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If you haven’t yet claimed your Google Places Map listing, you better do it quick. What’s new: Now, whenever you “Google” a type of business, say, “web design in Williamsburg VA”, the Local Business Results appear at the top, center, and can completely take up the page. They’ve moved their Google Places Map to the […]
LaPraya McCoy, a reporter with the Daily Press, one of the large newspapers serving Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA, has contacted us for help with an article she is writing. Here is the email she sent us: “Hi, I hope all is well. I am currently working on a story about why people multitask and […]
Bring a laptop to this hands-on workshop and create a FREE WordPress blog for yourself, as well as learn what a blog is and why you should blog, how the WordPress CMS (Content Management System) works, how to create posts and add static images and links, and how to moderate comments.
Here’s a great article on how to manage your on line reputation: manageyourbuzz.com/reputation-management. Of course, they’re trying to sell you a service/subscription (aren’t they all?), but still great info on managing your brand on the Internet. Tip: Some of the links in this article take you to a page where you must subscribe to their […]
It’s important to use your keywords in the titles and descriptions of your website’s images. This is called “alt text”, and search engines “see” this as well. Keywords are also important to have in your content throughout your website–not just on the home page.
The Saints won the Super Bowl. Gotta love it! In our last post, DIY Website Optimization, Step 1, we discussed what keywords are and how to determine the best ones for your website. In this post, we will discuss what to do with them. We’ll start with “On-page SEO”, or the on-page optimization of each […]
For those of you that do not know what DIY is it means “Do It Yourself”. Welcome to Step 1 of optimizing your website yourself. What is Website Optimization? Website Optimization, also called Search Engine Optimization or SEO, is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a website from search engines. […]
