SEO Best Practices and Marketing

What Are External Website Links and Why Are They Important to an SEO Strategy?

When it comes to SEO and search engine marketing in general, there are a number of metrics website administrators and owners need to be aware of. We’ve covered a few SEO topics before, but questions always seem to arise when it comes to external links. What are External Links To put it in as simple a definition as possible, external links are a hyperlinks that point to any domain outside of the current domain on which the content exists. The link itself is known as the target and the site being linked to is called the source. Major search engines

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Getting Your Personal Website Designed With You in Mind

Starting a personal blog or website can be tasking, particularly during the early design phase. This is a time when you’re just getting started, trying to find your niche, and just starting to place the building blocks that will hopefully turn into a successful website someday soon. Relying on do it yourself (DIY) website builder that sometimes fall short can add to some of the stress. After all, you just want to sit down and start typing that blog entry or sharing your site with others. Good websites take time, but great websites take a lot of time and effort.

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Getting Your Small Business Website Professionally Designed

Small business website design is important but difficult, and let’s face it, starting your own small business can be stressful enough (though, of course, but it can also be rewarding). One of the biggest stresses that seem to pop up, particularly in E-Commerce websites during the early design phase, is actually how to go about getting a website built in the first place, since most successful businesses today have their own websites. It’s true, there are various do it yourself (DIY) website builders that you can utilize yourself, but many fall short of providing the intuitive services that your small

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Frequently Asked Questions

People who are just getting started online tend to have more questions, but even those of us who are experienced might find ourselves pondering about why things are done the way they are, and how we might do things differently with each individual website. Listed below are some of the most common questions asked regarding SEO and marketing via search engines. We try to keep these answers short and simple. If you have a question, please send it here and it’ll be added below. What is SEO? SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. In a nutshell, it’s a

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The Best Sitemap Plugins for WordPress-Based Websites

XML Sitemap Plugins That Will Help You Get and Stay Seen in Google and Bing Not all WordPress plugins are created equal and if you’re ready to get started with a WordPress hosted website, one of the first things you need to do (after registering your site in Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Websmaster Tools, of course) is to submit a sitemap that search engines can use to index your website. There are an assortment of WordPress plugins for everything nowadays, and the same holds true for sitemap plugins. How do you choose the right one? This can be a

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