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SEO Concerns When Migrating Your Website

by Barry Adams May 21, 2009

Often when you do a site-wide update of your design, your content and/or your site structure, it can affect your website’s rankings in search engines negatively. Facing a huge site update project myself, I recently spent some time doing research on how to prepare for a big site update and ensure your high rankings stay [...]

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Using Widgets on Your Website

by Barry Adams March 10, 2009

Web widgets – little pieces of code, often JavaScipt – can add a lot of fun features to your website. Widgets come in all sizes and shapes; sports widgets showing the latest scores and standings, weather widgets with accurate forecasts, widgets that connect to social networks like Facebook, the list goes on. You can find [...]

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Search Engine Advertising: a Step By Step Guide – Part 3

by Barry Adams February 11, 2009

Part 1 – Choosing your keywords Part 2 – Writing good ads Part 3 – Create landing pages that convert In part 1 of this guide to search engine advertising we discussed how to choose the right keywords to advertise on. In part 2 we showed how to make effective ads. Now in the final [...]

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Optimize Your Content For The Online Purchase Funnel

by Barry Adams December 2, 2008

In a previous entry I’ve spoken about the importance of a well thought-out clickflow that guides your website’s visitors from page to page. This clickflow is the basis of turning visitors into customers. An internet user goes through several phases of information requirements in the process of searching for and purchasing a product online. There are [...]

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Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

by Barry Adams November 25, 2008

Search engines are the motors that drive traffic to your website. Getting your site ranked highly in search engines is an important factor of success. The discipline that focuses on this is called Search Engine Optimization, or SEO for short. In an effort to help beginning webmasters get underway with SEO Google has published a [...]

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Make Your Legal Statements Human-Readable

by Barry Adams November 10, 2008

If you sell products online, or if you have valuable or proprietary content hidden behind a password, you may be tempted to slap long, heavy-handed legal statements on your website. I’m not a legal expert by any stretch of the imagination, so I’m not one to vent an opinion on the necessities of online legal [...]

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Best Practices for Using Images on your Website

by Barry Adams November 6, 2008

I often come across websites that feature abundant images. I don’t mean the images used in a website’s design, but the images that are a part of a website’s content. Sometimes it seems the whole content of a site is captured in images. This may work fine for sites that feature art or photography, but [...]

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