Bing Helps find the Lowest Costs for Airfare

The new search engine by Microsoft, Bing.com, offers a great tool for travelers looking for low prices on flights. The tool combines two methods for users to find the best deal: 1)      Airfare deals – The tool searches all flights from the major carriers and provides them in order from the lowest cost. The intuitive…

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Are You Ready For The Wave?

Google today released the beta version of their ground breaking web technology Google Wave to a closed group of 100,000 testers. The final test group will help Google locate the remaining bugs in the product before its highly anticipated release later this year. Wave has been a highly talked about product ever since its announcement…

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The Facebook Model of Success

The internet is currently flooded with articles, blog posts, and tweets about social networking. You have to be living in a 3rd world country to have not heard of MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and on and on… The buzz of internet marketing has caught on faster than anyone would have predicted. The question we now ask…

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sitemap.html Vs. Sitemap.xml

There are two types of sitemaps that you can create to help search engines crawl your website. The first is an HTML file labeled sitemap.html. This file provides the links to all the pages within your website in a simple list fashion and usually categorized. They HTML file helps search engines figure out how all the…

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Using Video to Improve your SEO

Google recently announced its plans to discontinue the services of Google Video. This comes as no surprise to many as rumors have gone around for a while about Google’s plans to increase the use and relevance of YouTube videos. YouTube Google purchased YouTube in Oct. of 2006 for a lofty $1.65 billion. YouTube is still seeing…

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Dreamweaver Web Widgets

Attention Dreamweaver CS4 users … Adobe has created an excellent resource to download free open source web widgets through the Adobe Exchange. These resources include jQuery apps like a calendar, scroll bar, and accordion style navigation. Other widgets like Spry framework apps and gallery tools are available as well.

Optimize Your Page Titles

One of the most common SEO tips that we give as part of Crown Point Design’s free SEO site consultations, is to optimize the page titles on your site. Page Titles are located in the very top left corner of your web browser. We often find that websites are using the same page title for every…

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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Here is an excellent video that was created in response to the buzz around Web 2.0. The video helps describe how the world wide web is changing and the ways that information are shared and viewed. This video was created by Mike Wesch, a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Since its release…

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