Book meme

“It’s very hard to correlate any particular action with a particular increase or decrease in search engine rank. Often when a rank drops, it’s because of something that Google has done, not anything you’ve done.” - Search Engine Optimization for Dummies, 3rd Edition by Peter Kent.

Book meme:

  • Grab the nearest book.
  • Open it to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

via leahculver.com

I know it’s sad that I’m reading SEO for Dummies, but someone bought it for me as a gift. And I’ve actually learnt a few things from it. In fact, if you’re a micro business website owner, you may want to read it too.

And I know the meme says to post the text of the 5th sentence, but the 6th sentence was a good one so I had to use it.

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While being dragged around a shopping centre yesterday I came across this sign in a tiny little flower shop. So simple, yet it stopped me in my tracks and made me smile. Clever marketing…

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WordPress 2.7 is about to become the only CMS you’ll ever need

I came across a promotional video for the Beta release of WordPress 2.7 on Webmonkey today. Looking at the promo it looks like the WordPress development team are really starting to put more emphasis on the Content Management aspect of the platform.

No longer is WordPress just a blogging tool. It’s becoming the only tool you’re ever going to need to run your website. Take a look at this

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I have been building and managing small business websites since 2003. I have an academic marketing background and 9 years experience as a business-to-business marketing manager.

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