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A Favorites Icon, also known as a favicon, is an often overlooked branding tool that every website should have. It is displayed differently by each browser, but in most cases is shown to the left of the URL or opened Tab. It also always appears in the Favorites Folder or Bookmarks, so people can easily…
Many small businesses with a new or small web presence get stuck in the trap that investing in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) will solve their web problems and drive traffic. As a search engine optimizer I can say that is not the case. Small businesses are better off investing in an Internet Marketing strategy that incorporates…
While recently shopping for a new HD LCD Television I was shocked to learn how far the technology has come. Most of the new high end televisions are now providing Ethernet connections to access the Internet. This has allowed TVs to add online widgets for live weather, local news, traffic updates, sports scores, and much…
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…
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…
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…
This tutorial outlines 5 simple On-Page SEO strategies. Anyone that has experience surfing the web should have an understanging of the topics covered.
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…
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…
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.