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  • More on Moving Old Websites

    More on Moving Old Websites

    I’ve written before about moving large websites, but I’m currently in the midst of moving the content of a wonderful, huge, old website to its new, even more wonderful WordPress home, and I’m realizing that there are a lot of issues I didn’t mention.

  • Spoke for Business

    Spoke for Business

    Spoke is an information sharing site where you can combine a little original content with curated content of many different kinds to create a page for your business. You can also build topic pages and add links to your business, especially deep links to the great information you’ve created at your website. Unlike Wikipedia, Spoke…

  • 10 Quick Linkbuilding Ideas

    10 Quick Linkbuilding Ideas

    Search engines know that they can’t make judgements about quality of websites as well as humans can on some levels. Bing doesn’t know how beautiful your pictures are, Google can’t gauge the lyricism of your writing or the accuracy of your information. Because of this, the major search engines use links as part of their…

  • SEO Tip #29: Video and SEO

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  • Site Maps

    Site Maps

    A client wrote last night asking, “Is it not possible to tell Google the sitemap directly?…  Can you not just tell Google the layout and have it appear appropriately?”

  • New Social Media Option: Pinterest

    New Social Media Option: Pinterest

    Pinterest is the new kid on the block in social media. It’s a site where you can post links to pictures and create “boards” which are your own curated collections of pictures. At Pinterest you’ll find girls’ collections of pictures of wedding dresses, boards of people’s favorite TV shows, assemblages of favorite fonts, and pages…