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...]
Web Design Business Owner, Matt Shuey
Download this podcast The latest in my oh-so remarkable series of interviews with design business owners is a great one. OK, I know I keep saying that but this one is great, believe me. http://youtu.be/1H6N22DHVyE The fantastic thing about this interview was that I didn't … [Read more...]
SEO For A Small Web Design Business
Web design business owners may be required to do many things. Selling, accounting, marketing ... yes. Designing? Sometimes. But, master the dark arts of SEO? Surely not! You should, of course, be concentrating on providing the best services. That's a "given." But there is a reliable way of … [Read more...]
How To Build A Website For A Client
I have been designing and developing websites for my graphic design clients for over 7 years. It's not always been easy and every client is different. But I have learned some "best practices" which I would like to share here. Anyone can create a website... It's never been easier to create a … [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 Get Your Business To The Top Of Google
How do you get your website in front of as many eyeballs as possible? How do you expose your products and services to the world? The answer is, of course, to get to the top of the Google search results. Keyword research and competitor analysis Don't stop reading just because it's a boring … [Read more...]
15 essential tasks to complete after installing WordPress
WordPress is a blog publishing platform that can be used to run many different types of website. Every time I install WordPress I run through the same geeky routine to ensure that it is well-functioning and easily discovered. So, aside from the theme (the way the website looks) and the content … [Read more...]
My 5 biggest blogging mistakes
I first set up WordPress on my website 4 years ago. Since then it has been a long journey trying to post once a week whilst learning all I can about web publishing. Things haven't always gone smoothly. So, for the record, here are some of my greatest gaffes: 1. Not creating the whole … [Read more...]
My idiot’s guide to keyword research
So what is keyword research? "Keyword research is a practice used by Search Engine Optimization professionals to find and research actual search terms people enter into search engines when conducting a search". Good old Wikipedia! But, I used to think, what has that got to do with me? I'm a … [Read more...]
10 things I wish I had known about web designing 10 years ago
10 years ago I had a big problem. I was a print designer but I loved the web and desperately wanted to work with it. I wanted a software package that would let me mess around with drag-and-drop functionality and when I was ready I could click "GO" and miraculously produce perfect code. I was … [Read more...]
Download my 2 free e-books and 2 free MP3s on running an online business & getting clients
Plus a list of my 12 favorite resources for online business
