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The 5 Best Webmaster Forums for Discussing Websites, SEO, Online Business

September 27, 2009 Websites

Here is a list of the 5 best webmaster forums that I continue to refer to when seeking information about websites, SEO, marketing, etc.; all of these forums are great communities! Be sure to bookmark them if you’re not doing so already! The Top Webmaster Forums: DigitalPoint Forums SitePoint Forums V7 Network Webmaster Forums Webmaster-Talk [...]

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Host Lunarpages Fails to Make the Grade – Again

September 20, 2008 Commentary

I’ve had several clients of mine over the years host their websites with a company called Lunarpages. For the most part, their experience has been a good one . . . cheap hosting, reasonable uptime . . . the basics. Unfortunately, I’ve been informed that Lunarpages has dropped the ball, bigtime! According to my client, [...]

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Start Your Month Off By Looking at Last Month: Traffic & Profits

June 1, 2007 Advertising

I’m always excited when a month comes to a close because it presents me with the opportunity to look back at what happened last month. This is especially important because I have the opportunity to see how I’m doing in attaining my goals for my sites. In particular, I’m most interested in traffic and financial [...]

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The Importance of Periodic Link Reviews; Dead Link Removal

April 24, 2007 Blogging

I just wanted to remind everyone to periodically review all the links they keep on their site. Whether you are a blogger with a blogroll full of links or if you’re just another webmaster who shares resources with others like I do with BiggerPockets® Real Estate Investing Community, you should always do a periodic review [...]

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What is a Favicon for Your Website? How to Create a Favicon.ico file?

April 21, 2007 Blogging Tutorials

One of the most frustrating thing back when I was a newbie at building websites was figuring out what that little icon was called next to a website’s URL. This little tidbit of information eluded me for the longest time, but I finally figured it out. Back in the day (wow I sound old!) there [...]

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The First Rule of Blogging

April 18, 2007 Blogging
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Never Accuse Your Customer Without Having All the Facts! AND Don’t Steal People’s Content!

April 17, 2007 Commentary

Last week, I wrote an article about good customer service and used the example of how EzineArticles.com failed to live up to their promise to contact me about a situation. I am happy to report that I have finally been contacted by the company. The interesting thing is that the company broke another cardinal rule, [...]

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Gain User Trust with a Privacy Policy on your Website

April 6, 2007 eCommerce

While continuing to research how to create an ecommerce website, I found a decent article (very basic) about getting started selling online. The first thing mentioned in the piece, a discussion about user privacy, will be the focus of this post. First, you will need to write a privacy policy that will protect your company [...]

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Are Alexa And DMOZ Down For The Count?

November 22, 2006 Marketing

What is going on with Alexa and DMOZ. Both have been having problems for weeks now. Alexa simply does not load most of the time. Are they in the midst of a major update? I’m shocked that they have not addressed the problem publicly! So much for PR. DMOZ has had problems with their submission [...]

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Net News Linkfest

November 17, 2006 Blogging

Brian at SEOMoz tells us that meta-tags are making a comeback. Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have all agreed on a new xml sitemap protocol for their search engines. Visit Sitemaps.org for more info. Jaimie at SEO Egghead gives us 6 Questions To Weed Out Charlatan SEOs. I might add “What are social networks and how [...]

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The Four Phases of Web Success

November 15, 2006 Blogging

Internet people use measures of success that are somewhat different then those of common-folk. We’re not concerned about having the biggest house or the fanciest car in the neighborhood. We think about things like bandwidth, unique users, page views, reach, AdSense revenues, and other mundane things like number of servers we’ve got. I’ve broken down [...]

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Wiki time

October 5, 2006 Websites

I’ve always wanted to set up a Wiki, but was never brave enough. Today is that day. After comparing wikis, I’ve decided to use MediaWiki software as my platform. I’ll keep everyone posted with how things go.

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