Twitter for Business: How to Create Custom Twitter Alerts

February 15, 2011
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With an estimated 50 million tweets per day shared across the Twitter-sphere there’s much to talk about and plenty of opportunity to engage with people! A great way to utilize Twitter for business is to create custom alerts and track keywords in the public Twitter stream. Setting up a custom Twitter alert is an easy way for [...]

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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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Search Engine Marketing comes knocking on our door

February 3, 2011
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January 20th marked the last “official” day in our Beaverton office. In the last few months we have been there less and less – our working hub is around the Willamette River and our work is in the clouds so it was an easy decision to let go of the commute. 5 days later, we [...]

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How to Find and Replace Class Attributes Using jQuery

January 31, 2011
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This one is going to be quick and clean. Sometimes jQuery makes things so easy it brings tears of joy to my nerdy, nerdy eyes. Are you using a plugin or script which applies a class name automatically to a certain HTML element, but you really wish it would have named it something else? Well, [...]

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Tips for Writing Compelling Meta Description

January 26, 2011
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Meta Descriptions One of the best devices in the SEO toolbox is writing compelling meta description. Meta descriptions are displayed as preview snippets when users type in a search query as shown here for the keyword phrase search engine optimization: These short snippets, ideally between 150 – 160 characters, allow site owners to advertise their [...]

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Turn Old Content into Fresh News

January 14, 2011
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In the era of new media publishing, it’s not uncommon to go back to older blog posts to update them with new information and fresh news; adding linkbait, such as a groovy how-to article or running a contest, will also help boost your page rank. While old world thinking would have us believe that what’s [...]

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PID is offering a $100 spiff! *

January 12, 2011
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Do you know someone who needs an awesome, functional, user-friendly website that the search engines LOVE? Send them our way! If they sign up for any of our Web Development Packages, we’ll send you $100 CASH. Here is all you do: Tell your friends about Portland Internet Design Send us an email (cash@pdxids.com) with the [...]

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Five Practical Tips for Improving AdWords Quality Score

January 12, 2011
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Dramatic drops in keyword quality score recently caused a flurry of paid advertising angst. Google was quick to claim it as a known issue within the AdWords Help forum stating, “This issue was limited to the reporting of Quality Score, and the fix should be live  for all within the next 24 hours. For those keywords [...]

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3 Tips For Mean, Clean CSS Code

January 6, 2011
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So, you’ve learned the basics of CSS coding, you know how to reference tags and you even have a clue about what that whole “Cascade” part of the Cascading Style Sheet is all about. You’re ready to use your new skills to design or customize your awesome website. But how do you keep things organized [...]

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The New Font-Face of Web Typography

October 14, 2010
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This is probably the most exciting development in, well, development since I started designing websites! I have always been frustrated with the limited options for typography on the web, and I do believe that @font-face is the best solution out there. When I set out to learn about it, I was only looking into the [...]

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