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I often recommend adding a blog to my small business clients’ websites – and I do this to improve their website traffic and search engine rankings. How can adding a blog accomplish these goals?

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Based on personal experience, I’ve found it very hard to find a therapist with a website when I started looking at names from an insurance provider list. So I wondered, just how many therapists have websites of their own?

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This wonderful question was posted by a therapist Linked-In group I joined: should therapists allow clients to “friend” them on Facebook. Seems like the topic comes up often enough to have really struck a chord with the therapists.

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When you are changing hosting companies, you often need to preview the website on the new hosting company while you are building the website. But how is this done? Different hosting companies have different methods to accomplish this preview. This little tidbit is a hard to find one and required a phone call to GoDaddy.

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I recently had a client who had her website that was under development reviewed by another web design firm, and one of their suggestions was to change all the text navigation links from text to images. Is this a good idea?

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A client contacted me today and wanted to know how to write a review for my business on Google Maps. When I checked, the review button was gone!

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Here’s what has worked for me:

RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^coolexample.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.coolexample.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Create .htaccess (text) file and put at root directory level.

Now if someone leaves out the “www”, it will be put in, which is good for search engines. They don’t like to find the non-www and the www version, they want one or the other.

I’ve had several clients ask me this, because either they’ve noticed it on other people’s websites or had some SEO person tell them this – that they need a keyword meta tag.

Google has not (for many years) used this meta tag, and therefore, it’s simply a waste of time to put them in a website. If you don’t believe me, listen to this video from Matt Cutts from Google: Read the rest of this entry »

Really. Eric Schmidt, Google Inc’s Executive Charmain told Boston University Students to:

Take your eyes off that screen and look into the eyes of the person you love. Have a conversation, a real conversation.

Read the full article on Huff Post. How do you folks feel about this sentiment coming from Google. It made me raise one eyebrow.

I’ve spent too much time hunting how to Make a Facebook Like button – and so gosh darn it, I’m writing a blog article to help you folks maybe find it faster. At least I will know where to get it.

It’s here: Facebook Like Button. I prefer using the iframe method, because it’s nice and simple and you can stick the code anywhere in one block. If you found this helpful, click my Facebook like button below, just for irony 🙂