Image copyright is something you, as a web publisher, need to take into account. It’s amazing how many site owners don’t even know they need to consider it. It’s one of those things that not knowing about can be a big problem. A friend of mine got an email from an attorney for one of the big stock photo sources. It seems she had a photo of theirs on her site, and they wanted $700 for past-due royalties. I’ve heard of people getting demands for $7,000 and up. If that happened to you, you … [Read more...] about Stop! Check the Image Copyright before You Post
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Why Use WordPress for Your Business Website
Why use WordPress for your business website? Your website is the hub of your marketing, and it makes a big difference whether it looks good, has the functions you need, and is easy to maintain and flexible to change. WordPress provides all those things. Not that long ago business owners with not much knowledge of the web were at the mercy of their web designers. Often, they ended up with horror stores instead of websites: Expensive, overly complicated sites that no one but the original … [Read more...] about Why Use WordPress for Your Business Website
How Blogging Makes Your Website SEO Friendly
For many business owners, having an SEO-friendly website is a goal that they never quite get around to. That’s a missed opportunity. Remember middle-school dances? The little clutch of girls sitting at one side, laughing too loud and glancing out the corner of their eye at the little clutch of boys in the other corner, laughing too loud and looking at the girls who are already dancing? The web is like that. Millions of websites waiting for visitors and a relative few getting all the … [Read more...] about How Blogging Makes Your Website SEO Friendly
3 Ways Your Professional Website Displays Your Competence
All day, every day, your professional website speaks for you. It talks to people who hear about you from satisfied clients, who find you through a search, and who click a link from some other site. When they arrive, they have already begun to evaluate you — not just your web skills, but your work ethic, your people skills, and how good you are at your job. It doesn’t matter that you just got your website set up in your spare time because you’re too busy doing great work for real clients. Web … [Read more...] about 3 Ways Your Professional Website Displays Your Competence
5 Reasons You Don’t Need a Professional Website
A friend of mine in the legal services field told me that she didn’t think she needed a website. She was too busy to do it herself, and she didn’t know where to go to get it done for her, other than those spammers who call or email with big promises and no accountability. Even though I could have created an effective website for her, I thought she might be right that she didn’t need one. She had a few decades under her belt in her field and had more work than she could keep up with. Although … [Read more...] about 5 Reasons You Don’t Need a Professional Website