WordPress – Why You Need It

WordPress, a blogging platform, started in 2003 and quickly grew to the largest and most popular Open Source (free) community-driven blogging platform today. I used to hand-code websites, as did many website designers (and some for whatever reason still do) until I discover the power of WordPress many years ago. I’ve never looked back. I believe I’m now over 300 new websites to date using WordPress. Everything form small business to large scale, elaborate websites. Why do I like it and why should you use it? Let me count the ways… Full syndication capabilities with new posts. This is by far the BEST feature of WordPress. Why? It gives the ability to add new content then tell the entire world about it automatically with a ping just by clicking...

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Search Engine Optimization and Your Business 101

Before you panic, this series of articles is for someone who knows nothing about websites or how to get one found, but would like to have some knowledge about it for their own benefit. If you already have some knowledge of SEO, this is a great refresher. I’m not promising every detail here, I’m just trying to help you digest how and why SEO and search engines impact your business and what you can do about it. There are many, many aspects of proper SEO and different techniques for different websites. However the basic topics discussed here are by far the most useful and universally accepted practices any website owner should know. Know the Types of Search Results Well you probably know a search engine delivers your search results based on what keywords...

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