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What is a “Small Business” Thinking?
What is a “Small Business” Thinking? Is this something that will help or hinder you as you ponder your business plans? It seems to me that if you use the web and think of the “face” of your business entirely on the web, that there really is no “small thinking”, that the leverage given to…
11 Reasons why your web site isn’t getting traffic
Overachieving graphics – By this I mean you want the pretty pictures but are not willing to write text to go along with it. Yes they will look at the picture, but unless you are cousin to a google engineer, the graphic alone won’t bring in visitors. Unless of course you are images.google.com Poor copy…
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Depersonalize Search – a quicker way
My last post about how to depersonalize search might have been too hard for the weary computer user, so here is a much quicker ( and efficient ) method. If you are using Firefox there is a plugin that you can install that does a great job – just point your browser to http://yoast.com/tools/seo/disable-personalized-search-plugin/ and…
Finding the right developer
If you ever want to hire a web developer please make sure you put your hosting service and your domain in your own name. This is the best advice I can give you for the long haul ahead in your internet presence. I recently spoke to someone who has a difficult problem because the web…
Server Logs confusion
Recently a client was talking to me about his hosting company’s stats on his website. Here was our correspondence. ed- hi, fat cow sent me my visitor stats for february- so far this month, 1,805 visits, 25,590 hits..thats the most for any month since august 2011. my response –
Using Word Press Menus
Follow along with this video to see how Word Press Menu System can work for you. Remember that sometimes your own theme has its own navigation system, which you can opt-in and opt-out on a click of a button. Click on this Posts Title to view the video.
Offers to publish reciprocal links
Almost weekly I get offers to put up a link to some other site, in return for their putting a link to my site. Almost always I decline for a variety of reasons. Some of these cases i could have done a bit of effort and made it whole, but if they haven’t done their…