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Welcome to my video tutorial button announcement! Recently I’ve added a tutorial button on all the templates for my website and blog. Located all the way to the top right of every webpage, the tutorial button allows my online visitors to go straight to my video tutorial page to view any of my video tutorials in a single place.

Notice the photo at the left shows the before and after with and without the new “Tutorials” button. With a simple addition of one line in all my website templates it was possible to add the new button for easy access to my tutorials, all on a single page!

If you have an existing website for your small business, I wouldn’t suggest making changes to your own code unless you’re absolutely sure you know what you’re doing. Making template adjustments is something that should be left to your web designer, who would know to backup your original before altering anything. One character change can throw your entire website’s appearance off kilter, so avoid making changes without expert help.

Don’t have a small business website? Your own website could attract traffic to your business and actually bring in customers. Contact me today by phone or email for details on how you can get started right away! Keep posted on my blog and website for more news, tips and advice concerning various topics online from custom website design to the latest trends happening in the internet world.

Having a website isn’t beneficial if it lays stagnant. Search engines detect freshly added content and reward websites that do so on a regular basis.

Adding quality blog posts to your website offers more for search engines to index. Showing up on Google page one could potentially give you more customers, so writing a lot of posts can be advantageous to online promotion.

When writing on your blog, focus on positive aspects of your business and what makes you stand out over your competition.

Most small business owners don’t always have time to write on their blog or website due to the busy schedule of running a company, so I offer blog writing services to promote SEO for many websites online. I speak a language that your target market wants to hear and give your readers a reason to return on a regular basis.

This graph below demonstrates a steady increase in traffic for one of the websites I write for. The website visitor statistics steadily increased partially due to my blog writing service starting in July 2010 to now. Notice the impressive peak of over 1600 page loads in one single day just recently.

If you are interested in adding professional blog posts to your small business blog or website, contact me today for more details! If you don’t have a blog or website, I can make that a reality for you as well! Keep posted on my blog for more news, tips and advice concerning website design, blogging, and the internet in general.

Adding custom social media buttons on your website or blog gives your online visitors the option to “Share” on Facebook, “Tweet” on Twitter, or add your site to multiple other social media websites on the net.

Allowing your website visitors to be able to share and tweet about your blog or website allows you to have more exposure in your business online. More exposure on social media websites could bring you more traffic and in turn, more potential clients.

I recently added these buttons to every page of my website and blog, and can offer the same service to you, if you have a website or blog set up already. Adding these social media buttons to EVERY page of your blog or website could be a very timely process for you, so you may want someone like me to handle that for you.

Don’t have a blog or website? Contact me today for details on just what it takes to get started! Keep posted on my blog and website for news, tips and advice concerning custom website design.

For directions on adding Google +1, Facebook share, Twitter tweet, and other social media buttons on every page of your blog or website, have a look at this Google Plus One Button Tutorial.

When you install WordPress for your blog, they automatically put what is known as a “trackback file” in the main section of your blog folder. The actual file shows up in your blog folder as “wp-trackback.php”, and has no use except to send you an email pertaining to changes in your WordPress. This file is used to reference comments made on your blog and post changes you may have made in the backend admin, then send you an email with a notification.

When you upgrade your WordPress to the latest versions, WordPress automatically installs the trackback file again. Therefore in order to prevent the trackback messages from clogging up your email, you may want to delete the file each time you have a new update. The file has no purpose that affects the functionality of your blog, so deleting it won’t have any adverse effects.

Keep posted on my blog and website for news, tips and advice concerning internet related topics. Contact me today for ideas related to starting up your own small business website, and inquire about my blog writing services to keep your blog full of fresh new content on a regular basis.

I recently discovered a pleasant trend occurring in the statcounter statistics for the traffic on one of the websites I monitor and write for. From the graph on the left, (click to enlarge by the way) we notice the trend remained flat until shortly after I started writing for the website in June.

Before June the number of unique visitors peaked at around 50 per day where now the minimum per day is around 200, even peaking at 1,184 hits on March 21st. The key to acquiring more customers is building website traffic, and in this case I provide proof that blogging on a regular basis does just that.

Add content to your website regularly to provide search engines with more incentive to direct websurfers to your site. Search engines prefer a website that grows, so by adding more pages with blog posts, you offer a healthier online presence. Blogging also offers you the opportunity to advertise your business for free. All you need is some time to write and some ideas to write about.

Do you want to get more traffic to your website online? Inquire about my blogging services for your small business website. Most small business owners who have a blog do not have the time to write on it. Writing about news, tips and advice in your business niche CAN bring you more potential customers. Don’t have a blog yet? I can offer help with that as well. Contact me today for more details.

Review these blog writing tips and advice to get more traffic to your website. Writing can be a great way to attract search engines and therefore more visitors to your website or blog. Website visitors can convert to customers, clients and even get others to bookmark you.

Write about subjects that your are an expert on or that interest you. Your posts should reflect your passion about the subject from a level of expertise. Have a smooth flow from one point to the next, on current topics, in terms that are easy to understand for your readers.

