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How to Manage Your Content for Best Search Engine Results
If your website is built on a content management system (CMS), you've got a powerful tool in your hands. You can use your CMS to keep all of the information on your site up-to-date, provide fresh and engaging information to your site visitors and manage all of your...
Your Website: It’s About Time
Websites offer a seemingly endless amount of space for your content, especially compared to traditional media like print or broadcast. For a relatively small hosting fee, you can literally publish entire libraries of text. An average 500 MB hosting account has enough...
By the Numbers: Believe What You See
Contrary to what some people might think, website statistics were not invented by the Brothers Grimm. They're not fairy tales, nor are they numbers pulled out of thin air by College Johnnies who want to show how smart they are. Website statistics are built on...
5 Things to Consider Before Starting Your New Website Project
So you've decided you need a new website, or your existing website needs a facelift? Not so fast! Before you choose a website developer and spend your money on a new website, there are several things you need to consider carefully in order to get the most out of...
Google Hate Me
Running your own website and trying to get it to rank well in search results can be a frustrating experience. Even though you put a lot of time and effort into your site, and you think you're following all the rules, you still feel like you're walking around in a...
Learn to Speak Video: Transition Basics
Does anybody remember 1-inch analog video tape? Back when I was a lad (which I'll define here as "when I still had hair"), if you wanted to learn how to edit video, 1-inch video tape is what you worked with. A video editing console was as big as a Volkswagen, had...
Editing Tips for Online Video
As I've mentioned previously, the difference between a confusing visual mash-up and an online video that can help you sell often boils down to what happens after you shoot the video. Post-production -- what you do with your video editing software -- is where you...
Life After the Pandocalypse
When Google rolled out the initial "Panda" update to their search algorithm a little over a year ago, a lot of formerly profitable websites abruptly disappeared from the search engine. The update was touted as an attempt to sort out "quality" content from the vast...
Think Before You Re-Invent the Wheel
Back in the Internet's version of the Age of Steam -- around 2002 -- retail giant Walmart (which was still officially "Wal Mart" at the time) made a bold move to insource all of its Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) functions. EDI is a critical behind-the-scenes...