Web Development

Never Ever Ever Dev Test a Site w/o Blocking Spiders »
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Justin Seibert in DOM News, Search Engines, Web Development | 1 Comment

I’m not a big believer in the words “never” or “always,” but am going to use it here like the Yeti in Monsters, Inc. “Rule #1 out here: Always…No, never go out in a blizzard.”

Since we’re now starting to build out our new WordPress site on a test server, we wanted to give you our Rule #1 out here.  Never put up a test (or dev) site without blocking it off from the search engines.  I know what you’re thinking – how would anyone ever find it – we’re not sending out an email to our newsletter list with the url.

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$65 billion to be shifted to Web, but do you have your login details handy? »
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Paul Woodhouse in Online Marketing, SEO, Web Development | 2 Comments

Throughout the annals of time, not only have we fought for what we thought was rightfully ours, but we’ve paraded around handbags to obtain the rights to what we’d like to be ours.

I’ll never forget my mate (who shall be shortly visiting) telling me about his Dad taping world championship darts off the television. That wouldn’t be a tale in and of itself were it not for the fact that this was pre-video recorder days and he’d done it via audio cassette attaching a mic to the t.v.’s speaker.

On returning from the pub he’d locked himself in the living room with just the dull thud of the darts and scoring announcements crackling from a tape masquerading as action. Unfortunately, it was but a C-30 tape, so he missed the result.
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ALT – Not Knowing these 3 Letters could Cost You $6 Million »
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Justin Seibert in E-commerce, Government Marketing, Internet, SEO, Web Development | 6 Comments

I’m a frugal person.  I used to say cheap, but I know a business owner who reuses his own dental floss – now that’s cheap and probably unsanitary.  So when I see a company pay a $6 million settlement for not knowing – or caring – about the most basic of search engine optimization (SEO) functions, I choke on my Cap’n Crunch.

The target company who raised the ire of the plaintiff in this case?

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Health & Safety in the Webspace »
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by Paul Woodhouse in Web Development | 1 Comment

On my (now) regular morning flounce into work I adroitly negotiate my way past all manner of obstacles – the main street traffic, the weather-worn back alley prophylactic, and the clouds of pre-work smokers. But, this morning I had to make my way round a couple of roofers attending to their business on a building next to Subway on Market St.

Having been on a site or two in my time I’m well aware of certain health and safety measures. The most basic being, when working above the general public you have to cordon off an area so they aren’t walking under ladders or, to be more precise, walking into them.

Invariably this means wrapping yellow tape marked ‘caution’ round the base of your ladders, the nearest lamp post and a handy fire hydrant.
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On Word-of-Mouth, Online Recruiting & Measuring Web Site Stats »
Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Justin Seibert in Business Blogging, DOM News, Local News, Online Marketing, Web Development | 5 Comments

Rarely do I talk about our clients and their campaigns in this space. That silence is purposeful for a lot of reasons, chief of which is that often I’m not allowed to speak about their campaigns. Not so today. We launched a new site job recruiting site for the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and Upper Ohio Valley Tuesday and there are 2 powerful points you can take away from this post, which you can use to improve your marketing today.

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