Monthly Archives: June 2009

Twitter, are you taking advantage yet?

Posted by Jamie on June 29, 2009 1,991 comments

I’m sure you are well aware of Twitter by now.  If you are not, perhaps you should crawl out of the hole in the crowd and begin checking out the latest fad on the Internet!  People are absolutely obsessed with Twitter right now.  There are a million sites out there on how to make money on Twitter, how to find followers on Twitter, etc…

Over the past two months I have been receiving some traffic from Twitter.  Nothing major, just a few visits a day here and there, so it never really caught my attention.  At work, my boss wants to jump on the band wagon with Twitter and check it out and see what we can do.  Being a web development firm it’s important to be able to develop in the various API’s for the hot trends, e.g. iPhone, Blackberry, Facebook, Twitter, etc…

So, I began looking into it a bit more.  I signed up for my blog; you can follow me here if you like: http://twitter.com/endyourif Read more »

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How to write for people and rank high with your keywords

Posted by Jamie on June 22, 2009 26 comments

Using the right keywords are important, but don’t let this drive your content.  It’s important to remember what your first goal should be and not your second.  Your first goal is write and provide useful content to people who do find your content.  Your second goal is for search engines to rank it well.

So, how can this be done?  Start by thinking about what your keywords are for your content.  Once you have your keywords decided, create a title for your content and integrate your keywords into them.  Make sure your title is intuitive, keyword rich, and catches people’s eye.  This can be done through good keywords, a secret, and/or a descriptive title describing exactly what the user wants. Read more »

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Follow me on Twitter

Posted by Jamie on June 19, 2009 2,163 comments

I’m sure it’s been a long time coming, but I’ve set myself up a Twitter account and you can follow my latest blogs on there.  Check it out here:

http://twitter.com/endyourif

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The Shocking Truth to Website Success…and it’s not top Google Rankings!

Posted by Jamie on June 15, 2009 1,441 comments

Do I believe in SEO?  Absolutely I do.  Do I believe in link popularity?  Absolutely I do.  Do I believe in targeted keywords?  Absolutely I do.  Do I think it’s the most important thing?  No, I don’t.  I am going to reveal to you the true method to a successful website on the Internet!

Being well ranked in Google on specific keywords is good.  Incoming links, both reciprocal links and one-way links are great.  But it will only really pay dividends after you’ve focused on success, the true way. Read more »

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Facebook Development – Quick and Easy Dialogs

Posted by Jamie on June 10, 2009 2,474 comments

At my work, whenever we have a link to delete records, we always have a simple Javascript confirm dialog pop-up.  The confirm dialog just does the standard, “Are you sure you wish to delete this record?” with an OK and Cancel button.  If the user clicks cancel, the record is not deleted, if they click OK, the record will be deleted.

If you’ve done some Facebook development, you will notice quickly that the alert() and confirm() functions do not work.  I’ve found this slightly annoying, so I’ve written a very simple Javascript function that let’s me use the nifty dialogs that Facebook provides us. Read more »

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Sharing your way to success

Posted by Jamie on June 6, 2009 2,048 comments

In today’s article I am going to discuss something that *hopefully* was taught to you at a very young age.  For me, this dates back to my earliest memories of being a child.  In your life, how many times have you heard someone say, “You must share that with others.”?  I’m pretty sure it’s more than you can count!

Well, what’s old is new again.  Sharing is an excellent way to achieve better search engine rankings as well as additional traffic.  Right now, this is what I’m doing, I’m sharing my idea with you in hopes that you will visit my web site and enjoy the excellent content that I have on it. Read more »

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