Lost in Translation

Some people don’t have the time to work on improving their sites search engine rankings and attracting more customers, so they hire me.

Some people don’t have the money to hire me but have the time and want to do it themselves.

Assuming your website code is already optimized for search engines, I’ve got a few steps you can take to help draw traffic to your site. A lot of this information is Google-specific, since that is what I am most asked about. However, much of this can apply to other search engines too. Here are 10 things you can do to drive traffic to your site. Read the rest of the article here…

For those of you hosting with GeekArtist Web Solutions, this is important information. cPanel has come out with a major release so a few changes have been implemented on the server.

cPanel is the control panel you use to log into your website and mange aspects such as adding email addresses, domains, and so on. Read the rest of the article here…

A while back I wrote an article on How to Stay on Google’s Good Side. That post addressed guidelines for your website to help placement in Google.

Next, how about some SEO-specific information?

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Well, we’re adjusting to the new schedule (such as it is) with the kids. Meanwhile, I’m already back in the saddle and working on daily business matters. So new posts to this blog will be appearing in the next week or so.

I, like many others in my field, see the term Web 2.0 and cringe. More so when used inappropriately. Then we hear and see people in our own field using it inappropriately, and groan and smack our foreheads.

This, like a lot of lingo, is often thrown around without a real understanding of what it is and what it means.

Let me put it like this: I’ve avoided jobs where I saw postings from people stating they want someone who understood Web 2.0. Or that they wanted a Web 2.0 website. Because I would have to ask them, “What do you mean by Web 2.0? What does Web 2.0 mean to you in this context?”. And they’ll decide that I’m the idiot here and clearly I don’t know anything. After all, EVERYONE knows what Web 2.0 is, right?

It is almost physically painful for me to hear someone to ask, “Do you know Web 2.0?”. Read the rest of the article here…