Coding & Development
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Do You Really Need a New Website?
If you’re about to embark on a new website build because someone has decided your current site “looks dated” or because “it’s three years old and three years is an eternity in web time,” you might consider hitting the pause button. Even if your website is dated – or it’s lacking in some other way…MORE >
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Is a Commercial Theme and DIY Website Right for You?
My most recent piece for Small Business Trends is live on that site. It’s a must-read for small businesses who aren’t sure whether a commercial theme makes sense for them. They can be, and the two-figure price tag sounds a lot better than the five-figure tag that can accompany custom work, but there are pitfalls to…MORE >
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SEO Beyond What’s On the Page
There’s more to SEO than just keyword-focused content on each website page. My latest column on Biznology.com discusses why social media, mobile-awareness and a secure site all matter for SEO success. Read the full piece here.
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Why Your Website Matters – and How to Make it Matter More
Earlier this week, I presented a webinar with the great team for Biznology.com (where I’m a regular contributor) on making your website more productive as a marketing tool in this age of social media, mobile technology, and other, sexy digital marketing tools. The webinar was well attended and well received. If you missed it, you’re…MORE >
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Why Your Website Matters, and How to Make it Matter More
Join me and the folks at Biznology for a free 30-minute webinar where we’ll explore why, in the age of social media, mobile advertising, and other hot technologies, your website is still an important part of your marketing. Why Your Website Matters and How to Make It Matter More: A Content Marketer’s Guide to Building…MORE >
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Search and Filtering on Your Website
Great content is great only if your audience can find it. And if they make it to your site via organic search, PPC advertising, social media or other means, it’s heartbreaking to think they still might not find the most relevant content. That’s why search and filtering features on your website are so important. My…MORE >
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Mobile-Friendly Websites More Important Than Ever
There’s a storm brewing, and it goes by the name “Mobilegeddon.” Slated to make landfall on April 21st (ok, I’ll stop with the weather stuff), this update from Google has a lot of people breathlessly spilling a lot of ink about its implications for search and digital marketing. And for good reason. The two key…MORE >
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Matching Web Development to Marketing Needs
Small Business Trends has just published my article on matching your website development planning to you marketing needs and talk about how content marketing and other marketing goals should drive the size of your site, what features it includes, and waht tools are best suited to building it. I take a fresh look at the…MORE >