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I understand the desire to win the search for "Wooden Toys". People who search that term know what they want and will be easier to convert into sales. It will also be a less competitive search phrase and easier to win for a business owner doing it himself. Links are great for building page...

None of the DMOZ submissions I have made in the past seven years have proved worthwhile. Even when I did get listed, I couldn't see a difference from Google. When it comes to time-cost effectiveness, DMOZ just hasn't been a good way to go for me. It's off my list.

I see that you now come up as number 5 when I search for your company name. Unfortunately, if I search for "The BAE Group modeling," or "The BAE Group Modeling Agency," you disappear from the Google results. That's no good if you want natural search traffic. It's time to invest in some search...

Yep, Illustrator is for vector art and Photoshop is better at raster art, although each can be used the other way. I find Photoshop much more intuitive, so I use Photoshop over Illustrator every chance I get. Even when vector art is required, depending on the project, I prefer to design in...

Is there such a thing as Pingback spam? I started my first WordPress blog recently. I added a CAPTCHA because I was getting 7 spam posts per day after the blog reached only 12 posts! Ofcourse pingback messages from WordPress bypass the Captcha. When I follow the links in pingback messages...

How to display your URL in print I vote for PixelPusher's idea with one possible exception. When running multiple words together in one domain name, capitalizing the first letter of each word improves speed of word recognition. If it doesn't mess up the design, capitalize the first letter of...

People expect a certain amount of dressing up in a business. For the same reasons that you wouldn't put a smelly slob at the front desk, you want to make sure the graphic impression made by your website portrays your business in the correct fashion. However, I do sometimes argue that there...

I think logo design contests can be a good option for businesses looking to save a buck. The handful of them that I followed produced some very attractive logos. Of course, you get what you pay for. Problems that may arise with some of these logo contests: Overly trendy logos that might as...

A good specific answer to this might depend on the artist's style. But have you looked at California FB Italics?

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This is a really great site. One of the best things you can do now is put some good info on the about us page. Everything else is great. I'm not sure what is going on with that order form. Why do users have to look up their own tax rate? Merchants are only required to collect sales tax in...

The Hayes Concrete banner across the top looks good to me. Only web designers know what looks free. To everyone else, all that matters is does it look good enough to inspire an inquiry or purchase. Right now, I would say "pretty much yes" and "this site is doing you more good than not having...

Shopping Carts I like CityMax.com for online stores. For the basic fee of $20 per month they give you a ton of options including a nice shopping cart, password protected pages, polls, etc. CityMax is actually an entire website building and hosting service. Their shopping cart automatically...

A recent review of Google's Webmaster Guidelines has given me pause. Now I have two questions. I was under the impression that Google will recognize and use the Alt text of an image for indexing if the image is linked. Is that correct? Will Google's crawlers follow linked images?

Dreamweaver has a function that identifies orphaned pages.

All of my inbound links are text, and Google still does not return the majority of them. So not seeing them in your results does not in and of itself indicate that the linked image is the problem. I would love to see you publish a study on this. Count your inbound links now with various...

Take the words "kick ***" off of your website. No sense in potentially offending a business person who is easily offended. Make thumbnails of the sites in your portfolio in addition to the text links. I'm guessing that you made your header so plain to let the flashing websites stand...