What’s in Your Title Tags?

By Tom Nguyen / April 1, 2010 /

Title tags are what you see in the blue bar on top of your browser. Search engines pay heavy attention to what’s in this blue bar.  You should put your relevant keywords in this section.  If you do put keywords in the title bar, make sure that the keywords pertain to what’s on the page.

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Check Your Links

By Tom Nguyen / December 9, 2009 /

You’re in business and now you have a website.  Congratulations!  You’ll want to make sure that all of your site’s links are valid.  An easy way to do this is to go to http://validator.w3.org/checklink and type in your company’s website URL.  Doing this will save you lots of time because you won’t have to manually…

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Good Copy and Testimonials

By Tom Nguyen / November 3, 2009 /

When you get your website developed, be sure to include good copy and testimonials. What do I mean by good copy?  Your copy should include the keywords that you want to rank for in search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.), and those keywords need to flow naturally.  Your copy should include a call to action…

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CAPTCHA

By Tom Nguyen / June 8, 2009 /

What does it stand for?  It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.  Have you ever filled out a website contact form and at the very bottom, you’ve seen a generate image of letters and/or numbers that you have to type in?  If you have, then you’ve seen a…

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What You Should Do When Building Your Website Part 2

By Tom Nguyen / January 14, 2009 /

I’m back again with more information.  You probably didn’t think there was so many elements to having a website developed.  Well, here’s the beef! Design search engine friendly pages – What do I mean by search engine friendly?  I mean going with a tableless layout with a heavy reliance on Cascading Style Sheets(CSS).  The beauty…

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What You Should Do When Building Your Website

By Tom Nguyen / January 4, 2009 /

A couple of weeks ago, I talked about what to avoid when having your website.  Today, I’m going to add to that and talk about what design guidelines should be followed when having your site developed. Leave the color of your links alone – The default color of an unvisited website link is blue.  Let’s say…

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What Not to Do When Having Your Website Built

By Tom Nguyen / December 19, 2008 /

Here is a list of things not to do when having your website built.  This can be helpful information for existing website owners as well as people who do not have a website and are interested in getting one. Avoid using Flash intros – You know what I’m talking about.  The 15-30 second intro before you…

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Choosing a Domain Name Part 3

By Tom Nguyen / December 2, 2008 /

We’re here to wrap it up with our final installment of our Choosing a Domain Name series.  As always, we like to get into the meat of the subject rather quickly.  So, here are more tips! Stick with .com for businesses and .org for non-profit organizations – Usually people will type in the .com extension,…

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Choosing a Domain Name Part 2

By Tom Nguyen / November 25, 2008 /

We’re back to provide more helpful hints on choosing a domain name for your website.  Enough formalities, let’s cut to the chase: Check for availability – You don’t want to do all of your business planning around a domain name that isn’t available.  If the domain name is available, register it now!!!  We say this because…

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Choosing a Domain Name Part 1

By Tom Nguyen / November 20, 2008 /

You’ve decided you want a website and now you have the challenging task of choosing a domain name.  For those of you who don’t know what a domain name is, it is your website address (www.mrtechnique.com is this website’s address).  Picking a domain name could be a challenging task.  This week and over the next…

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