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Website Performance Matters: Optimizing for Speed in WordPress

Google has confirmed that they will start taking page load time into consideration when determining the rank of sites in their search results. Here are a couple of tips to speed up your WordPress-powered website.

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Google Domination is Good for Your Business

As the world’s single most powerful media and technology force, Google is doing more than just changing the interactive marketing machine for small and mid size business. They’re biting, chewing and spitting out old notions of interactive marketing. Google is making “small” and “fearless” a competitive advantage. They are reconstituting and democratizing the very notion [...]

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Google Buzz, What Is It?

Heard about Google Buzz? Are you having trouble understanding it? Here is one way to explain it: Your Email Has Problems I don’t mean your email is broken; it probably works fine. Messages go out, messages come in – it works. I don’t mean that it’s a mistake to use email, either. So What’s the [...]

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Happy First Birthday ChirpUp!

On February 12, 2009, we launched our business and ChirpUp.com. We kicked off an intense year filled with hard work and hustle. We met an incredible collection of new and established businesses. Rob and I pledged to be our own case study.  We committed ourselves to a spirit of openness and education and a little [...]

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How To Know Your Old Fashioned Website is Dead

It was painstaking stuff building that website of yours. When your company finally got serious about it, the process made you think about things you never really considered. You worked with your web developer and solved all kinds of problems together – identity, interactivity, information. Nice work! (Or maybe you just slapped up a brochure [...]

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How to Respond to Negative Feedback

Want to be transparent and do it in a high-tech way? Google is trying to help you for free. Google’s Favorite Places is a business-to-consumer program where participating local businesses will have a window decal from Google that can be scanned by a person’s iPhone to extract instant data. That means, your furniture store or [...]

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How to Use WordPress SEO Plug-Ins

Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft’s Bing are critical marketing channels for mid-size businesses. We love using WordPress as a marketing platform because these search engines love blogs. Your site and it’s updates will be “found” by Google quickly if it’s based around a great blogging engine like WordPress which has several powerful plug-ins for optimizing search [...]

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SEO Keywords for Business Marketing Blogs

If you’re using a blog to market your business, be sure to include strategic keywords in your blog posts and social media messages. Understand which Google search terms define your industry, your business and the specific post topic for search engine optimization (SEO).  Spend time with Google.  How will your target audience attempt to find [...]

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