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Almost every time I build a new site for a business, I get the question, “Would having a blog help my website’s SEO?” The quick answer is, “Yes.” The long answer is “Yes, if it matters.”
Here’s a sit-down-and-get-to-work post that holds nothing back, doesn’t make it sound easy, but gives you the guidelines, the tools, and the step-by-step processes to start getting some real traffic to your site
Here’s a quick, less than two minutes, how to video that will walk you through adding content to the BNI site.
If you can’t figure out what to write on your site, try looking at your inbox. What did your clients ask you over the past week?
How to use backlinks to help traffic to your site. That, and an octopus and a dripping wet bathing suit. Intrigued? Read on.
Yelp works. Local service professionals know it (plumbers, oil changers, etc.). But WordPress website designers should be up there, too.
If you’re skipping this and waiting for the parts that will earn you money, these are the parts that will earn you money. It just takes work.
LinkedIn is the de facto online social network for business types. The thing is, lots of people are “on there” but aren’t necessarily using it to the fullest.
When it comes to getting a significant amount of business by way of referral some companies are better at it. It’s not that they have implemented a better process for asking clients and partners to refer them, it’s that they are simply more referable.
I was inspired by a meeting I had with Bob Gates and Nadja Specht this morning in which we talked in quite some detail about social networking–and how you can make it work for your business.
Likoma shows some case studies from simple to complex websites.
If you send an email to the mailing list, you should get a copy yourself UNLESS you use an email service such as Gmail. Gmail, for whatever reason, doesn’t send you back emails that you send out.
Your donation is a great way to target 600 Rooftop families, alumni and friends of the school who attend our auction each year. Your gift sends the message that you business is a caring part of a community that supports a whole generation of young learners and budding artists; students who will be the leaders of tomorrow’s San Francisco.
Mailman (usually provided for free with a cPanel backend control panel on Unix hosting) does a good job with mailing lists. This is one-to-all email, not necessarily a newsletter that everyone in the group can use. Pretty simple software, but it works well. Here’s a quick video showing how to add a new member to a list or remover an existing member from a list.
Overview of the dashboard stats and then deeper statistics provided by the wordpress.com stats plugin. Quickly go over the different areas of the stats (Referrers, Top Posts & Pages, Search Engine Terms, Clicks, and Incoming Links) and then a bit of analysis of the keywords. Finally, a very brief example of how to put those [...]
Likoma (website design) presentation to BNI on 09/23/09. Some example clients’ sites, quick case studies, overview of WordPress backend (WYSIWYG, images, text, statistics, etc.).
I’m done, it’s settled, I’m backed up online, all the time, no worries, no hassles, no baby pictures lost to the cyber vacuum.
Business Filings Division, Business Filings Division scam, Compliance Annual Minutes Board, statement of information, officers list
Update your company information in just a few minutes by logging in and going to Profile in the left sidebar. It’s painless!
Mischa Purcell’s Professional Photographers of the Greater Bay Area (ppgba.org) needed a revamp because only a technical few could update the legacy backend software on the site.
Fritz shows another method to updating your website.
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For the longer-term strategy of future edits, additions, and general content control, we switched their site from a straight HTML site to a content management system using WordPress.
Richard Swan, a BNI member from the UK Tower Hill chapter, is a prolific songwriter and arranger who has played at prestigious events such as the Democrats Abroad Inaugural Ball for Barack Obama, and has produced, arranged and played on songs for many other musical artists.
The San Francisco Adult Municipal Softball League had a website, regular updates, images, banners, and text. Sounds good, right? The trouble was that the updates were too difficult and time consuming to do.
