September 19, 2011 By 1 Comment

Seven Reasons Why Websites Still Matter

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Does having your own website still matter?
Why build your own website when you can use Facebook?
Should you use Facebook exclusively?

It’s true, Facebook and Twitter have become the most popular websites used by people for social interaction. Many businesses now use these social media platforms to interact with their customers and build awareness of their brands. Perhaps you’re thinking you should just build a Facebook Fan page and forget about your building and maintaining your own website.

Here are 7 reasons why websites still matter:

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September 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

How To Create Multiple Slide Shows For WordPress Web Pages

Want to rotate multiple photos on your WordPress web pages?
Want your images to fade into each other?
Want to place 2 or more slide shows on the same page?

One of the great ways to showcase your products or services is to rotate a series of images on a web page. It not only saves space but you can place it in a prominent location (ie top of the page or in a sidebar) so visitors can view it immediately when visiting your website.

How to Create a Single slideshow

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September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Ways to Increase YouTube Views – Top 10

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YouTube (at the time of this writing) is currently ranked number 3 in the world (according to Alexa) and number of 4 in the United States. It’s also the number 2 search engine right behind Google which is number 1. This means many people are typing keywords into YouTube to find answers to their questions displayed in video format.

It you’re not currently using YouTube to generate traffic to your website you’re missing out on a lot of potential visitors who want to purchase your products and/or services.

10 ways to increase YouTube views

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September 4, 2011 By 1 Comment

How to Improve Your Web Page Speed


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Web page speed is one of the main factors search engines use to rank your web pages. Don’t expect to gain high rankings if you have a slow loading website. The faster the better. Most people use fast internet connections so they want websites to appear within a few seconds. If not, they lose patience and surf over to your competition.

7 ways to speed up your web page

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September 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Should I Use Flash On My Website?

Many website owners want to build their business website using Flash to WOW their visitors. The problem is that flash content doesn’t get indexed by the search engines and therefore your site will not gain high rankings. Search engines only index textual content, not images, video or javascript. It may be possible to get your flash site ranked if you have lots of high quality links pointing to your flash web page however it will take a great amount of effort. Also there is no guarantee it will work because you’ll be competing with non-flash sites.

Why You Shouldn’t Use Flash

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August 13, 2011 By 3 Comments

WordPress Ecommerce Plugins: Which Plugin Is Best To Build Your Online Store?

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The beauty about building an ecommerce store using WordPress is that you incorporate a content management system. This enables you to easily add great articles about your products which results in attracting more traffic from the search engines and getting your visitors to return. You will also have an RSS feed so visitors can subscribe to your content plus they can leave comments on your blog.

Since there are so many Ecommerce WordPress Plugins (free and paid) I’m just going to look at the features of the 3 most popular ones, then install each of them separately to see which one I prefer and why.

The type of plugin you select will depend on what your needs are. For instance if you’re just selling an ebook on your WordPress Website simply open up a PayPal account and insert the html code for a “Buy Now” button image. You even have the option to use your own image. You don’t need to install an ecommerce plugin.

If you’re selling 100s or 1000s of hard goods (in my case it’s gift items for a retail store) you”ll need a more robust solution…a plugin that can easily manage 1000s of products.

Let’s look at the features of 3 popular WordPress Ecommerce Plugins

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Authority Site: How to Build An Authority Site In 7 Steps

The internet Gurus tell you to write lots of content to attract visitors and increase your website’s rankings in the search engines. This is only partially true because just adding content doesn’t guarantee your content will be found. Your website may contain 1000s of web pages but if no one reads it or finds it in the search engines you will never build an authority site.

The size of your website won’t affect it’s authority in Google or the other search engines.

So what is an authority site?

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August 8, 2011 By 2 Comments

WordPress Ecommerce Plugin: Top 7 features To Look For When Choosing a Plugin

I’ve used Zencart to build ecommerce websites over the past few years because it was free and included many great features. One of the biggest factors for switching to WordPress is that Zencart did not include a content management system. WordPress also allows me to easily install an ecommerce plugin for selling digital or physical products.

Since there are so many WordPress Ecommerce Plugins available I wanted to offer some options in this article to help people decide what plugin to use.

Why choose WordPress?

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August 5, 2011 By 2 Comments

Website Design: 4 ways to come up with a beautiful design for your business website

Designing a professional website for your business should not be taken lightly because first impressions count. When visitors first see your website they only take a few seconds to decide whether to stay or leave. Your best solution is to hire a professional website designer because it’s what they do every day and have probably been building websites for many years. They will match the design with your business and build it in such a way that it will be search engine friendly.

But what if you want to design your own website?

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June 17, 2011 By 1 Comment

Drop Down Link Menu Box With Automatic Redirect

  • Want to create a drop down link menu that automatically redirects to any web page?
  • Want to link to related topics on the same web page?

Recently I designed a static website for a client containing multiple categories and sub categories. I initially suggested to the client to use a content management system such as WordPress however since he recently purchased the latest copy of Dreamweaver he insisted using this software to build and manage the website.

Since some pages would link to multiple resources I decided to build a drop down link menu to make it easy for visitors to find pages from the page they are currently viewing.

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