http://www.thinkdave.com Web site maintenance and web marketing for micro businesses Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:01:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "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 ... http://www.thinkdave.com/blog/online-business/book-meme/ 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... http://www.thinkdave.com/blog/marketing/marketing-trick-103-make-your-customers-smile/ 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. ... http://www.thinkdave.com/blog/wordpress/wordpress-27-is-about-to-become-the-only-cms-youll-ever-need/