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Clarify Your Website Content In Search Engines with URL Normalization
Posted in Online Marketing, Wordpress, Zing Blog on February 27th, 2010 by Rusty

In this post, we will learn more about the aspect of a search engine optimization technique, called URL Canonicalization or URL Normalization. We will see why it is important and why being knowledgeable about it will reduce duplicate content issues.

Do you have the right content on the web, but…

Remember Anything 30 Minutes Per Day
Posted in Personal Development, Zing Blog on February 25th, 2010 by Rusty

We all have our own perception of time. We count hours but discount how they are spread out. It’s called binge learning and you’ll probably forget everything.

If your like me, there are times when you get excited about learning something new that you spend a day or two non-stop…

Ways to reduce Bounce Rate on your Website
Posted in Online Marketing, Zing Blog on February 11th, 2010 by Rusty

When you start to follow your website analytics you start to notice a percent of people identified as Bounce Rate. Bounce rate (sometimes confused with exit rate) is a term used in web site traffic analysis. It essentially represents the percentage of initial visitors to a site who “bounce” away…

10 Essential WordPress SEO Plugins
Posted in Wordpress, Zing Blog on January 19th, 2010 by Rusty

When it comes to web design management and blogging systems, WordPress wins my heart. In my last WordPress SEO post I noted the 12 Best SEO Plugins. Now I want to identify the 10 essential plugins you can’t be without if your running a WordPress Blog. We have done ton’s…

5 Successful Link Building Techniques
Posted in Social Networking, Zing Blog on December 28th, 2009 by Rusty

One of the most difficult, or rather tedious jobs when running a website is getting reciprocal links. It really matters to search engines…a lot. Link building is getting your website address, be it any link from your site, placed on a remote website. Now there are probably several more ways…

Are you using Social Media effectively?
Posted in Social Networking, Zing Blog on December 9th, 2009 by Rusty

As if this hasn’t already been talked about by hundreds of people… Social Media is a successful way to market your business. In this post I will discuss several ways to effectively use social media to make it successful for your business.

Being in the web design industry almost every…

A new way to display sitemaps using SlickMap CSS
Posted in Web Design & Development, Zing Blog on December 3rd, 2009 by Rusty

I am always inspired with new ways to display website content. And today I found an interesting and creative way to display sitemaps created by Matt Everson of Astuteo. I am talking about those lovely hierarchical pages of links we mostly find at the footer of our websites. A sitemap…

Have An Efficient Plan For The Holidays
Posted in Personal Development, Zing Blog on November 26th, 2009 by Rusty

Realizing the holidays are on my back, it made me think how efficient we can be to make our seasonal holidays better. I did some research and found a few things we can do to improve holiday efficiency.

So let’s begin…

The Turkey Dinner Calculator – Folks, do not eat

Customizing Facebook using MyFanSite Tutorial
Posted in Graphic Design, Web Design & Development, Zing Blog on November 22nd, 2009 by Rusty

Customizing Facebook has always been a drag because of the unified styles they insist on holding. Limited customization is however available. This is why we created My Fan Site application for Facebook. It’s provides an easy interface for web designers to customize a tab on their profile or fan page and give it a little more edge.

5 Tips to Enhancing Your Intelligence
Posted in Personal Development on November 10th, 2009 by Rusty

Technology is degrading our intelligence. By this I mean technology is taking away from our learning capabilities. But I am learning so much with technology you say, not exactly. We developed technology to make our life simpler not more difficult which in turn without learning new ways to stimulate our…