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…
DetailsSome 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…
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DetailsUpdate 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…
DetailsQuestion: “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…
DetailsQuestion: “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…
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