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Wix and SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
A real Wix and SEO evaluation There are quite a few sites out there giving Wix.com good reviews but take a closer look and you will see most are just affiliate sites trying to make money off you, and giving out bad information. Some are pretty obvious, others are quite sneaky! The sneaky ones will […]
Read more...Where to learn web design and programming on the web for free!
Over the years I have found some great free online places to learn new code. Some will actually walk you through the code making challenges, others videos, and then of course just the text tutorials. YouTube is a great resource. Outside of YouTube you can checkout these websites. newthinktank.com Top Choice – (Videos) This guys […]
Read more...WordPress Security through htaccess
There are quite a few plugins for enhancing your WordPress site from getting hacked via the login page. Over the years I have used limit login attempts plugin for blocking IP addresses that get your login credientials wrong in certain number of tries. This works well for bruteforce attacks. And the settings are very customizable […]
Read more...Will LinkedIn Groups be the next Yahoo Groups?
The Future of LinkedIn Groups? With the added LinkedIn groups, seems to be more and more shameless business promotions. Will LinkedIn groups eventually turn into Yahoo Groups? Yahoo groups used to be a nice spot to find like minded conversations on topics at hand. Grant it this was way before meetup.com and it had more […]
Read more...Branding isn’t Imitating Someone Else
Building a brand is about creating a specific look, a certain type of message, being original. Cookie cutters need not apply! Lately I have noticed that some so called web design companies who use WordPress as their framework or code of choice are duplicating their own business website for their clients. Using the same layout, […]
Read more...Customizing WordPress Admin Side bar
Quick code to paste into your functions file for customizing your sidebar order in the admin section of WordPress. Some clients won’t need the Posts at the top, maybe their blog is secondary to their website, usually better to put the Posts and Comments together. Just change the order of how you want to customize […]
Read more...OpenCart Remove Required Telephone on Checkout
articles, code, web design
Ive been doing quite a few OpenCart customization sites lately. And one thing I always have to do is take out the required telephone field on the checkout page. I haven’t done it in a while, and well when I searched Google for the template pages to go to and find the code, it took […]
Read more...Multiple Domain Keyword Stuffing – Don’t be a spammer!
The new spam is buying multiple domain names with nothing but keywords as the URL. Ive seen this in many industries and for the Dallas area, there are a few companies who take this to the extreme. You know who you are! If you find a company you are about to hire has 3 or […]
Read more...Value of SEO
What should you expect to pay for an SEO campaign? There are tons of factors on what price you should be paying for an online marketing campaign and Search Engine Optimization. #1 Factor your Market Are you targeting a local market or a global market? Local markets are easier to handle, less competition, and better […]
Read more...Exact Match Domain Names
articles, seo, web design
Keywords in the URL We have all seen the sites that show up on the first page of a search engine that has the exact same domain name as the phrase you just typed in. And usually since it has the exact phrase we are searching, we will click on the link. And for the […]
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