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January 2009

9 Reasons to use the Thesis WordPress Theme

January 25, 2009

Update: Since this article was written I am no longer using Thesis to build business websites. Thesis was a revolutionary theme when it came out three years ago, and I enjoyed working with it. Now we’ve created our own WordPress theme tuned for building business websites fast and getting the best local search results. We [...]

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SEMMY Award Nominations Announced

January 22, 2009

Want to see some of the best content in the search and online marketing industry for 2008? That’s why Matt McGee created the SEMMY Awards – as a way to honor these contributions each year. The awards cover a wide variety of categories, from SEO and Local Search, to blogging, social media, design and usability, [...]

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Manage Your Local Business Profiles with GetListed.org

January 21, 2009

GetListed.org provides a nice way for small business owners to manage their local business profiles in Google, Yahoo, MSN and more. The service guides you through the process of finding and claiming your profiles in four major directories – Google Local Business Center, Yahoo Local, MSN Local and Best of the Web Local (BOTW.) The [...]

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Improve Your Local Search Results With Video

January 9, 2009

Small Businesses looking to improve their search results usually don’t think of video first. But Google is “blending” videos in with the traditional search results more and more, and this represents a huge area of opportunity. How video helps Forrester did some practical research and testing on this and found that a video has a [...]

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Video: Make WordPress Look Like a Website

January 2, 2009

This video walk-through is a follow-on to my recent post How To Create a Custom Page Template in WordPress. In the video, we’ll walk through how to create a WordPress Page to show up as the default for your website (instead of the standard list of blog posts.) Then we’ll take it to the next [...]

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How To Move Your Site From WordPress.com To WordPress.org

January 2, 2009

I get a lot of questions like “What is the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?” and “When should I use one vs the other?” Here is a great post over on ProBlogger that details how to move from WordPress.com to WordPress.org (i.e. your own self-hosted version of WordPress) quickly and painlessly!

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How To Create A Custom Page Template In WordPress

January 1, 2009

This is a follow-on from my article called: How To Make WordPress Look Like a Website, where we walked through changing which page shows up as the home page for your WordPress website. The idea was to make it look more like a web site rather than a blog. We changed the front page, but [...]

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