Web Development

Search Engine Optimization for Photographers – How to control the Robots

by Geoffrey September 20, 2011 Web Development

In my last article, The Search Engine Process, I talked about how search engines see your website, and how they base your pages rank based on keywords, content, URL and meta descriptions. In this article I am going to talk about how you can control what content get’s indexed and the methods that are practiced [...]

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Search Engine Optimization For Photographers -The Search Engine Process

by Geoffrey September 19, 2011 Web Development

When I say SEO, what do you immediately think? Some may answer and say isn’t he that guy from the Matrix Movies, others may reply and name it correctly but they may not understand its meaning. Search Engine Optimization or SEO for short is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a [...]

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Search Engine Optimization For Photographers – Introduction

by Geoffrey September 19, 2011 Web Development

Currently I have been in the internet industry for almost nine years and only recently have decided to make a push to turn my hobby of photography into a semi-professional career. With that I started to sign up for online forums and Facebook Groups related to the niche market that I was looking to break [...]

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Two reasons to get your business on the internet

by Geoffrey August 3, 2011 Web Development

Great, just what you want to read. Another article screaming about the importance of putting your business on the internet. It’s not like you haven’t read this a dozen times before and balked and rolled your eyes at it. However, why are you reading another article about it and not acting on it? Are you [...]

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How to use SQLite to manage your databases in Ubuntu

by Geoffrey June 10, 2011 Web Development

I was confronted by my boss today with the question. How do you navigate a database using a command line shell. So quickly I fired back and said, “I have no idea”. Encouraging I know, you’re reading an article about SQLite in Ubuntu and how to manage a database, and the author has no clue [...]

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The Power of the 404 Page

by Geoffrey May 10, 2011 Web Development

With Spring slowly pecking away at the remains of Winter across the Horicon Marsh, I started to notice a trend on my website stats. I was starting to get more referrals from a website called EnjoyHoriconMarsh.com to my Horicon Marsh Photography. At first I was happy to see new and repeat visitors coming from that [...]

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QR Code Encoders and Decoders

by Geoffrey May 3, 2011 Web Development

Here is a great list of QR Code Encoders and Decoders that I have come across. QRStuff.com – Custom QR Code Generator         At QRStuff.com you can not only generate a QR Code for your site but you can Encode several other items such as plain text, email messages as well as [...]

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Uses for QR Codes

by Geoffrey March 4, 2011 Web Development

What is a QR Code you ask? A QR Code or a Quick Response Code is a two-dimensional code similar to a bar code, however instead of line density it uses black and white blocks to encode its data. QR codes are only readable by QR barcode readers which are commonly  found on most smart [...]

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Stalk yourself using Google Alerts

by Geoffrey February 17, 2011 Web Development

I was recently reading through the Huffington Post complete guide to Blogging when they wrote a brief blurb about a way to track what people are saying about you on the internet. This handy tool they talked about was called Google Alerts. Google Alerts is very quick and easy to setup, although it does required [...]

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Website Splash Pages from a developers viewpoint

by Geoffrey February 16, 2011 Web Development

So you want to create a splash page for your website, and you are using it to control where your visitors go, but what is a splash page telling your visitors that you don’t know? First off splash pages where a great way to introduce your website by welcoming them to your site but times [...]

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