Jenn Mears Web Design

C & E Search Engine Tactics: 2. Sowing Your Links

We’re all familiar with the SEO mantra “ranking is determined in part by the number of pages that link back to your site.” While that is a big slice of the magic pie of good search results rankings, it is a concept that leaves many people wondering how all those wonderful links are created. Plenty of companies are poised to pounce on your money with their promise of acquiring links by the bushel for you, but do you really need to spend any money at all? Continue Reading…

Maybe this will cheer you up…

Found this via Reddit this morning. Paul Graham writes about why founding a company in an economic downturn is a good idea.

Free Stock Photo site of the day

The Stockexpert site is one of that rarest of breeds, a free photo website that is actually free! Well, some of their best photos are only available via their credit system, but it is clearly explained and they tell you right on the 1st pop-up window how much each photo is at each resolution. Having spent the good part of a rainy Saturday afternoon slogging through about 6 stock photo websites, this site was tops for selection, pricing (majority of pay-for-use images $1) and ease of use.

Blogs, and the blogging bloggers that blog them

I’ve been acting like a squirrel on crack with Del.icio.us over the past 2 years. In the course of trying to grow a web design business from something done on the side, when I’ve got free time on the weekend, through the part time graphic design job with the difference made up with web clients, to taking the plunge into the full time freelance world, every time I researched a different aspect of the web, I would hit Google and bookmark every decent article I could get my hands on.

The following list is the first of (hopefully) many where I share the best of the best on various topics such as Search Engine Optimization, hosting, web technologies and this one, blogging.
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