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SEO – Ashley Berman Hale

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:09:29 +0000

I got the opportunity to have a great conversation with Ashley Berman Hale. During out conversation we discussed various topics to help local businesses to understand SEO and web promotion.

We talked about many SEO related topics including:

Building Web Sites

Should you use CMS or not
- Which CMS’s are available
  - WordPress
  - Joomla
  - Drupal
  - Other

Site Content and SEO

site structure
natural linking
usability
information architecture

Getting ranked locally

Edit you own local search listing

I’ve listed some of the resources we discussed here:

Webmaster Help Forum

Local Listing Info

Add your business to Google local search at the Google Local Business Center

MSN Local Listing Center

Yahoo! Local Listings

Below you’ll find the info for Ashley Berman Hale

You can contact Ashley at Ashley’s LinkedIn page

Silver Stripe – Interview with Sigurd Magnusson

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:11:21 +0000

Glenn interviews Siguard Magnusson from the SiliverStripe project. SilverStripe is a newer open source CMS that has been getting increasing traction since it was use to host the Democratic Convention Web Site.

This CMS is backed by a company also called SilverStripe. The company is located at silverstripe.com while the open source project is located at silverstripe.org.

In this episode Sig (Siguard) give us an overview of what SilverStripe is, where it’s positioned in the CMS community and how it can help a small business with their web site.

Choosing a CMS

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:57:11 +0000

As a small business owner you might be in a position to choose a CMS (Contact Managment System) yourself, but you should have an idea of the options available to you so you can my more informed about this impact of one choice or the other. In this episode Glenn and Gerry discussus varius options available for a CMS.

Joomla – Interview with Joe Hacobian

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:37:30 +0000

Recently I got the oportinuity to talk with Joe Hacobian of the The Los Angeles Joomla, and Web CMS Meetup. Joe is a heavy proponent of Joomla which is a PHP Contact Management System to help small business maintain their own websites. I think you’ll gain some inside into what Joomla is all about by listening to this interview.

You can find Joe at cinematicpictures.com and you can find his Joomla group at www.meetup.com/LA-Joomla.

WordPress Question Answered by Matt Mullenweg?

bennett — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:19:23 +0000

Charles Stricklin

First I’d like I’d like to thank Charles and the crew over at the WordPress Podcast for airing my question to Matt (the founding developer of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress) . It was a nice treat to have Matt right there to answer my question. I’m not sure if he answered my question directly or not (is he running for office by chance), but I think he said, “There’s not a chance of making anything stable”. He talked about support for 2.0 as being a problem, but it was important to have that version there for people that could not upgrade to newer versions of other software like php and MySQL. In fact without that version I problably would never have started to use WordPress. I know several people that had to use that version due to their server configuration.

My basic warning for small business is to not use this software unless you have some one you can count on to help you not only fix it, but also maintain it on a regular basis. The risk it just to high. Once a site is compromised it will take some serious expertise to restore it. Most of the time in order to sovle this problem the site needs to be deleted and rebuilt from scratch. Backups can help, but sometimes the compromised it not noticed for quite awhile and trying to return to a version that is still available and does not contain any compromised or contaminated in anyway it difficult to discover.

If google discovers a problem with your site it will be delisted pretty quickly and users will be steared away from it. Now used get omonis looking red screen warning them that your site might distroy the visiters computer. Most users (I’d say 99%) will not continue and will probably not return.

Jonathan Bailey

We use WordPress for this site primarily because our focus is on doing a podcast and wordpress really helps us distribute our podcast. We use a script to automatically update the the WordPress software and log in frequently enough to be notified of WordPress updates. Also we use several plugins to make you (our readers) experience more useful and enjoyable, but these plugins also need to be updated. It’s getting to the point that every time I login in to add some information I have to do some type of update as well.

The problem with WordPress are not unique to WordPress. Any php software that you install
on your site that allows you to add any kind of content to your site has the potential of being compromise and allow malicious user to add or change information on your site.