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WordPress and Local SEO Training

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SEO Features in SmallBiz WordPress Theme

Take a video tour of the Local SEO features in the SmallBiz WordPress Theme!

Small Business Website Podcast – New On Expand2Web

I‘m pleased to announce my new podcast series for small business owners and consultants – The Expand2Web Podcast – has been accepted in iTunes and is now online!

How To Rank In The Local Search Results

Imagine being able to sit down at the table with 27 people who spend all day figuring out how Google and Yahoo rank local search results.

New WordPress Tutorial Series – Using WordPress

Updating your website shouldn't be hard. If your website is based on a tool like WordPress, you can update it without having to understand HTML and CSS. This tutorial series shows you how.

WordPress Plugin to Show Your Online Reviews

July 21, 2010

Have you ever wanted to show off your online reviews on your website? If you are a small business, it’s a best practice for a few reasons:

It makes it easy for your customers to leave you an online review
It shows potential customers that you are transparent about your reviews and what your customers say about [...]

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Local Search Interview with Randy Hew

July 20, 2010

Randy has been working with me and Thomas on Expand2Web for about a year now. He’s driving a lot of our business development and SEO efforts.
One of the first things he did when we started working together was to take his wife’s business, North Valley Optometry and put it on the map – literally.
When [...]

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WordPress Theme Update – The All New SmallBiz 3.0

July 11, 2010

I‘m very excited to announce the availability of the SmallBiz 3.0 WordPress Theme!
Thomas and I have been following each of the WordPress 3.0 beta drops, and attended WordCamp in San Francisco this April to make sure the SmallBiz theme shines on WordPress 3.0.
Along the way we discovered some of the cool new features in [...]

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Video Testimonial for SmallBiz WordPress Theme

July 10, 2010

On Tuesday night I was checking my email and got this really nice note from one of my clients. She took the time to make a great video testimonial for me and my SmallBiz WordPress Theme.
Thomas and I work really hard on this theme, and are constantly updating it based on things we learn [...]

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Custom Sidebars in SmallBiz WordPress Theme

June 23, 2010

One of the things we get asked a lot is: “How can I show a different sidebar for each page on my website?”
For example, maybe you want to display an email newsletter opt-in form on your home page side bar, but a YouTube Video instead on the photos page sidebar?
The SmallBiz WordPress Theme allows you [...]

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Local SEO Tips for Site-Wide Elements of a Website

June 22, 2010

This post is part 10 of a 10 post series on local website optimization and local search keyword selection by guest author Jeff Howard. A complete list of all posts and links can be found at the bottom of the page.
For this final post we will discuss how to optimize the footer, header and images [...]

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Making Sure All Website Copy Supports Local SEO

June 18, 2010

This post is part 9 of a 10 post series on local website optimization and local search keyword selection by guest author Jeff Howard. A complete list of all posts and links can be found at the bottom of the page.
In the last post we covered how to audit many attributes of a web [...]

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WordPress 3.0 is out and SmallBiz is Ready!

June 17, 2010

Well it’s out. WordPress 3.0 is here and packed with a ton of exciting new features.
And I’m happy to say that our SmallBiz WordPress Theme works perfectly on it.
We’ve been testing all through the betas and the release candidates. We were even at WordCamp last month in San Francisco planning out which of [...]

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Auditing Individual Website Pages for Local Search Optimization

June 15, 2010

This post is part 8 of a 10 post series on local website optimization and local search keyword selection by guest author Jeff Howard. A complete list of all posts and links can be found at the bottom of the page.
This post will go over the meat and potatoes of optimizing individual web pages [...]

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