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Poll – When was the last time that your website was fully backed up?

John — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:32:58 +0000

Google Webmaster – How Search Works

John — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:37:01 +0000

Here is a video from Google that you might not have seen.

“How Search Works” is one of three videos in Google’s “How Google Works” series.

WordPress Business Strategies – not just for blogging anymore

John — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:07:29 +0000

Who is using WordPress…and proud of it!

Looking at this tag cloud is a good indicator of how deeply WordPress, BuddyPress and WPML have been embedded into the universe of online business these past few years.

WordPress business strategies are turning up across a wide variety of sectors – this tag cloud image from WordPress.org speaks loudly.

Google Trends — WordPress vs. SEO searches

John — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:37:49 +0000

I was clicking around Google Trends and surprised to see that the keyword “WordPress” is searched more than twice as often as the keyword “SEO”.

In fact, it has been over 5 years since the keywords “WordPress” and “SEO” were searched equally.

What does this do you your business strategy?

testing FB Live Stream

John — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:08:36 +0000

Are Your Visitors Being Blindsided? New Google Tool Helps

John — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:16:08 +0000

What your visitors see on their monitors is critical to how they respond. If your site/page design hides or keeps important content outside the eye view of a visitor then you probably have wasted that visitor.

Google Labs has a free tool where you enter any url and presto Google displays the site with an overlay showing what visitors will see by monitor display setting as well as percentage of visitors.

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http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/

Good article on Google Browser Size Tool

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Hospital Marketing – Social Media Usage Chart

John — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:26:08 +0000

Hospital marketing-promotion on social networks seems to be growing according to data released on March 28, 2010 by ebennett.org.

Twitter and Facebook surging ahead of hospital blogs

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Google Update on Google’s (Almost here) Update

John — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:07:16 +0000

“How to optimize your site for Google in 2010” Google’s latest adjustment to its amalgarhythm received good coverage in today’s iMedia Connection.

According to writer Jason Prescott: reports of user testing indicate that this update (referred to as ‘Caffeine’) will focus on the following areas:

higher keyword density
faster site speed
fresher results
real-time search content
social media link bait
video listings
keywords in the domain name

So, why wait? You can start optimizing for Google today.

Read the balance of Jason’s article here: “How to optimize your site for Google in 2010”

Below are four areas you can work on for more visibility in Google.

One of my favorite commercials

John — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:49:51 +0000

I came across this commercial that I directed in the early 90s and remembered how much I liked its simplicity. I hope that you agree.

Web Readers and web page printers read this (Readibility plugin)

John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:50:56 +0000

I came across this plugin that is great for people like myself that:

a) are easily distracted

b) are “small type” challenged

c) like to print out and read

d) hate to waste paper and ink printing out badly formatted web pages

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

note: it works on both IE and Firefox

From the website:

“Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.”

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment.

http://wp.me/pxXnW-4w