flickr is a free image hosting website. It is a great way for people to upload and share albums of digital photos with their family and friends, like a virtual scrapbook. From a business standpoint, it can be a powerful tool. John and I use flickr as an informal, online portfolio of our past logo [...]
Introduction Recently I ran across an item through my professional network called a viral map. This led me to look into what exactly this was and if it was worth pursuing for our blogging efforts. This article will define a viral map, as well as the concept of viral marketing, as well as provide a [...]
Digg is a social networking website that allows users to post content (blog articles, etc). Once a story has been posted, it can be voted on by the community of readers. Anyone can submit a story to Digg (even your readers, if you haven’t done so already). That being said, most bloggers will submit their [...]
Introduction I was thinking lately about the importance of perception and the relation of perception to reality. According to Wikipedia, perception is “the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory of information.” Reality on the other hand is “the state of things as they actually exist.” At first glance, reality appears to be what [...]
Introduction Late last year I posted an article entitled “How To Increase Web Traffic”. Since starting CCBbuzz on December 1, 2008 we have experienced explosive growth. As a result we are documenting our progress and providing you with not only our results, but how we are achieving said results. Since traffic = money, we imagine [...]
In a recent article on Canonical Redirects, I mentioned a company called Hubspot that offers a free Website Grader. It’s pretty simple, and extremely addicting. You enter your domain name, any competitor’s sites that you want to be compared to, and your email address… 30 seconds later you have a custom report, complete with the [...]
In my recent quest to boost the optimization of CCBbuzz, I have run across lots of info that, while it makes sense, I never would have thought of on my own. Here is one such tip; Register your website’s primary domain for 10 years or longer. In the past, I have been of the mindset [...]
Many years ago, a coworker (yes, I used to be employed by someone other than myself!) shared with me her view on why grocery shopping is so inefficient. Here is what typically happens; 1. You put a grocery item in your shopping cart 2. Take the item from the cart and put it on the [...]
1. Add a page title. WordPress makes this easy, go to Settings > General (on the left side nav column). As you can see in the image below, the first two options on the page are for Blog Title and Tagline. Fill in both. The title shows at the top of every web-browser page (see [...]
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