What is Delicious? Social Bookmarking. Ok, but what does that REALLY mean? I’ve done my research, and I finally understand. Delicious allows you to bookmark your favorite websites to your online Delicious account. It is just like the ‘Bookmarks’ tab on your own private computer, but it’s online. For years now, I’ve been saving my [...]

Today was my first real introduction to StumbleUpon.  I knew the CCBbuzz blog was listed on StumbleUpon because I had checked it before, here.  However, I hadn’t, until today, taken the time to understand how StumbleUpon works. In this blog, I’m going to give you a brief explanation of StumbleUpon, as well as a quick [...]

It amazes me every day how many helpful tools are available to webmasters. Google Alerts seems like it should have been obvious, since CCB already uses Google for Analytics, Adsense, Feedburner, and many other applications, however, somehow Alerts slipped by me. It was Tim, at cofebuz, who pointed it out to John and me (thanks [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Many thanks to Tim, at cofebuz.com for emailing to let us know our RSS feed didn’t work. This prompted me to delve further into Feedburner and take care of some details I’d been pushing off, as well as update my Feedburner account for the Google switch, which will take place in Feb 2009.  An RSS [...]