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8 Reasons To NOT Become An Entrepreneur (And 9 Reasons Why You Should)

If you want to become an entrepreneur, your mind plays tricks on you. Can I compete against or successfully leverage the Facebooks, Googles and Amazons of the world? What happens if I can't make enough money? Am I even capable of this? There will also be unforeseen issues. Google slaps, Facebook … [Read more...]

How Web Designers and WordPress Developers Can Get Clients Online

I have worked with over 200 clients who've contacted me though this site since 2006. It always amazes me how WordPress developers especially don't use WordPress to get more work. Stick with me on this one. There's a lot of good stuff here about what works NOW, even though SEO, Google and online … [Read more...]

Google’s Penguin Update – What It Means For Web Designers

Google's search results are ranked by a combination of hundreds of different factors that are arranged into an algorithm which is being constantly changed and monitored. Recently, there has been a major update to the algorithm that has sent the SEO world into a spin and that update is named … [Read more...]

How to market yourself #7: How to write and design a WordPress page or post

Constantly updated quality content is the mainstay of any website or blog. I have already described how to set up a WordPress.org blog and what to write about when you have one. Here,s the "how to" for those new-ish to WordPress... There are three things to remember when you are writing: Make … [Read more...]

How to market yourself #6: How to get links to your website

There are two sides of a coin when considering how to market your site on the internet. Firstly, concentrate on the site itself: write regularly updated quality content and optimize the site for search engines. Secondly, by concentrating off the site: getting quality sites to link to … [Read more...]

How to market yourself #5: How to optimize your WordPress site for search engines

This is the fifth in the series where I explain how an individual or small or medium sized organization can get themselves noticed in the big bad world. Other installments explained how to set up a web site from scratch, how to install WordPress and what to write on your site. Before we … [Read more...]

American flag inside country map outline

A while ago I did an article explaining how to create a country,s flag inside its map outline and I used as an example the Australian map and flag. I've since had a lot of interest from Australians who wanted to use the image so I thought I'd do one for Americans as I get a lot of visitors from the … [Read more...]

Freelance graphic designer and SEO

The primary objective of this website is to attract clients to my design business. The two ways I try to achieve this are: Get other good websites to link to me with my desired keywords as the anchor text. For example, freelance graphic designer, designer in London, UK design services, are good … [Read more...]

More about SEO, Google and recriprocal links

This article is massively out-of-date and virtually everything said in it is now incorrect but it is useful to show how quickly things can change in this area! If you now type "freelance graphic designer and artworker in London" into Yahoo! I'm number one. In Google I'm hundred and fifty … [Read more...]