Web Design Tips

Case Study: Great Prayer Project – March 2010

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Discover how I was able to increase traffic to a website by 264%, the Google Page Ranking from 1 to 4, and the time spend on the website by over 1 minute.

About five months ago a friend of mine approached me with an interesting idea for a website. The website goal was to unite individuals in one voice, in one prayer, a prayer to end abortion. His idea was to set up time slots, with each time slot lasting 20 minutes. That would make 72 time slots a day and for the entire year a total of 26,280. Realizing it was going to be no easy feat to find enough individuals to fill that many time slots, I figure this was going to be a project that would take my SEO skills to the max.
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Blog Web Design

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

I am proud to announce the purchase of BlogWebDesign.net to my portfolio of domain names. I am planning on the development Blog Web Design in the very near further. Please check back here often to find the lastest news about website I am developing.

Top Five plugins for Elgg

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

If you are unaware of Elgg, you are missing out on a great CMS. Elgg allows you to develop your own social networking website. This is great for anything from a business needing a way for its employees to stay in contact each other effectively to social networking website that focus on a particular interest or hobby. I have even used it to set up a website for my family so we can better stay up to date with what everyone is up too.

One of the nice features of Elgg is it allows plugins to add features to your social networking website. You are able to create your own plugins or you can take advantage of plugins others have already developed. I am going to focus this article on plugins that others have already developed and have added to the community area on Elgg website. The list below is in no particular order.
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SEO Tips to Leap Ahead of Your Competition – Part 1

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Has your website been struggling to make sales? Wondering what your competition is doing better than you are? Trying to figure out what your next online move will be?

I personally feel the best way to leap ahead of one’s competition is to first figure out what your competition is doing better than you are. How are they marketing their website more effectively? Where are their customers coming from? Who is your competition targeting demographic ways? If you don’t know what your competition is up to or who they are marketing to that may be a different demographic than you are, you are most likely missing out on sales.
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Five Simple Free SEO Tips

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

I just want to cover a few simply and free tips on how to optimize your ranking with search engines. People use search engines to help them find information, products and much more. As a website owner, you want to make sure your website is in the top three pages of any keywords that are relevant to your business. Some of these tips may require the help of your website designer while others are things you can do yourself.
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