January 20, 2013

Keywords mean nothing unless you back them up with content. Improve your SEO by creating quality, relevant content for the search engines and your visitors

Tags: content, Google, relevant content, search, SEO, Wordpress

Category: Helpful Info, The Buzz

January 17, 2013

Ask yourself these 5 questions to help you discover how to distinguish yourself online. Then, act on the answers and make it happen.

Tags: distinguish yourself, online, website

Category: Helpful Info, The Buzz

January 14, 2013

Useful when changing domains or link structure, the 301 redirect is a status code that, when applied to a web page, automatically “redirects” the visitor to a different designated page. This also indicates to the search engines, etc. that the page has moved permanently and that they need to update their records with the new address. Read on for the benefits…

Tags: 301 Redirect, domain, Google, redirection, Wordpress

Category: Helpful Info, The Buzz

November 9, 2012

We are starting a weekly infographic series to highlight some of the infographic awesomeness we come across in our online meanderings. In case you are not familiar with what an infographic is, an infographic is the graphic representation of a large amount of data or different types of data.  Think of it like this:  You have a 30 min. report that you have to present to your board of directors and they only have 5 min. for you to get the point across.  Instead of laying out all of the details of the entire report, you pick out the most [...]

Tags: awesome, infographic

Category: The Buzz

October 29, 2012

For smartphone optimized websites, “responsive” web design is Google’s recommended configuration. Read more to find out why Google takes this position and what you can do about it.

Tags: Google, mobile search, responsive web design, smartphone optimized website

Category: Helpful Info, The Buzz

October 10, 2012

What is #WPQA? Over the last couple of months we noticed that a lot of people on Twitter were asking variations of the same questions about WordPress but had no way of comparing or collaborating on the answers.  After helping several of these people with everything from the CSS of a theme, to recommended WordPress hosting, to the difference between self-hosted WordPress and WordPress.com, we decided to dig deeper and explore a way to get the questions and their answers into one place and accessible to anyone who needed them.  Enter the Twitter hashtag #WPQA. The problem Since we don’t [...]

Tags: twitter, Wordpress, Wordpress Questions and Answers, WPQA

Category: The Buzz

October 8, 2012

According to the InsideAdWords blog, this month Google is extending some US-based small to medium size businesses invitations to participate in Adwords Business Credit, a credit card  specifically for Google’s AdWords service.  Hold on one sec…did I just say an AdWords credit card?  Yes.  I did.  :) What does this mean for you and your small business?   Well, probably not a whole lot right now since it is invite only at this point.   But, that being said, if and when Google opens this program up to all businesses, or if you have received an invite already, it will be an easier [...]

Tags: AdWords, AdWords Credit Card, Google, small business

Category: The Buzz

September 29, 2012

If you use Facebook, Twitter and/or Linkedin to grow your social media presence, you should be using Buffer.  This awesome web app increases the chances follower interaction by scheduling your posts to Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin for when they will most likely be looked at and interacted with. How can you use Buffer? Excellent question.  Imagine this scenario:  You have a product launch coming up and you need to get the word out to your followers.  You know they interact with you but you don’t know exactly when so it’s hard to gauge when the best time to post is. [...]

Category: Helpful Info, The Buzz

September 19, 2012

Hey folks, this is a follow up to our previous post, “Twitter’s Profile Update: Make Your Profile Yours”, which was about the new Twitter profile header image feature and how users can use it to help spread their brand messages, etc. In the last post we explained how to get yours going and what you might use it for and in this post, we will feature some of the creativity already being displayed with the Twitter profile header image. Here are some examples of the new Twitter header image in action: Update 9/20/2012: Added the following: Do you have a cool Twitter [...]

Tags: twitter, twitter profile, twitter profile image, twitter update

Category: The Big Cloud, The Buzz

September 18, 2012

Update as of 9-19-2012: See more Twitter profiles with unique header images and get yours added to the list here What the new Twitter Profile looks like: (Mobile website) The skinny: Twitter released a new version of it’s Profile page today which features a header area that you can upload a photo to.  The change was rolled out to Twitter’s iPhone, iPad, and Android apps as well as it’s mobile and regular website.  It would seem that with this change, Twitter’s goal is to bring more focus on a user’s profile which, in my opinion, is a bit overdue and [...]

Tags: twitter, twitter profile, twitter update

Category: Helpful Info, The Buzz