A Dream Wedding by Sharon Replaces Their Old Bludomain Flash Website with a New WordPress Site

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Well known San Diego wedding planner Sharon Cole of A Dream Wedding by Sharon contacted me regarding improving her search engine marketing and internet presence.  For a number of years she had been using a Bludomain website but recently found that with increasing competition, her … [Read more...]

How to Import Your Website Blog into Your Facebook Business Page

Here is the how-to for automatically importing your website's blog posts onto your Facebook business page. It is not very complicated, but it is not very intuitive either so it made sense to share the instructions in a short video. As I mention in the video it can take a while … [Read more...]

Measurements – Four Favorite WordPress Stat/Analytics Plugins for your Site’s Dashboard

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One of the treats with a WordPress based website is how easy it is to measure results of your posts and other marketing activity.  What gets measured gets done and the plugins discussed in this post can help.  Of course you can get all this from Google Analytics, and if your … [Read more...]

New website for Midnight Magic Studios a growing wedding videography business.

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Don Samples of Midnight Magic Studios in Knoxville TN works hard and makes really great wedding videos.  He has been a long time client and I adapted the first Kertesz release for use as his website starting in 2008 using WordPress 2.5. So it seems very unfair that his site was … [Read more...]

Selecting a Domain Name for SEO and Search Marketing Maximization

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Later this week I am working with two different clients to select new domain names for websites that have been up for about a year. Both are small businesses. In one case the domain name seems huge.  It is 30 characters before adding any of the http:// or .com which is another … [Read more...]

Free Do It Yourself Search Engine Optimization

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It has become pretty clear to almost everyone that online search has eclipsed yellow pages advertising as having the best value and greatest results. Even for local business. Thirty years ago it was not unusual to see business paying $3,000 per month for a full-page front section … [Read more...]

After the Deadline – Firefox and Chrome Spell, Grammar and Style Checker

If your activities or work include filling out forms online using a web-browser, and you are not already using After the Deadline (AtD), you should consider giving it a try. After the Deadline is a language checker for the web with: Contextual Spell Checking Advanced Style … [Read more...]

HVAC professional’s new website helps slam him with new business.

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When I do a website for a client there are effectively three customers I consider; the website owner,  search engines and the prospective customer of the website owner's goods/services. For success, all three need to "like" the website. When Dennis Grimes asked me if I thought … [Read more...]

New Kertesz replacement upgrade with complete WordPress 3.0 and up goodness – Get It Now!

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The theme upgrade for Kertesz and Kertesz II site owners is now available!  As is my policy for compatibility, security and to make sure that my clients have every possibility of getting the best results for their site, the theme upgrade files are no charge. To receive the theme … [Read more...]

Is Flash soon to be the new Betamax?

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Some people are choosing to view the discussion around Flash and iPhones/iPads as Apple versus Adobe.  I think a better perspective simply centers on open web standards, improving technology and what is best for content distribution/use. Many consumer electronics and internet … [Read more...]