Small Business Web development

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

John Ellis — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:41:06 +0000

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 [...]

Small Business Web Development & SEO | What is SEO?

John Ellis — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:49:47 +0000

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 [...]

Social Media Brand Management | A Lesson from Tech Crunch

John Ellis — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:57:53 +0000

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 [...]

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

John Ellis — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:13:26 +0000

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 [...]

Web Designers and Small Business SEO – The Truth

John Ellis — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:28:31 +0000

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 [...]

PID and PCC Team Up to Provide SEO Classes

John Ellis — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:03:41 +0000

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 [...]

Post 404′s Errors After WordPress 3.1.1 Update

John Ellis — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:33:27 +0000

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 [...]

Free SPBA Talks: Co-op Marketing with South Portland Business Association

katrina — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:09:37 +0000

Want to learn how you can grow your business online? Portland Internet Design is offering free web seminars to members of the South Portland Business Association. During these free talks, we’ll show you how the new SPBA website can help increase your circle of influence and increase your sales with co-op marketing. Our next two [...]

Free Web Seminar: Marketing Your Business Online | March 2011

John Ellis — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:50:45 +0000

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 [...]

Shameless Bragging about Two Fantastic Web Hosting and Project Management Vendors

me — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:29:33 +0000

Many things keep our sites and projects running smoothly but these two vendors are the engine and wheels of our high performance PID racecar. Kym and Sergey are Romanians who saved us from another foray into an “affordable” project management system. If anyone at PID has a suggestion about how to improve the system, they [...]