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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Keyword Tracking For SEO

Keyword tracking for SEO helps regulate which keywords should be used to gain traffic for your website. By thinking about what potential clients would search to find your products and services, small business website owners can direct more traffic to their website. Keyword tracking tools can aid in the research necessary to drive more traffic to a website.

Some Keyword Tracking Tools for SEO Include:

Wordtracker
Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
NicheBot
Overture Keyword Popularity Tool
Free Google Suggest Tool
Good Keywords

Some Related Articles on SEO:

The 7 Best Website Optimization Techniques
Natural Methods for SEO

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Custom CMS Website Conversion of CodeRepair

The conversion of CodeRepair has been completed from static pages to a custom CMS content management system design. Since I offer custom CMS webdesign to my clients, it made sense to convert my website to the same system that I sell.

The new look is designed with a 1600 pixel width background with all content centered so it will look great on any monitor size. In addition, the redesign includes a revised template with css so the blog matches the look of the main site.

Success online depends on a website that grows. The benefit of having a custom CMS website design is you can add content to your website without paying your designer for each revision. This allows you to upgrade your site constantly by investing your time instead of your money.

High quality similar to the revised design is what you can expect from CodeRepair. Email us from any page with any questions about a new custom website or redesign for your small business.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

10 Ways to Come Up With Blog Post Ideas

I've compiled this list of "10 ways to come up with blog post ideas" in order to make it easier for writers to get the creative juices flowing.
Hope these blog tips help!

1. Solve a Problem
Answer a question for your readers, and try to solve a problem you may have come across yourself. A great way to attract readers is to be helpful in your posts.

2. Pick a Topic and Research it Online
By thinking of a topic to write about and doing a little research, you can get the rolling start for writing in your own blog. Researching keywords can help as well.

3. Brainstorm and Write Some Headlines
Pick some headlines you feel like writing about today, and keep a list. Pick out the ones that you feel you have some great ideas about, and carry a notepad with you.

4. Ask Readers
Find out what your readers want you to write about next, or pay attention to the types of questions that come up in social media, Twitter for example.

5. Create a Post With Older Post Links
Refer to other posts you've written in the past as reference for your readers.

6. Research
Read books, newspapers, watch the news, and write about current news in your niche.

7. Write When Inspiration Hits You
The best time to write is when you're inspired to. Don't lose a thought because it was forgotten, so carry a notepad or voice recorder with you for when good ideas hit you.

8. Take Breaks
When the stream of ideas starts to fade, take a break and refresh yourself. We all need food, drink and rest to function properly, so don't forget the bare necessities.

9. Read Other Blog Posts
Subscribing and reading what others are writing about is a great inspirational tool to get the creative juices flowing.

10. Write About What You've Learned
If you've learned something and find it useful, don't hesitate to share. Nothing brings your readers back faster than when you've taught them something they can really use.

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Friday, June 12, 2009

The Benefits and Importance of Code Validation

Realizing the importance of code validation for website pages is very important for web designers. By realizing the reasons behind having perfect code, small business website owners can take advantage of the rewards of having perfect code in the HTML and CSS of their web pages.

Validation checks your documents for code errors from standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C. Browsers auto-correct website code, but each one does it in a different way, so web designers need to keep this in mind to avoid broken layouts in certain browsers. Pages render faster for websites with valid code, therefore the website pages tend to load faster, and websites with valid code are more accessible to all types of browsers, screen readers and platforms. Google tends index pages with valid HTML and CSS, so valid code is a good way to be higher in search engine rankings. Finally, having valid code today helps insure that your website will work with technologies that haven't even been invented yet.

Realizing the importance of code validation in webdesign can help small business website owners' websites load faster, be more accessible, get indexed more often, and work on devices invented in the future. Web design with proper code validation may help your website reap the rewards that could bring the traffic you need to succeed.

For more on this subject see "The Benefits of Perfect XHTML Code"

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Visitors Into Customers-A Call To Action

The idea of driving traffic to a website is not only to get them there. What do you want them to do once they are there? The plan should be to give your potential customer a "Call to Action" and answer the question: "What can this company do for me?"

You website has to be there to help solve a problem for your potential customer. They have to think that your product or service can undoubtedly make their life easier. Lay out the benefits of your company, and the disadvantages of being without your product or service. Make plans in your writing and marketing strategies to draw your traffic in and make them interested in what you are all about.

Stickiness and natural methods of SEO should be used to drive traffic to your website, and turn them into return customers. By giving your website visitors benefits of your product or service, the chance of having more return customers could be greater.

Related Articles:
Key Fundamentals of Website Content
Small Business Website Home Page Advice
Obtaining a Winning Website
The Importance of Market Branding
The Best 7 Website Optimization Techniques

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Website Design Choices for Small Business

Website design choices for small business are very important to begin an online relationship with potential customers and clients. Using a large company for your website design project may not always be the way to go. I can't count how many times I've seen these corporates use bad SEO strategies to design websites for their customers. Sometimes they put the administrative contact in their own name instead of the website owner's and have multiple errors on webpages such as missing keywords, descriptions and titles. I've even noticed these company sites with errors and warnings on their own main page, something a common visitor wouldn't notice.

People get charged exorbitant amounts for monthly hosting, like $40 to $100, when it should that much should be for a YEAR of hosting. They see a website online and think it's the best thing since sliced bread, not realizing that it may not bring any traffic at all, and in Google's eyes is like a blank sheet of paper. People think "I got a big name company doing my work and they are in the top ten, they must know what they're doing", when in acutality, it's the small webdesign companies like myself who are going to take the time and effort to make sure your projects are done correctly.

Your website design choice for small business is not one you want to make more than once. In conclusion, be careful who you pick and don't be afraid to ask questions to your website designer. If they don't want to make you the administrative contact or discuss SEO value for your website, you may want to find someone else.

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Friday, May 15, 2009

Advantages of CMS In Website Design

The advantages of CMS in website design revolves around the option for a small business website owner to add content as often as desired. Unfortuantely, I find about 9 of 10 small business website owners do not add content even when given this opportunity, due to the busy schedule of running a business.

By using a CMS system to give small business website owners access to add original content as often as needed, the website owner can add or edit existing content to keep their website up-to-date. Adding content means more pages are added to the site, whether it's in a blog or main site content, and more pages helps a website rise up in the rankings of search engines. This feature of CMS can then only become a positive feature for a website owner is if it is taken advantage of.

By giving the small business website owner the option to add content as often as possible, new pages are added to the site. New pages means more indexing by search engines and therefore a better chance of rising up in search rankings.

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