Revisiting “Content is King” and Virality
Content is NOT king. It never has been. Your network is king. I’m not saying that your content shouldn’t be good. What I’m saying is that in a foot race, someone’s network can out hustle the greatest...
View ArticleTiered Links About to Take a Hit? Why co-citations matter more
We’re also looking at some ways to go upstream to deny the value to link spammers–some people who spam links in various ways. We’ve got some nice ideas on trying to make sure that that becomes less...
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Take Photoshop Images and Automatically Create CSS for Web Design
When you are designing a website, most likely you are starting the project in Photoshop to get a better idea of what you want but eventually you are going to have to dive into first the structure of...
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Marketing to the under 30 crowd? That Facebook Page is Probably Useless.
If you are an online marketer or simply a small business trying to improve your reach by using social networks, you may think that Facebook is the place to go. And it may…if your target market is 30+....
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Are You Practicing or Performing?
When I first started playing music in a band, we used to practice alot; 3 practices a week for 4 hour stretches and this didn’t include all the solo work that we put in. And we got tight…in...
View ArticleAmazon Paid Ads Strategies (A very Good Video)
I accidentally ran across this most excellent video from a seminar that Hollis Carter did. The Cliff’s note version of this is how to use Amazon Paid Ads to generate traffic and sales and build your...
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Why Shipping Too Early is a Good Thing
Just a quick thought today to mull over. Those of us who build stuff…. ….whether this is programming or some design tool or simply a book that will help someone with whatever problem they have….....
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How to Create Anchor Points in Your Articles with WordPress
In this article (The links below are “anchored” points in this article. Feel free to click on them.) Understanding the difference between anchor text links and anchor text points Do Anchor Points Have...
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How to market your business to the Clueless
A good friend of mine who I used to play music with gave me a call this past weekend. He was excited because he was in the middle of talks with a group of investors for his music. His plan is to...
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My Favorite Way for Cloaking Affiliate Links in WordPress (without a plug-in)
Most of my clients don’t need to cloak their links. Usually, they have their own products or a service and don’t need to do things like obfuscate an affiliate link. It comes up occasionally though...
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6 Things Distance Running Taught Me About Business
I have been running for roughly 12 years now (ever since I turned 30 and quit smoking). And over that decade, I have logged thousands of miles on the asphalt and treadmill. I don’t run as much...
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Understanding Responsive Design for the Average Webmaster
In this article: What Makes a Website Responsive? When You Should Consider a Responsive Design Does Responsive Design affect SEO? Options for Making Your Website Responsive (wordpress plug-ins,...
View ArticleHow to make YouTube Videos Resize According to Device
One of the biggest problems with placing videos on your website is that if you aren’t careful, your videos will be unwatchable on devices with smaller screens. For example, YouTube videos on this...
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Don’t Quit. Implement.
This is just a word of encouragement if you are struggling online and feel like you aren’t getting anywhere. Awhile back, I was teaching guitar to someone and we were going over chord based...
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The Loneliness of Social Media
(Or How Twitter can amplify exactly how alone you are….) I ran across a couple interesting articles this past week that has me thinking about social media…. But before I talk about them, understand...
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Email Marketing VS. Social Media- What should you do first?
A decent chunk of my business comes from small businesses who are interested in using social media to improve their online reach (I build them things like Facebook pages and give them insight into...
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How to Leverage Existing Content for More Traffic and Links
Something that has stuck with me over the last couple years was a statement involving natural link building that SEO Dan Thies mentioned (which is a play on the Drake Equation..real nerdy but...
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Beginning SEOxy Back
I smell something foul. Please, don’t get all excited. I’m not bringing SEO back; I want to move forward. Seek Danny Sullivan posts, tracing the evolution of SEO for better understanding of history....
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Reduce Image Size to Improve Website Speed (plus a free tool to do it)
I happen to host several dozen client’s websites (it’s part of my recurring income for my business). And some of my clients like to post pictures…lots of them. As a webmaster and the person who...
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The New Gmail Tri-Tiered Inbox- My take
If you do email marketing and happen to use gmail, you probably have noticed that Gmail has a new look for their inbox. For those who haven’t seen it, here it is…. Since this inception, I have gotten...
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