 people there with all varying degrees of Social Media experience. Some people were very much into Twitter and Blogging and some heard the words for the first time, but I tried to start by correctly defining each. Some technical problem...

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"Everyone else has a website" is not a good website plan when deciding to get online or redo your current website. Getting your website plan is a lot like establishing a business plan with the following categories: Name: You've put a lot of effort into naming your business. You should put the same thought into the domain name for your w...

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Congratulations, you've finally decided to get a website for your business. Communication during the build of your website is critical in getting you the final product that you want. I've compiled a checklist that might help you communicate what you want from your website. What is your company's mission statement? What is your Elevator ...

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Let me start with a quote from a post on the Official DMOZ Blog titled "R-E-S-P-E-C-T for DMOZ" which attempts to convince people how great their directory is: "Everybody loves Google, everybody loves Wikipedia - so why doesn't everybody love DMOZ?" Oh, let me count the ways. First, let me explain to those who might not be familiar with DMOZ...

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