Business owners tend to put the bulk of their online marketing time and budget into their website – and rightfully so, as all other online marketing platforms should ultimately drive traffic back to the website. Imagine their surprise when they …
Five Benefits of Virtual Private Hosting Over Shared Hosting
Choosing the right hosting package can be a difficult task, especially if you are not a technical person. There are three main options to choose from — Shared Hosting, Virtual Private Hosting, and Dedicated Hosting. Often businesses will just choose …
Using QR Codes to Expand Your Business Reach
You may have seen those funny little barcode boxes – on a product package, in a magazine ad, or on a “for sale” sign in front of a house – and wondered what they were for. They’re called QR or …
Why Should I Have a Google Plus Page?
In June 2011, Google unveiled Google Plus, its new platform intended to compete with Facebook. Like Zuckerberg’s invention, Google Plus offers profiles for individuals and pages for businesses. Its interface, while a bit clunkier, is similar to Facebook in that …
Why Your Business Needs a Facebook Page
Social media has made great strides in gaining a foothold in the business world over the last year. Yet it’s still an uphill battle to convince many entrepreneurs it’s worth their time to invest in the social media scene. Social …
Great Copy Sells
A lot of companies come to me looking for a new web site with all of the bells & whistles. They want Flash, video, lot of pictures, oh and yeah some content. Sometimes it seems like the copy is almost …
What is a CMS and do I need one?
CMS is an acronym for Content Management System. Your website can be built upon a Content Management platform which allows you to modify your own web site content directly in a browser. You just bring up your website in Internet …
Organizing Your WordPress Blog for SEO
WordPress offers a lot of flexibility when it comes to organizing your blog posts. You create blog categories and tags on the fly as you write each article. Other than having to put every article into a category (and it …
Web Site Writing Tips
Often clients want to save money by writing their own web site copy. Sometimes they just feel like no one else knows their business as good as they do, so who better to write the content for their web pages? …
Blogs & Spam
Unfortunately, blogs and spam seem to go together. Whenever you have a form on your web site – such as the comment form on your blog – you are opening yourself up to spam. Blocking Spam Luckily, WordPress has a plug-in …