Archive for April, 2009

VOTE for your favorite Doodle for Google!  http://www.google.com/doodle4google/

What a great way to get your school involved in a creative arts project. 

Have you ever had a client that just kept on keeping on, no matter what you’ve tried to do to make them leave you?  I sometimes think this is the curse for being too nice,  bending over backwards to help people, being good at what you do, and being upfront and honest with people.

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You hear this jargon all over the net. SEO, Search Engine Optimization, We can place you website number one in the search engines.  Let’s make this very clear…the only ones that can make your website  show up in the number one spot in the search engines are the Search Engines Companies themselves. To back this up – Google, the number one search engine, spells it out pretty clearly and in big bold letters  “No one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google”  . It goes on to say “Beware of SEO’s that claim to guarantee rankings”.  Duh! I guess all these companies that are trying to sell you SEO and are telling you they can get you number one ranking,  did not read the Google webmaster guidelines.

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Do you need a website?  Have you been told by your business associates and your friends, the only way you can increase your business is to build a website.  Great! 

Now you say to yourself, this should be fairly easy to do, right?  I just call around, get a few prices and find the cheapest price – because I will only have a few pages and it will never change.  All I’ll need to do is put in what I do, how to contact me and presto!  I have a website.  That was easy. If this is what you are thinking of as far as what a website is –  that is utter “Hog Wash”.

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