John Ellis

Small Business Web Development & SEO | What is SEO… Part II

August 17, 2011
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This is the second post in a series about what SEO really is. Read the first post here. The purpose… to arm small business owners with an understanding of SEO, AND.. ask the right questions when looking to hire a developer or designer to build your website. In the last post, we covered what SEO [...]

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Small Business Web Development & SEO | What is SEO?

August 4, 2011
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This is the first in a 10 part series on Small Business Web Development. Read the summary post here. I originally planned on writing one post explaining what SEO was. I realized as I started that SEO can’t be explained well in a single post. At least not well enough for you to ask the [...]

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Social Media Brand Management | A Lesson from Tech Crunch

July 29, 2011
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A few weeks ago, Tech Crunch (TC), one of the industry sites I follow, launched a website redesign. Usually, this kind of thing is good press. When a company spends a lot of time and effort on a new look, they like to talk about it. Unfortunately for Tech Crunch, the redesign did not go [...]

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Small Business Web Development & SEO | 10 Questions to Ask before Hiring Anyone

July 26, 2011

 I was contacted a few months ago by a potential client about taking over their Web Development and Search Engine Marketing Campaign. The client had hired some friends from college to build them a website and then paid a pretty decent amount each month for what was billed as, “SEO services and CMS fees”. Over [...]

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Web Designers and Small Business SEO – The Truth

July 6, 2011
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I recently posted a social media blurb about how most designers and developers out there don’t use SEO basics when building sites. I got a response from one company saying, “We do SEO!”… Fine, I said… let’s see what SEO they’ve done for their own site. This is a great way to find out if [...]

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PID and PCC Team Up to Provide SEO Classes

June 29, 2011
No Brainer SEO Classes at Portland Community College - Brought to you by Portland Internet Design

Portland Internet Design and Portland Community College, have teamed up to create a series of Search Engine Optimization Training classes. Whoot! Oh what fun we will have. Yea, there are a lot of classes out there. Unfortunately, most of them do not provide a solid foundation for understanding how the web works and why SEO [...]

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Post 404′s Errors After WordPress 3.1.1 Update

April 26, 2011

I’ve seen a lot of post online about how to fix the post 404′s permalink issues after upgrading to WordPress 3.1.1. Many of them suggest doing some crazy things with your .htaccess file and resetting your permalinks. These fixes did not work for me. Finally I found a small blurb about a plugin conflict, which [...]

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Free Web Seminar: Marketing Your Business Online | March 2011

March 21, 2011
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Looking to grow your business online? Portland Internet Design offers free web seminars to provide the latest tips, tricks and best practices in search engine marketing. Learn how you can increase your circle of influence online and expand your business opportunities. Register now for one of our upcoming events below. We look forward to meeting [...]

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Web development options for small business owners

February 5, 2011
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What are the best web development options for small business owners? I recently answered this question on quora.com. Here is the expanded version. First and most important: SEO and Keyword research. Do not hire anyone who does not understand (search engine optimization (SEO), and and does not start the SEO with keyword research. Websites in [...]

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Website Positioning | Putting All the SEO Pieces Together

September 26, 2009
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This post is the sixth and final post in a multi-part series about website positioning. Putting it all together Keyword Market Research: Define your market and find out what words and phrases people are using to search for your business on the web. Search Engine Optimization: Place the keywords found in our market research strategically [...]

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