There has always been a bit of heat about whether leaving footprints behind can hurt your efforts to build and market a website. Some people like myself, go out of the way to remove them, and others swear its just a case of being paranoid or wearing a tin-foil hat (I have one of those!) and is a waste of time.
So the question is… Can a Plugin leave a trail that may hurt you? (I can’t resist)

My guess is that most people fall somewhere in the middle of the road… …

Quick, Simple and Easy 2-Day Contest to win one of the websites we built with the Keywords to Websites plugin. There are a few requirements, so please make sure you read this entire post…
The Clean Air Guide was built earlier this month as one of the sites we used to test our use of the site builder plugin. It’s a very basic site that’s ready for additional natural article marketing or someone who may want to drive PPC at it, whichever you prefer. I have a sum total of about …

Just because I decided to start using Bing versus Google for all my web searching doesn’t mean I don’t revisit to see whats going on and compare results with those returned at Bing. At some point over the weekend, I noticed that brands seemed to be popping into the result pages much more than before when I was searching for things related to my sites… guess what, Google made another change to reinforce brands!
In the past, when you searched for an Apple ipod or an HP Printer,  you had a …

For the third day in a row, I have been contacted about someone waking up and finding that their entire WordPress powered website had dropped all the pages and content! Today, it also happened to one of my own sites!
Here is what you find:

You Visit your Website
The Homepage or ANY Page is Blank, or delivering a 404, not found error.

Rule #1 – Don’t Panic….
I don’t know WHY this happening at this point, but every site I have spotted it on is using “page” for the homepage, versus the most recent posts like …

Bing and Yahoo, the two headed spear that hopes to bite into the market share of Google, will be sharing natural search results by the end of the week! This is not real news to people searching the web as it will pretty much be a seamless transition. To you and I, Webmasters, and website owners… it might just be a big deal!
Later this week, we will begin transitioning the back-end technology for Yahoo! Search in the U.S. and Canada (English) over to the Microsoft platform, and will post an …

Since the beginning of the month, several of our sites that deal with consumable and gift type products have started seeing a large upswing in both traffic and sales revenue! :-) If July is traditionally the slowest month of the year for commerce, August is definitely the kick start to the shopping season!
This is the right time to gear up for the next 4 months of the year, which will account for more than 75% of revenue for the entire year for many of the large chains!
Lets take a look…

August Back …

Many of you who have known me for several years, know that I come from a background of custom and personalized web development with a background in SEO. I have been a silent reader of Aaron Wall at SEOBook for several years, I own the SEOBook myself, and when I saw him post an interview of Jon Glick of Become.com today, I ran over to read it!
I suggest ANYONE who is interested in SEO, take a trip over and read the Jon Glick Interview as well. Get a beverage, give yourself …

Today… after 8-9 years of a mutually beneficial, and not always friendly relationship… I have separated myself from using Google as my default search engine, and while the new engine may not be perfect, I have found it to be better, and easier to use, more often. I may choose to switch back one day… but for now, my search business has moved elsewhere.
I Quit Using Google Search for Now!
Why, you ask? The results since the Mayday and Caffeine update…  well, the search results kinda suck!

It takes 2-3 searches to find …

Shoemoney had a post up yesterday about Shawn Hogan, and what is likely to be a very public look into the eBay Partner Network. Shawn, facing 20+ year in a Fed prison and millions of $$ in fines had originally written this on his own site, DigitalPoint, and if any of you wonder why the ePN system has probably changed so much over the last few years… its worth every minute of reading… twice!
Snip:
When I asked them why they would knowingly allow affiliates to violate their terms of service, they …

I was reading a list of top WordPress plugins on another site and saw several that I use very often, but rarely mention because of the confusion they often raise. Believe me, I know how confusing it can be to see long lists of top WordPress plugins, and not know for sure which ones you might want to use on your sites, why they are important… and in some cases, why they are just a waste of time and resources!
In this article, I want to talk about a Kick-Ass Plugin to help …