Rebecca Haden
Blog URL http://rebeccahaden.com/blog/
Located Fayetteville, Arkansas USA
Tags SEO, web content, web marketing, online marketing, writing, online strategy, small business
Practical advice about online marketing for businesspeople, in plain English. Sometimes even in fancy English.
Latest Blog Posts
- Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong,or the Adwords Experiment on Nov 19, 2009 in PPC
"Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" was a hit song in 1927, and the phrase was used thereafter to describe the logical fallacy known as the Bandwagon Fallacy: the idea that if a lot of people believe something, it must be true.I kind of felt thi...
- What's Lorem Ipsum? on Nov 18, 2009
Sometimes I write the content first and then the designer builds a design with that content. Sometimes the design comes first and I write content to fit that design. And sometimes both steps are being worked on at once.So it is that I occasionally ge...
- How Cool and Flashy Can Your Website Be? on Nov 17, 2009 in web design
Rosie and I were admiring a new website I was writing for. The design was particularly beautiful, for a corporate site, with an elegance of line and color that made me want to just gaze at it for a bit.Rosie wasn't so sure. It seemed to her that it...
- New Free Tool on Nov 13, 2009 in tools CMS
I've written before about content management systems, and specifically about whether you want them in your website or not. There are good points on both sides.One of the undoubted benefits to a CMS, however, is the ease with which you can add graphic...
- On PageRank on Nov 12, 2009 in PageRank
There's been a lot of talk about PageRank lately. Google has suggested that people are getting too het up over it, and there has been a flood of posts with titles like "Does PageRank Matter Any More?"My PageRank just increased, and I got a bit of a k...
- Getting the Rank Your Website Deserves on Nov 11, 2009 in SEO keywords
The apples shown here are divided into the #1 rankings ones and the #2 ranking ones. "Not as pretty, " those #2 apples, "but just as tasty."It's a reminder that we don't all get #1 rankings in the search engine results pages for everything. Sometimes...
- Building a Website with a Template on Nov 10, 2009 in web design web content
I've been building a website for someone with a template. I don't normally do this (it's a long story) but it gave me an excellent opportunity to learn some basic things to pass on to anyone who's thinking about using a template.Choosing the right te...
