A Rough Guide to Business Blogging

Author’s note: This is not the stuff that I do, but it’s what I should do. 5 Reasons to have a blog for your business 1. It’s environmentally friendly. Unless you are running a blog about your helicopter hunting/timber logging business venture. But not only is it green for the environment, it’s green for you. [...]

Getting Your Company Listed with Bing.com

Bing.com is a new search engine that is being touted as the next big thing, at least that’s what Microsoft is hoping. They’ve pumped metric tons of money into marketing it as Google’s new competitor, but the jury still seems to be deliberating about that. Still, as Bing buzz builds, it couldn’t hurt to get [...]

How Does Your Business Look Online?

Here’s a good exercise to help you get motivated to update your site: Google your business name. I am in the process of updating a map for a site I developed and it involves googling almost every local retail business in order to link to their websites. Surprisingly, quite a few don’t. Instead, when I [...]

Google’s mysteries revealed

This is an article I found today on Lorelle’s amazing WordPress blog. It’s the perfect answer to that ever-popular question, “How do I get my site to rank high in Google?” I wish there was a “silver bullet answer” to this question too, but it’s a not so much a magic formula as it is [...]

Web Advertising: A Glossary

Advertiser: Someone who wants to place their ads on a site. API: A little bit of code that acts as a go-between for your site and another web site that is providing some sort of service on the page i.e. Google’s Adsense. Browser Cache: Your browser program, Internet Explorer for example, will keep a record [...]