You have most likely heard the buzz about Cloud Storage, how it is fated as the future of Web technology and is a must have for many businesses, especially enterprise companies. Of course, there are those with opinions on the subject, both in favor of cloud adoption and against it. To my mind, what Cloud…
You have likely seen ads for buying vanity domain extensions, those .xxx commercials, and have asked yourself, is this something I need? My answer in short is “NO”. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) used 2011 to encourage customized (and very expensive) extensions for top-level domains (i.e. Volkswagon buying .vw or Wells Fargo…
Some time back I wrote about the benefit of using Facebook’s “notes” feature to add your blog posts automatically to your Facebook wall. Well, if you haven’t heard Facebook discontinued the ability to import a blog feed into your Facebook a couple of months back. If you are like me and blog a lot, yet…
Question: “We are looking for a company that can help our company reach first tiered placement online in regular and local search results on Google and we were hoping that you were the company to do it. What we are looking for in terms of service is optimizing our website for search, providing whatever linking needs…
Update Note: Since I added this post, I received an email back from my client wherein she noted that she used my suggestions of writing a cordial email to the site owner that her content had been stolen. In my client’s words: “The guy wrote back that it was his web developer who did it (yeah, right) and…
Question: “I work as the social media marketing directory for my company, and they have been paying some web optimization company $300/month to maintain their SEO. And since we are not coming up in the searches, it is clearly not working. I have made several recommendations on the things that my company can do outside…
Question: “I am interested in having a website built or doing it myself possibly (I have some experience with Dreamweaver), and would like to be able to make changes to it myself. I have been told that I need a CMS website (WordPress and Joomla were mentioned), but I am not quite clear on what…
Question: “I am interested in creating my own website myself, and I was hoping to get your opinion on the best website development platform for doing this. I don’t have a lot of design experience, and it needs to be either free, or low cost. I currently have an account setup at Godaddy using their…
Question: “I just read something in the last week that warned against building a new website to increase SEO unless all other options had been exhausted. I guess that only applies to sites that are easy to optimize, not ones that are built in the format the Oaktrees site is built in???” Reply: My guess…
This is “Part 2” of my big list of social media and other popular networking opportunities that your business may wish to consider for reaching more potential customers, business partners and employees. It is important to note that a successful networking and social media strategy needs to be tailored to the business, and manageable, so…