A useful flowchart got into my Twitter feed recently. You are supposed to go through it before you call a meeting, to see if you actually need to call a meeting. Which is a great idea, but doesnāt really help if you arenāt the one calling the meeting. There are ways to have meetings be […]
Learning to Code 1: Introductory Yak Shaving
Thereās a lot of talk about how you need to learn to code. Youād have more job security, make more money, and be able to change the world with your ideas, or at least be slightly more prepared for when the robots take over. So you find an introductory programing course, free, paid, online, wherever. […]
What Iāve Learned About Small Business Websites
With a website revamp in place, I thought it would be fun, if potentially embarrassing, to look at what I did differently between doing my businesses first website, and this one. Knowing That āDoneā Is Better Than Perfect Like spiritual mantras or Buddhist Koans, you can read and repeat that phrase a lot, but it […]
SEO Isn’t Dead: It Went Through a Rough Divorce with Keyword Density and Is Now Living in Inbound’s Basement
People Havenāt Thought a Living Thing Was Dead This Much Since Kurt Russell Escaped From New York to a Post-Disco John Carpenter Sound Track (If you aren’t familiar with the film Escape from New York, first, shame on you, and second, these jokes won’t make sense. Go watch it, or just accept that everyone in […]
Google Webmaster Tools Setup and Analytics Integration
Webmaster Tools is a phenomenally useful and free diagnostic suite that no website should be without. In addition to telling you a lot about your website, itās the only shot you have at getting information about how Google sees your website. It integrates easily with Google Analytics, which is also free and incredibly useful. Iāve […]
First Steps in Google Analytics Configuration
The previous post covered how to create a Google Analytics account, but there are several things we should do to configure the account before we even log out, or add the tracking code to our site. Because we made a Google account separate from any personal or other business accounts to create the Analytics account, […]