Aldebaran Web Design's Blog

Duplicate content is not a topic I usually talk about with my website clients. Perhaps it’s because of my academic background and the fear of being accused of plagiarism that my professors drilled into me.

I presume small business owners know they shouldn’t put content on their websites that they didn’t create themselves, but recently, I realized this was an incorrect assumption. And like I usually do when something surprises me, I write a blog article about it 🙂
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To optimize your blog for search engines (search engine optimization or SEO), you should understand how much of an impact individual post titles can have on your post’s rankings, and how to manipulate post slugs. Titles and slugs?!
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Maybe you’ve noticed the orange icon at the top of my blog’s URL or on this page, and you’re wondering what the heck is it.

Or maybe you’ve heard others talking about RSS feeds and felt left out.

Or maybe you just are looking for a way learn about ways to improve your small business website but don’t have time to go around searching for information. Using RSS is a great way to have information that’s customized to your tastes and interests, come right to you - just like a waiter will bring you what your ordered from the menu.
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I received a strange email from a client, who said that he thought his website had a virus. When he went to his WordPress blog, he received this pop-up warning from VirusScan:

If you have a WordPress blog, please read on.
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This is a video tutorial covering how to add an image to a WordPress post. It assumes that you already know how to login to your WordPress Dashboard and know how to write a post.
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Are you receiving contact forms from your website that are full of spam? Are you sick and tired of getting these contact forms filled with junk, or worse, offensive content? Are you wondering if there is anyway to protect your contact form from spam? The answer is YES, and it’s known as “CAPTCHA”.
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The ECT (ECommerceTemplates) online store has a nice administration area that allows store owners to manage every aspect of their stores. Here’s just one quick tutorial on how to view orders in your ECT online store.
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I made this diagram and explanation to help clients help me set up their website pages that use Web Yep, my favorite content management tool. Web Yep is good, because clients can’t inadvertently damage their websites. This is because Web Yep keeps clients in specified areas that are called “Elements”. If you know HTML, you can use the Web Yep editor to create HTML code. But if you don’t know HTML, Web Yep will need to be configured as described below:
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This video tutorial takes you through the basics looking at your website statistics using Web-Stat, my favorite website traffic tracking service. If you want to sign up for Web-Stat, click here, they have a 30 day free trial. Enjoy the video!

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I love WordPress. But with so many things to think about, keeping my WordPress blog up to date with the latest version keeps slipping my mind. That’s why I recently signed up for automatic notifications.
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