Write in short paragraphs making it easier for your audience to understand and appreciate. Make a list of blog post topics and expand on each one of them a little at a time, then go back to add more when you feel inspired. Tell your readers about a problem you had and how you fixed it with a personal experience. Give your audience specific details and paint them a picture for a clear understanding of the points you’re trying to convey.

Give your post a catchy title loaded with keywords for your business niche. Make the blog title something that catches the reader’s attention and makes them want to read on. Offering something for free is a great way to get people to your website. Offering tips, advice and tutorials is a simple way to give something to your audience for free.

Writing often on your website or blog increases your chances of being indexed by search engines. More visitors means more potential customers, clients, and in turn could increase your business’ income. You’d be pleased to see a rise in sales just for a little effort writing, and there’s no better time than the present.

Bookmark my blog and website for more tips and advice on website design and other internet related topics, and have a look at some more tips on writing articles or posts for your blog. Don’t have a website or a blog? Contact me by phone or email to discuss your expectations.

Spending time removing email and blog comment spam is a nuisance, so take these tips and advice to save it instead.

When filtering spam comments on your blog, a few considerations need to be focused on. Identify whether you are looking at an actual comment made by a human or one from a program designed to add comments and for the purposes of gaining backlinks. These bots can be eliminated and a large portion of this spam could be filtered by requiring visitors to enter a captcha in order to comment. That way you know every comment posted was entered by a human.

Another great way to filter a large portion of blog comment spam is to use plugins and add-ons that are designed to detect and delete them. They can lessen the load of the number of comments that need to be tossed in the trash and keep your blog spam free.

The tips provided by you are very good and useful. Thanks!

I really enjoyed flicking through this. Think I’m going to look through your other posts!

Besides some of the add-ons and plugins that are offered with most blogs, you may still have to filter some spam that gets through those defenses. When you notice a comment has nothing to do with the post you wrote, chances are you can delete it for being spam. Sometimes you can recoginze blog spam comments by the website it links back to.

Have a look at this WordPress CAPTCHA Plugin Video Tutorial and other tips and advice on Filtering WordPress Blog Spam.

Proper website design strategies are important to give value to what you have online. Using the appropriate strategies to promote your business website could not only increase your clientele, but also assure that you aren’t penalized for deceitful means of gaining popularity online.

The purpose of a good business website is to get attention from search engines, and in turn receive the traffic you need to turn your visitors into potential customers. Use natural methods of SEO such as having orignial content, adding pages to your website frequently, blogging often to increase SEO, and using valid code to be indexed by search engines. Because there is so much importance in the engine that drives your website, having the best there is to offer would put your business website on the cutting edge of taking on the competition. That’s exactly what CodeRepair offers.

Turn your visitors into customers by offering them a call to action, and give them reasons why your company stands out above the rest. Bookmark my blog and website for tips and advice for your small business to get the boost it needs to be competitive in today’s market, and contact me today by phone or email for more details on how to obtain a website that generates the income you as a business owner desire. For more about ideas to get started promoting online, review my post on small business website home page advice.

Refer to these brainstorming tips and advice when you have a task at hand that requires problem solving techniques. When doing web design projects, I find myself using these techniques whether coming up with website page ideas or blog posts.

No matter what project you’re working on, whether for business or scholastic purposes, brainstorming can be an effective strategy. When you have to come up with something from nothing, it’s helpful to have some resources to refer to. Brainstorming is one way to create your own resources with your own imagination.

Make a file on notepad and title it “thinktank” where you can save your concepts. Begin to brainstorm and jot down any ideas you may come up with, no matter how trivial they may seem. Even the most insignificant thoughts could be the inspiration for the creative process. Visit your thinktank regularly to add or expand on your thoughts and ideas.

The more concepts you come up with and write down, the better chances one of them could turn into a great idea. The effort is about quantity, not quality when brainstorming, so write or type as much as possible during your session. Do this for at least 20 minutes or until you just can’t come up with anything else. Think of it like popping popcorn in a microwave. Once the “pops” occur only every 4 seconds, it’s time to take the bag out of the oven.

Bookmark my blog for tips and advice on topics that could be helpful for you whether you’re in web design or not. Questions? Contact us by phone and ask for Roger or email us with any questions about custom small business web graphic design.

You can make your own GIF files for blog posts and even in web design projects. This is a widely used graphics format for the Internet that allows transparency and animation. By simply adding animation to a blog post or website, you might just spice it up enough to entice your visitors into staying longer.

GIF files, also known as Graphics Interchange Format is a widely used graphics format that allows animation and transparency. GIFs can be created either using software or a website. The limitation of this format is that it the maximum number of colors is 256, but can often give the illusion of more colors. Some GIF creation websites include gickr.com, picasion.com, makeagif.com and loogix.com.

You can usually upload about a dozen pics to use in your GIF animation and have a variety of options to choose from such as speed, size, looping and the number of pics allowed. The size generally spans from 100 to 400 pix and the speed generally goes from slow to fast, with some other customization available. Once you finished creating your GIF, if it’s under 150 kb, you could even use it as an emoticon on your instant messenger.

GIFs are ideal to spice up a blog post or integrate into your web design. You can upload GIFs to enhance your webpage visitor’s experience instead of photos. Use these tips to dazzle your website design or blog with an animated GIF today.