Mobile Social Networking – Take 3

I’m experimenting with mobile social networking again. I have joined the dark side and have acquired an iPhone, the ultimate mobile social networking tool. I attempted mobile social networking with my Blackberry but gave up as the experience was inferior. My Android was originally up to the task, although it was a bit of a kludge [...]

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Blog post 100 for newmediaMike

Welcome to blog post #100 of newmediaMike. I wanted to do something different for a milestone post and thought a video blog would be a good idea. A good idea yes, but I forgot the work that goes into producing even a simple 2 minute piece. Especially when you are as rusty as I was. [...]

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Taking down my WordPress Training Wizard shingle

It is with great sadness that I announce I am taking down my “WordPress Training Wizard” shingle for good. I started WordPress training on a one to one basis over two years ago. The genesis of the idea came to me after I sold a client a WordPress site and sat down to train them [...]

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SEO Best Practices – Meta Description Tag

Next in my series of SEO Best Practices I examine the Meta Description tag. What Is the Meta Description Tag? The Meta Description Tag is a snippet of HTML code which you can find inside the <Head> section of a web page. The description tag is normally placed after the Title tag and before the [...]

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SEO Best Practices – Title Tag

One of the first elements I always correct with any client large or small is the title tag. Bringing title tags up to best practices can often generate quick and visible differences to your rankings since the terms in the title tag appear in the clickable link on the search engine results page (SERP). According [...]

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SEO Best Practices – URL Structure

In part three of my series of blog posts on SEO Best Practices I will examine the importance of the URL structure to search engine optimization. The Best Practice around URL Structure states: The URL structure of dynamic, database-driven pages should look simple, static and contain a keyword phrase relevant to the theme of the [...]

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SEO Best Practices – Single Theme per page

In my last blog post I introduced you to my philosophy on search and the SEO Best Practices I have been developing over the last 14 years as a search marketing practitioner.  In this the second in the series we will begin examining these SEO Best Practices. The first best practice deals with having a [...]

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