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Should You Update Online Business Profiles?

Online business profile services (directories) such as Google Places, Bing Local and Yahoo Local, among many more, are a great, free services that can bring you new customers, more traffic, and more interactivity with your clients. A properly optimized and complete profile gives your enterprise a better chance of being found in map and directory searches, lets those searchers know what you’re about, and gives them an extra level of confidence when they actually want to visit your establishment.

Lets take a closer look at some additional services like this and what they allow you to add to your profiles. Read the rest of this entry »

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Create Sitemaps and use a Sitemap Index

Sitemap

Sitemaps are often overlooked when creating a website, largely because most are unaware of the benefits and process. Having a properly formatted sitemap index and sitemap files that are also submitted to Google WebmasterTools will result in increased indexed pages, which means Google (and other search engines) have greater visibility of your website that they may not have otherwise. For new websites, it also helps your pages get indexed quicker, and with greater coverage. Lets look at an example: Read the rest of this entry »

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Make Joomla Article Titles H1 and H2 Tags for SEO

The article titles on your Joomla website are probably not optimized to their full potential. More specifically, they aren’t H1 tags on the article pages and H2 tags on the category, section, and home pages. They also don’t have title attributes in the href links on the category, section and home pages. These header tags and href title attributes help search engines like Google and Bing identify the topic of your page or link and are considered helpful on-site SEO must-haves.


Note: This article is in regards to Joomla 1.5. I’m sure 1.6 and 1.7 are at least slightly different.
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CSS3 Text Shadows

Text Shadow… pretty!

OK, that was a little extreme. But seriously, text shadow can be sexy, and it’s really easy. So stop using images for text in your banners and call-to-actions!

The CSS3 text-shadow property shouldn’t be overused, but it allows web designers and developers an excellent alternative to using text, with shadows, as images in banners, calls-to-action, buttons, etc. Combine text-shadow with box-shadow and gradient, and your buttons can be standardized and you won’t have to touch Photoshop to build them! Read the rest of this entry »

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Google Webmaster Tools Site Performance

Lets take a few minutes and discuss what the Site Performance section of Google Webmaster Tools is all about and whether or not we should be putting any stock into its data. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jess – Studio Shoot

I really enjoyed this shoot. Jess, my model, was spectacular and down for whatever. There’s more to this set, but I haven’t decided whether or not i’ll be posting them up.

More coming from Jess in the future, for sure. Read the rest of this entry »

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Downtown Photoshoot – Little Baghdad

After at least two failed attempts at making a photoshoot happen near the Downtown Dallas intersection of Cockrell & Alma, also known as “Little Baghdad,” I was finally able to pull it off, with the help of a fantastic model. Read the rest of this entry »

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DFW Supras ’09 May Meet

This three-day car meet, sponsored by the DFWSupras club, promised to leave me smelling like race gas and with some shots of cute car-girls and fast machines… of course I’m in!

I got what I considered some good shots, and a lot of decent action photos as well, along with some really great shots of one of the models, Mel.

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LSJC Jeep Club Rally @ BMRA

I got the chance to cruise out to the BMRA offroading rec area with the local LSJC Jeep Club and ended up having a great time.

Running up and down large hills and rocky trails all day is certainly a workout, but to get shots of jeep owners almost rolling their vehicles down mountains is always worth it!

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Halford Park & Lake Ray Hubbard Outing

A little trip I took out and about a while back – got some pretty great shots, I think! Check them out! Read the rest of this entry »

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