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25% off all Website Design (Including WordPress!)

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We pride ourselves on designing eye-catching sites! I wanted to let everyone know that we are offering 25% off all website design services for the month of April! Request A Quote! Do you need a brand new website? Would you like to give your current site a face-lift? Or are you looking to transition your existing site to a WordPress platform? We would love to help! Take a look at a few of our most recent Website designs: http://taylorconsulting.us http://mycoportal.com http://specair.net Although we love (and recommend) WordPress sites, we are also able to work with traditional html or php based…

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What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and How Important is it For Your Website?

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Wikipedia describes it as “the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the ‘natural’ or un-paid search results.” Search engine optimization is continually evolving. No longer can you upload a website to the internet and leave it. Constant revising, updating and evaluating is required to keep your website on the first few pages of a search. Google is the #1 used search engine in the world; in fact, Google provides the information for smaller search engines like Ask.com. So how do you get your website found by Google? First, you need…

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WordPress, How I Love Thee

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Honestly, my life has changed as a web developer now that WordPress has come to town. Having been coding websites since Netscape (which is pre-Internet Explorer – so a long, long time ago in web-years) I have had my share of having to create every type of functionality from scratch: Web forms, drop down navigation, blog style postings, password protected content – all had to be laboriously designed, coded and tested. Ah, but everything has changed now.  WordPress plugins that can greatly enhance your website’s functionality can easily be downloaded and installed in just minutes – providing your customers with…

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Joomla and WordPress: Which CMS Do I Choose?

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It’s safe to say that open-source content management systems (CMS) are the most popular platforms for creating non enterprise websites today, given their low cost and very healthy developer communities.
Even a few years ago choosing the correct CMS depended on the project’s requirement, but this is no longer true. There are now plug-ins that fill basically any requirement for the major open-source CMS’ and have filled the gaping holes in functionality that previously turned web developers away from certain CMS’.

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The Semantic Web: A Smarter Web: Example Web Search

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I want to talk about a topic that I find very exciting.  The roots of this technology are in the area of Artificial Intelligence.  This is not just for the tech savvy out there.  This will have an impact on how everyone uses the web, over time.  The idea is to make the web smarter, or should I say, to make the software and computers that run the web or run on the web smarter. We all use the web and computers to connect with others, to find information, to share information and so on.  If we just focus on…

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How Google is Blending SEO with Social Media Marketing

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In mid-February the search monster Google announced through a company blog post, An Update to Google Social Search, that the search engine was making a leap forward by further integrating social media into their organic search results. Google’s new philosophy is that people want to see search results that are relevant to their search query and results that are meaningful to the people who matter to the searcher. What Are The Changes? Google has always displayed results that are relevant to the search query but how does Google show results that are meaningful to the searcher? Google accomplishes this by…

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Choosing Keywords for Your Site

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Most site owners know now that keywords are important but many aren’t entirely sure how they work or how to choose their keywords. In this article I’ll go over these two important concepts. First lets define what a keyword is. From a marketing point of view, a keyword is a word or phrase that a search engine user would enter into the search engine when searching for a product or service. For example, if I were looking for someone to wash my dog in Salt Lake City, I might type in “Dog Groomer Salt Lake City” That whole phrase is…

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Who Owns Your Website Software?

Common sense suggests that if you hire a Web developer to build your site, whatever they create belongs to you. But that isn’t always the case. According to U.S. copyright law, if you hire a Web design firm as an independent contractor, that design firm owns all of the content that it creates. In a case such as this, the law treats the contractor as an “author” and automatically grants them ownership of the work. Even if your business works together with a design firm on your Web site, the design firm might be able to claim joint ownership of…

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IMAP Business Email Hosting vs. POP3 Email Hosting

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IMAP Business Email Hosting vs. POP3 Email Hosting IMAP is a client email protocol with a sophisticated but easy to use capacity to share, organize, and enable flexible access to multiple users. To an increasing number of organizations IMAP is the next step in email, a viable, cost-effective business email hosting solution. There are several benefits of an IMAP Email Hosting Account: With this protocol, all your mail stays on the server in multiple folders, some of which you have created and customized. If you want all email related to Bob Jones to be stored in one folder, simply create…

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The Top 10 WordPress Plugins for SEO, Functionality & Design for Your Website and Blog

Every client has a different approach to how they want their site to flow (functionality), how they want it to look (the style) and everyone wants to be on the search engines’ first page (SEO).  Back in the day, coding and html were about the only way you could successfully create a site that looked customized.  Today, with sites like WordPress, Joomla, Blogger and countless other platforms, the average user can feel empowered to create a foundation for what they want and then bring on a Virtual Assistant to “fine tune” the overall project. As virtual assistant’s with clients who…

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