SMO (Social Media Optimization)?

Posted on 05/24/2009 by The Artist

What is SMO? Well, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is all about setting your site up to be a grand winner in the search engine “races”. You work on meta tags, descriptions, word-density in your static pages. and so much more. But is SMO related? In a way yes, but in a very different way. SMO is a term to describe the use of Social Networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, My Space (and to some lesser extent ever YouTube) and more in order to further expanded an individual’s or business’ marketing reach. By using these sites to advertise their products or services, … Continue reading →

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Review: Platium SEO Pack Plugin

Posted on 02/11/2009 by Drakenhart

As I learn more about SEO and Plugins in general, I decided to trim down some of the multiple-use plugins for ones that were all inclusive. In short, fewer plugins helps the site run faster and load more quickly. So I want the power of many of these SEO Plugins without the need for so many downloads. The Platinum SEO Pack offers this and is a pretty powerful tool. So far I like what it offers and have disabled other SEO Plugins. But I did discover something. After visiting the Site Grader, it informed me that I had not site … Continue reading →

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Heigh-ho

Posted on 02/03/2009 by The Artist

I’m working on a friend’s website at the moment, so things have slowed in getting my new design up and running. Rather then let the site site and suffer, I’ve temp-skinned it with a theme that is at the very least goos looking and very functional. Please bear with me as I work. Thank you!

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The new SEO!

Posted on 01/28/2009 by Drakenhart

No tips, no tricks, no insider trader info, just facts. Common sense facts! SEO. I’m sure plenty of you have heard of the term. Even better some of you may know what it is and how to go about doing it. Some may only know the “old way” that most search engines are rejecting for better and more exacting options. For those that don’t read on. For those that do skip down a bit. What is SEO? SEO is a short form acronym for “Search Engine Optimization”. What this is or does, is offer the search engines information to try … Continue reading →

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AdRotate Banner Flexibility!

Posted on 01/25/2009 by The Artist

One of the problems I had with AdRotate was that the widget form doesn’t allow for multiple widgets to show different groups of banners in a sidebar. (At the time of this writing.) At least, not using the WordPress admin panel.  But, after reading through the site I realized you can ad banners everywhere. No really…, everywhere! Thinking about that I realized we can even add them to our headers, or better yet use it to replace the header image entirely! *shock* Now one thing I’ve always wanted to do is to have my “skins” change for the seasons. More … Continue reading →

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