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SEO Features in SmallBiz WordPress Theme

February 28, 2010
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Local SEO features are built into the SmallBiz WordPress Theme to provide a solid foundation for great local search results.
Watch the video for a short tour:

I’ve worked with hundreds of small businesses to help them build a successful web presence, and designed this theme based on my experience working with them. We’re continuing to [...]

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Google Voice in Chrome

February 12, 2010

I just installed the Google Voice extension for Chrome browser, and stumbled on this neat little trick – once installed, it turns any phone number on a web page you are visiting into a click-to-call hyperlink!
When you click it, it will dial that phone number and ring your phone to connect the two of you [...]

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Choose The Right Categories for Your Google LBC Listing

February 10, 2010

Getting your offline business into the Google “Lucky 7 Pack” depends on number of factors. One of the most important is the categories that you choose for your business.
When you claim or update your Google LBC listing you can choose up to 5 categories for your business.
Finding all the categories that apply to [...]

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Verify Your WordPress Website in Google Webmaster Tools

February 3, 2010
Google Webmaster Tools = Swiss Army Knife for your WordPress Website!

Google Webmaster Tools is one of the most powerful free toolkits at your disposal for making sure Google can crawl your website properly.

In order to use Google Webmaster tools for your website, you need to verify it with Google to prove that you own the website.
There are two ways to do this:

Uploading [...]

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How To Add Custom Forms To Your WordPress Website or Blog

January 26, 2010

Have you ever wanted to add a custom form to your WordPress Blog or Website?
There are a lot of free WordPress plugins to do this. You can easily find some good contact forms out there, with Captchas to help prevent SPAM.
But what if you want to create a custom form to collect more detailed [...]

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How to Turn Off Google Customized Search Results for SEO

January 24, 2010

Google customizes the search results it shows you based on your past behavior. It looks at what you’ve searched for and what you’ve clicked on and delivers different results based on that.
If you are doing any search engine optimization (SEO) work for yourself or your clients, you need to turn these customizations off so you [...]

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How to Add an Image to Your WordPress Sidebar

January 21, 2010

Here is something I get asked a lot – how can I add an image to my WordPress sidebar?
This video shows you how:

In the video, I’ll show you how to upload the widget using the WordPress Media Library, grab the URL for the uploaded image, and then use a WordPress Text Widget to display your [...]

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How To Add Social Media Icons To Your WordPress Website

November 26, 2009
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Watch this video to see how to add cool looking Twitter, YouTube and Facebook icons that link to your social media profiles to your WordPress Website sidebar:

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How Google Social Search Works

October 26, 2009
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Google Social Search is an “experimental” feature you can turn on find publicly available web content from your “social circle.”
This sounds kind of like the Facebook “social grid,” except it pulls info from across many other web services like Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, your Blog, and thousands of others.

The online social services you belong to create [...]

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WordPress Custom Page Template with No Sidebars

October 25, 2009

When building a WordPress Website for your business, one of the common things people want to do is to provide a home page that does not look like a blog. The Expand2Web SmallBiz theme automatically provides this for you – a page that tells visitors about your business and provides a clear call to action. [...]

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