by Cecily Crout | Jan 26, 2011 | Web Sites
It is all too easy to put a website online, get caught up in the day to day running of the website, and forget about maintenance. Unfortunately, when running a self-hosted website, your maintenance job never really ends. If you ignore software updates and other...
by Cecily Crout | Oct 14, 2010 | Local Search
Internet Marketing, SEO, & Local Search Workshop – Thursday October 21st, 2010 Local search expert David Mihm and GetListed.org are bringing their “Local University” to Denver next week, Thursday October 21st. A natural extension of the hands on...
by Cecily Crout | Jun 11, 2010 | Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Web Design, Web Development, Website Usability
It seems like these days any Tom, Dick or Harriet can design a website, however all websites are not created equal. Just because it looks lovely it doesn’t mean it’s going to help you meet your business goals. Your website has to be found, used and...
by Cecily Crout | Mar 4, 2010 | Website Usability
During the web development process, it is sometimes easy to lose sight of the ultimate goals of usability: conversions, and happy visitors. Developers, designers, and clients can all be sidetracked by minor features, small design changes, and general project hiccups;...
by Cecily Crout | Jan 26, 2010 | Local Search
About a month ago we received a letter from Google congratulating us on the number of times Google users found our business listing between July 1 and September 30, 2009. They said ‘Because you’re so popular, we’re enclosing a window decal that shows...
by Cecily Crout | Dec 18, 2009 | Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Web Development, Web Sites, Website Usability
A website is a collection of web pages, documents and multi-media files that are hosted (stored) on a server (computer) on the Internet. The server can be in your own town, in another part of the country or in another part of the world. All of the public Internet...
by Cecily Crout | Dec 16, 2009 | Web Sites
Many people think that the? Web and the Internet are the same, but they are not. The Internet is the foundation the Web is built upon. The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers. These interconnected computers are able to share data (information),...
by Cecily Crout | Dec 10, 2009 | Web Development
In today’s world of readily available, fully-featured, open source content management systems, it can be argued that every website should be built using a CMS (content management system). Many of our counterparts in the web development industry use Drupal,...
by Cecily Crout | Dec 7, 2009 | Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Social Search
Getting Started Sign-up for a Twitter account by clicking the ?Sign Up Now? button on the www.twitter.com home page. You?ll need to give them your full name, a username (that will become your Twitter name), your password and an email address. In your account settings,...
by Cecily Crout | Oct 23, 2009 | SEO
We’re excited to share a search engine ranking tool we’ve recently created and have just added to CCSEO.com. This tool uses the search APIs from Google, Bing, and Yahoo to find the rank of a specified domain URL (website addresses) in the search results...