Ideas for your next stage of growth

Practical insights on website design, local SEO, Google Ads, content and digital marketing for small businesses. 135 posts since 2008.

April 19, 2009

Google Apps Has a Major Down-side

I've become more and more comfortable putting important personal and business information on Google Apps. It's very convenient to create a document and…

December 3, 2008

comScore Rankings Tell Us the Most Popular Web Sites

Ever wonder what is the most popular site on the Web? ComScore is a business that measures traffic on the Web and publishes it on a subscription basis.

November 16, 2008

Obama's First Weekly YouTube Address to the Nation

As predicted, President-elect Obama will use YouTube in addition to radio to deliver his weekly address to the nation. This will be the first time that a…

November 15, 2008

Help Determine Priorities for Obama's C.T.O.

President-elect Obama is looking to create a position for Chief Technology Officer. This is a good thing. Frank Greve at McClatchy reports that Obama…

November 14, 2008

Columbia's Trouble Building a Web site

One of the challenges of building a large Web site is getting the technical people to work with the graphic design and marketing people.

November 11, 2008

Obama Site to Provide Communications, Transparency

Barack Obama has created change.gov as part of his transition to the Oval Office. In addition, he has said he will appoint a Chief Technology Officer and…

November 9, 2008

FCKEditor Now In Use

Up until today I was using BUEditor for editing this blog. Functionality is fairly limited. It seems more geared toward someone who is comfortable with…

November 7, 2008

iSKORPiTX; a Turkish Hacker, has Struck Again

I had a phone call today that a site that I support was not available and their was a very strange home page. After doing a research, it appears to me…

November 1, 2008

How to Get Others to Link to Your Site

One of the things that increases your "Google Juice" is "Link Love." I'm helping a friend build a Web site about Trout fishing, called www.TroutU.com.