WordPress Plugin: HeadSpace… Better Than All-in-One?

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WordPress Plugin: HeadSpace… Better Than All-in-One?

By Pat Marcello on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | 8 Comments

I have spent the past couple of years touting the coolness of the All-in-One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress. This one lets you add a title and description to every post you make, which is super important for SEO. As I’ve mentioned here before, the title and description are the most important parts of any [...]

TwitterLights

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 | 10 Comments

[tip]So, I found a very useful and cool tool today called “TwitterLights,” at http://www.twitterlights.com/[/tip] It allows you to highlight the cool part of a web page, and it saves whatever you choose as an entry in your Inbox on the site. You can go there, and compile a blog post from it or you can [...]

SEO: What Exactly Is "No Follow"?

By Pat Marcello on Monday, March 16th, 2009 | 31 Comments

One of the ways that SEOs stop page rank bleed from one page to another is by using the “no follow” tag in URLs. For example, on your home page, it does you no good whatsoever to have search engine spiders follow links to your terms of service or privacy policy pages. Do you really [...]

Web 2.0: Want a Free Twitter Background Template?

By Pat Marcello on Friday, March 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments

So, it’s been a loooooooong day, and I’m just wrapping things up. Thanks to a Twitter friend, Kat Tansey (@kattansey), I found this very cool background template for Twitter that you can make right from your PowerPoint program. Pretty sweet, eh? Get it HERE I haven’t actually tried it yet, but thought I’d pass it [...]

Internet Marketing: Why Is Your Picture Important?

By Pat Marcello on Thursday, March 12th, 2009 | 34 Comments

Why is using a picture important? Branding. Simple. YOU are your business. Unless you have gone to the trouble of having a company logo designed, what’s the face of your business? You are. And online, which is more important? YOU are. People trust people. People don’t trust corporations. So, even if you had a fancy-schmancy [...]

Blogging: Fun Plugin

By Pat Marcello on Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | 9 Comments

As I was cruising Twitter today, I found a link to a blog post about plugins. I should write these things down, but I just go from place to place and then forget to note my breadcrumbs so that I can give proper credit. Every time I do that, I’m kicking myself, and I deserve [...]

SEO: Are You Valid?

By Pat Marcello on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | 12 Comments

Sounds weird, huh? Are you valid? Well, of course, I’m not talking about YOU, you… I’m talking about your web pages. What is validation? There are several places where you can go to have the code on your web page validated. The one I use, and the standard is http://validator.w3.org/ When you run your code [...]

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