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Tips for a Better Website

Avoiding Penalties from the Link Police

April 17, 2013 › Search Engine Optimization A.K.A. SEO • Tips for a Better Website • Web Site Design
Link Police -- Avoiding Penalties from the Search Engines

When it comes to SEO, make it a point to ensure that your website links are safe, which means simply that your links are honest, clean and built so that they won’t prompt Google to penalize your site. There are links which are considered spammy or low-quality in the eyes of the Google bots. There [...]

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Have You Hugged Your Website Lately?

January 31, 2013 › Tips for a Better Website
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Ok, so you’re really not gonna hug your website but hopefully I got your attention. The point I’m trying to make is to care about your website! If you’re a website owner and you’re not researching and implementing ways to make your site better on some kind of consistent time-frame, you should be. I can’t [...]

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Take the Vanilla OUT of Your Site Content

November 24, 2011 › Blogging • Tips for a Better Website • Web Site Design
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I don’t know about you but when I read a book, a website, a blog or other media I like to be informed, entertained or maybe amused. I want to feel the fear if I’m reading a thriller or mystery. Maybe I need a good case of the giggles or I might want to make [...]

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Using Images in Web Sites

March 21, 2011 › Tips for a Better Website

Are you interested in displaying photos in the design of your website? Good for you! When done right, photos in the design itself can really give your web site a finished, impressive and very professional look. They can make what could have been an ordinary, mundane or downright boring looking site stand out in the [...]

Read More display quality artwork on your web site, professional graphic designers, professional photographers, stock images and photos used in websites

Is Your Website too Big for its Britches?

December 5, 2010 › Tips for a Better Website

I visited a very popular and well known womens beauty products website earlier this week because I had a question about one of their products. First I had to wade through the “find your country” thing – well, I told you it was a well known product. They’re an International company and they’re also the [...]

Read More can people contact you on your website?, contact forms on websites, make contacting you user-friendly

Need Help Choosing Your Domain Name?

November 4, 2010 › Tips for a Better Website

Choosing your website’s domain name could very well be one of the most important decisions you ever make. It not only brands your business but can brand you as well. You want it to be meaningful, easy to remember and relate to your product or service. Considering so many domain names are already taken, this [...]

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Why You Should Avoid PopUps on Your WebSite

August 27, 2010 › Tips for a Better Website • Web Site Design

I’m sure you’ve been there … gone to a website and had one or more windows pop up in your face without having been prompted by you clicking something? They pop up, they dance, they flash, they slide in, they wiggle, they float in from one side of the page and float out the other, [...]

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