It’s important that web designers be able to credit themselves by adding a footer link to a website in the footer, but with the recent Google algorithm changes, having your link on every page of the site is actually a negative ranking factor. You’re much better off with an internal page with a blurb and a link within the content or with a single link on the homepage in the footer. For most…

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If you use LinkedIn and Facebook, there is currently not an option on LinkedIn that streamlines the process of combining your contacts. If you sign up for a Yahoo account, however, you can copy your Facebook contacts to LinkedIn connections without having to manually enter them one at a time. This is a great way to add all of your Facebook contacts to LinkedIn. There’s no direct import from…

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Okay, I know what you’re thinking. “Great, another social media network…” As small businesses continue to invest a healthy amount of time and money into social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter already, many are understandably hesitant to flock to Google+. Although Google+ is relatively new and still in its early stages, it certainly possesses large potential for sma…

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In today’s tutorial we are going to talk about setting up WordPress to automatically ping search engines to let them know that you have new content on your site.

There is a service available that you can go to, and you can actually copy and paste the URL of your post to that service, and it will ping for you. It’s called Pingler.com.

The awesome thing about Pingler is that they…

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When you initially launched your website, tracking growing traffic numbers was exciting and motivating – something to help measure progress and determine success. However, over time you may have noticed your traffic numbers decline despite continuous efforts on your end to publish unique and engaging content and optimize your website for search.

Instead of losing viewers and watching traffic…

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In this video we’re going to talk about how to change your WordPress permalink structure which is hugely important for SEO, absolutely essential, and it’s really easy to do through WordPress, so go ahead and go to your website.

Go to wp-admin, log into the back end of your site, and under here under settings, the settings tab you can hover, scroll over, and click on permalinks. Right…

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Much like software, SEO is complicated business. Despite being around longer than Google itself, an astounding number of startups and small businesses gloss over SEO elements that are largely considered academic. Over the last several years, I’ve evaluated over 100 websites for software companies and nearly all lacked the same critical components necessary for success. Here are 5 common…

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Ever wondered what goes into a logo? Our boys over at Tasty Placement just finished a genius study on the fonts and colors from the planet’s largest consumer brands. If you’re developing a logo, be sure to scope this fresh infographic before making any hard decisions.

Infographic authored by TastyPlacement, an Austin SEO and web design agency. To view the original post, click…

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In this tutorial we are going to talk about how to install a custom WordPress theme from start to finish, and we’re going to walk through the easiest way to work through the entire process.

My favorite place to get themes is Theme Forest. They’ve got a ton of themes. The code for their themes is validated, you can see buyer ratings from whoever else has purchased a theme, and you can…

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In this video we’re going to talk about how to set up a WordPress site through your cPanel login, which is the easiest and fastest way to get WordPress up and running. We’ve included a video here, or you can read through the text below.

cPanel logins are going to be sent to you in an email whenever you set up your hosting account. We usually use HostGator, but whoever you use is going…

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