The following is an article written by my colleague, Austin Fogt. He's worked with organizations in a number of ways, ranging from helping them set up social media for the first time, to running ad campaigns and growth campaigns on social media. You can find him on twitter @AFeezyFogt....
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SEO Basics: Code and Website Optimzation
Once you finished your Keyword research, you should have a list of 70+ keywords and phrases that you're ready to use through out your site's content. Armed with this list, you can put those keywords and phrases in the following places, to help improve your sites ranking and index process....
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This article is for everyone. You may have a small business with a website your nephew built. You may be the nephew about to build your uncle's small business rad website. I'll run down what SEO is, basic setup and principles....
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You own a small business. It could be a restaurant or coffee shop, or you run a small auto repair shop. You already have a website but you've heard about this mysterious cheap marketing thing called SEO....
Read MoreCreating Custom Google Maps for Businesses
When creating a website for a local business, more often than not I include a google map. It's a great easy way for people who visually see where the business is located. However there are a few reasons why just embedding them on the page isn't always ideal:...
Read MoreCreating Custom Excerpts based on paragraphs
With a few of my clients, they wanted more than the standard excerpt. They wanted to display a paragraph or two of the post. without echoing out a whole post in an archive or landing page. Now Wordpress has great examples on how to do things similar to this with get_the_excerpt(); and the_excerpt(); .However i wanted to try a new method, using a mix of stand PHP functions and a few Wordpress functions I haven't used before....
Read MoreCreating External Link for Admin Submenu
Have you ever wanted to add a submenu that didn't link to a page you created? A while back, a client requested a link to a particular view and arrangement of a table in admin area of Wordpress. To the best of my knowledge, there wasn't a standard function within wordpress used to pair a submenu item, that you could customize, to a parent top level menu....
Read MoreFont Awesome 4.2.0 fixes for Firefox
Font Awesome is a great icon resource and I encourage everybody to give it a try at least once. It's my go to icon set whenever I'm using social media links on a website. One problem people run in to is that from time to time a random icon won't load correctly in Firefox. Here are a few solutions if you notice one or all of your font's aren't working:...
Read MoreUsing Google Docs for hosting Forms
I use Wordpress a lot for the CMS of a site that I'm building or working on. This has come with it's ups and downs.Obviously the ups are way to much larger than the downs for the most part, or we wouldn't use it. However, one of the downfalls of letting someone else do the code is getting rusty, especially with coding websites....
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