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Duplicate content can kill your site

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Do you copy and paste other people’s content into your site? Besides getting into potential legal troubles, especially if you profit from it (i.e. use it for business), you’re also punishing your own site rankings. This is well-known among search engine optimization (SEO) experts, but [this article] frames it particularly well:

What makes a good design?

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Smart navigation. Navigation should be intuitive, laid out according to established web standards that users have grown to expect, and include everything the user needs to keep them on one site.
Search engine optimization. This is a whole other category of interest, and there are lots of myths out there that have to be debunked first. […]

Basic Marketing

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Use your voice mail to drive web site traffic. “I’m not in the office right now, but feel free to leave a message or visit my web site at www.___.com
Put your web site in the signature or tag-line of all your e-mail messages. Why miss the chance to market yourself?
Put your web site on your […]