December 5, 2012

Improve your SEO with InboundWriter a Clever Content Optimization Tool

We recently reviewed InboundWriter, a newish SEO Content Optimization Tool that’s available as a Web application or as a WordPress plug in.

InboundWriter launched in May 2011 giving online content writers an easy way to focus on just the content, which makes for better quality content, and higher keyword placements for maximizing search traffic. It has a handy editor that gives you recommendations in real time about how to improve your document for the Web.

You can feed it a keyword or keywords and it will research sites that are known authorities on the subject and use natural language processing (NLP) technology to extract key concepts from all the sites they have previously analyzed.

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September 30, 2012

Do Smart Devices and Social Media Impact Your Shopping Habits?

Have you noticed a change in the way that you shop online in recent years? Do you use customer reviews before you buy something? Do you listen to your your Facebook friends when they recommend or like certain products? Do tweets tickle your fancy to hop on your smartphone to check out a product?

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May 18, 2012 Chances are, if you’re reading this, you are a web developer getting into responsive design. Here is what I’ve found out about

<meta name="viewport">

after a lot of trial and error. It was created by apple to allow developers to specify the default size of the page for mobile devices. In researching the viewport meta tag I’ve found people use different parameters that change how the webpage acts on mobile browsers. The ‘barebones’ version of the viewport meta tag is:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">

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April 20, 2012

WordPress is a wonderful open-source publishing software that can be used to build beautiful websites or blogs. However, you have to be prepared and have the know-how to keep it secure or it can pose a risk for your website or even the server it’s hosted on. Check out these thirteen tips (from a programmer’s perspective) to help you secure you WordPress website.

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March 27, 2012

Update your Facebook Page for Timeline

If you’ve been procrastinating updating your brand’s Facebook page to comply with the changes in Facebook Timeline, good job: It’s only a few days until it goes into effect on March 30th.

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July 8, 2011

Will you be Google’s +1? Google hopes so. They recently introduced Google +1 for AdWords, which is similar to the Facebook Like button, but if someone “+1′s” your site or ad it ends up in the Google search results page (if they’re logged into their Google account).

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May 12, 2011

The Problem

The other day I was looking for a way to make a websites phone number dial the phone number when viewing the site in a mobile browser.

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