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Technology

WordPress.com Knocked Offline

WordPress is the world premier blogging system for millions of people.  Although millions of people use the paid version of WordPress, which entails hosting your own WordPress blog, there are certainly more people using the free WordPress blogging platform at WordPress.com.  And yesterday morning, these people experienced a rare, yet temporary outage.

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News Search Engine Optimization Technology

WordPress SEO Tips Part X: Content Is King

Not to long ago, I heard of a real estate agent that lived in a moderately sized city, around 150,000 people.  She was brand new to the business, receiving her real estate license only a few months ago.  However, she was determined to figure out a way to become the best known, and most preferred, […]

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Technology

Blogger Adds Pages

Since it’s inception, Blogger has been missing one critical feature – the ability to create pages.  This one feature, in my opinion, set the stage for WordPress to gain huge momentum early on as a “preferred” blogging platform for millions of bloggers.  But as of yesterday, that all changes.  Google announced that Blogger now has […]

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iPad Technology

Official Apple iPad Promo Video

As you probably know by now, Apple announced their highly anticipated iPad.  And even though we are still about 3 months from the release date, Apple is starting their aggressive marketing campaign with an official iPad website.  The iPad website provides in depth information about the device, applications, and capabilities.  It also shows the starting […]

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Facebook Search Engine Optimization Technology

Customize Your Facebook Fan Page With FBML

One of the things that makes Facebook Fan Pages so effective is they are highly customizable. This customization factor allows a brand to really come alive on the web, and on Facebook.  And with the amount of traffic and exposure that Facebook can deliver to a brand (business, products, services, individuals), having a professional looking […]

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Facebook Search Engine Optimization Technology

How I Dramatically Increased My Website Speed

The name of the SEO game in 2010 is going to be increasing the speed of your website. And what I mean by “speed” is this – the amount of time it takes for your website (and web pages) load. About a month ago, I showed a video of Matt Cutts (Google engineer) talking about […]

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Technology Twitter

How To Add Twitter To Your WordPress Blog (by the numbers…)

There are lots of different ways to add Twitter to your blog or your website.  Literally, an entire book of tutorials could be created to cover all the different websites and ways of integration.   I’m going to start with WordPress – so this tutorial is going to cover how to add your Twitter profile to […]