Blog Articles
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Is there a limit on the number of meta keywords?
Meta keywords used to be very important, but no longer. These days most search engines ignore them and most webmasters do too. However, some people still believe there is a benefit, so it may be worth putting them on your website’s pages. However you should not overdo the keyword metatag since ‘stuffing’ (the practice of…
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We love our new website
Just a quick ‘thank you’ to Danielle who said some lovely things about our new website. Thanks of course are due to Sarah and Nick our designers at Mount Deluxe who did such a terrific job of capturing the spirit of Brown Bear Media.
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Evaluating ecommerce platforms
So you want an online shop, but which technology to choose. Well there is no ‘right answer’ applicable to all, so you need to know what questions to ask of yourself and the potential platforms in order to discover the right one for your business. Here is a 12 point guide giving some key questions…
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A useful set of wordpress plugins
I have recently started installing a base set of plugins whenever I create a new WordPress powered website. These are the extra tools that lift WordPress from a humble blogging tool to a fully fledged content management system. Here are just a few of my favorites: Delete Pending Comments – a great time saver. Display…
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“Click Here” must die.
This is a plea to anyone who writes for the web and cares about their search engine positionto put a big sign above their computer saying “Never write Click Here” or something similar. Let me tell you just two reasons why “click here” is a bad phrase to use on your website. Firstly it is…
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Attracting Customers
Getting more customers is usually an easy way to make more money (although too many customers can kill a business almost as easily as having too few). The task of attracting customers can be approached in a scatter gun way, on a wing and a prayer, or it can be done methodically. Unsurprisingly, it is…
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More bad article titles
They just keep coming. These are real titles posted by real authors (I guess) in order to get me to put their attached articles on to one or other of my websites. Paths To Enjoy Fantastic Aging Health Grape Vines in The Best Climate – Califonia Creating An Animal Firm And Become A High Performance…
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Very bad article titles
I keep getting sent articles to publish on my blogs in return for giving links back to the authors. However most are dumped into the trash folder as soon as I read the title. There really isn’t any way to put over how bad these titles are except to list some of the absolute gems…
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WordPress as a content management system
My first reaction was ‘I’m not sure about this’. Having hand-coded websites for a decade, I was never that impressed with off the shelf content management systems. However after trying out the free WordPress platform for the last year, I am a convert to the benefits of WordPress as a CMS. There are plenty of…
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