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Every time I take a new website live I run it though two checklists. The first checklist is the pre-flight WordPress SEO checklist that I use to make sure that the new website has everything in place before Google begins Continue Reading
I am teaching a search engine optimization class that starts next week at the Edwards Campus of Colorado Mountain College. It runs three Tuesdays in a row from 9AM to 12:ooPM starting 2/25/14. Because the class is taught in Continue Reading
Walking Mountain Science Center had a problem: their website wouldn't render well in a mobile device. It was just too large! BlizzardPress helped them with an easy solution: a mobile website. (more…)
Google+ can give a great lift to a small business website. Most small businesses have not taken the time to optimize their Google+ listing(s) and aren't even aware of what opportunities they are missing. This workshop will teach the small Continue Reading
Getting your clients to review you in Google+ is hard at best. The Google+ Review Handout Generator makes this a lot easier. I recommend you go give it a try for your business. I am recommending it to all my Continue Reading
There has been lots of interesting data shared in the last year about whether or not Google+ shares or Facebook shares help you rank higher. Conventional SEO wisdom has been that, yes, they do indeed help. Two studies have driven Continue Reading
BlizzardPress released a new website for the Colorado Basin Implementation Plan. The ColoradoBIP is a regional stakeholder of the larger Colorado Water Plan effort and its "basin roundtables." The goal of the website is to educate the constituents within the Continue Reading
Colorado Mountain College in Edwards is offering an SEO class to the Vail Valley. The class starts on 2/25/2014 and runs three weeks until 3/11/14. This is Tuesdays from 9:00 to 12:00 for a total of 9 hours of instruction Continue Reading
Have you noticed all the "Which Word Do You See First" Eye tests?? They are an epidemic on Facebook and Twitter. They generate likes, comments and totally go viral. For all of you WordPress Geeks out there, here is a Continue Reading
This post should be titled: How I Doubled My Website Speed by Switching to Managed WordPress Hosting at FlyWheel. Last week I put the same website at two hosts: a huge and cheap webhost and a WordPress specialist called Flywheel. Continue Reading
Have you struggled getting your Google Places+ account sorted out? Maybe you have two accounts and need to combine them but don't want to lose reviews? Maybe there is an old account (or three) still in Google and you want Continue Reading
Do you live in the Vail Valley and want to learn more about how to design a website with WordPress? Colorado Mountain College (Edwards, CO campus) is offering a WordPress class in February that will teach you how to setup Continue Reading