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I know SEO (Search Engine Optimization). And if you have been following along with the latest trends in SEO, you will know that one of the key factors in a high search engine placement, or SERP (Search Engine Results Position) is based on how many quality sites that have a back link to you. And [...]

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Email Marketing is going to be one of those marketing blessings or marketing curses. I remember when I began to contemplate starting a campaign to reach opt-in members to one of my websites, I searched the internet for the right Email marketing services to use. And let me tell you, finding a company on the [...]

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I’m always looking for a one-stop shop that will do just about everything I need in a web design company. I’ve covered the topic of one-stops before, but I’ve found a great site that truly does cover it all. From ecommerce solutions to crm software, and of course SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and web design. [...]

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If all you’ve thought of semantics are the way web markup is written, then you’ve missed the bigger picture of using properly structured, correct (W3C) markup – and how it applies to better search engine ranking. There are those who think that it shouldn’t matter whatsoever that a website riddled with depreciated, 90′s style tag [...]

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Again, I was reminded that there are allot of designers out there (you know who you are) that don’t give a rat’s butt about accessibility or standards. I know of one commenter that said they know designers who are not even aware that blind users can surf the internet (with the help of screen readers). [...]

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There are actually a few great plain old WordPress themes to build on. What you want to look for in a plain old theme is semantically correct, W3C valid XTHML markup that goes into each template based PHP file, and the accompanying external CSS file of course. I’ll let you all Google for great themes, [...]

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Are there any real benefits to using semantic HTML? Specifically speaking, using W3C valid (X)HTML markup in your web designs to make sure that your site is standards compliant. Not only for simple compliance sake, but for accessibility as well. Many times, designers will stop at their (X)HTML checks, and skip the WAI conformity checks. [...]

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[Opera] Urges Microsoft to give consumers a genuine choice of standards—compliant Web browsers… I stand behind Opera and their decision. And by the way, the Opera browser is 20 times better than IE! read more | digg story

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Latent Semantic Indexing. Cool sounding term. Now, before I get into what it actually is…can you imagine how smart you’ll sound when you use that term with your friends, as they discuss web technologies? But I digress… Here’s the definition of LSI use from SEOBook.com (taken from http://www.seobook.com/lsi/lsa_definition.htm): Latent semantic indexing adds an important step [...]

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Funny title, I must admit. But if you are a regular contributor to this site in the form of commenting, then I have a great deal for you. I have installed the NoFollow-Free plugin, which allows the removal of the nofollow attribute that WordPress automatically generates for comments and author links. Remove the nofollow tag [...]

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