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10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Have a Web Site

In the past, I’ve advocated using WordPress to manage your own web site. I’ve said that having your own web site is critical to the success of your business. I’ve said you should blog, that is, write posts regularly. I’ve … Continue reading

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Why WordPress?

I’ve recently updated some existing web sites to use WordPress for a couple different clients. They just wanted me to make some changes to their site. They had no idea that WordPress would allow them to update their own site … Continue reading

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WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org – The Definitive Overview for Business – Remarkablogger

Here is a great, simple explanation of the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. It’s a balance of simple and no control against difficult and total control. Being the control freak that I am, I always choose control. I want you, … Continue reading

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The Care and Feeding Of Search Engines – Soon!

The Care and Feeding Of Search Engines is the new name of the SEO book that I’m working on. It’s very, very close to being ready to publish. Like any project, the bulk of the work was done in a … Continue reading

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How Much Does WordPress Cost?

I ran into an old friend recently. The usual questions were asked about what’s happened in the 20 years since we’ve seen each other. Yes, I do web sites. They said they were about to update their web site. Their … Continue reading

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How To Look Up Domain Names

In the recent debate on how evil Network Solutions is, I neglected to give you the non-evil alternatives. JumpDomain Whois The easiest thing to do is go to an old registrar that quit answering my emails so I moved all … Continue reading

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Advantages of Managed Web Hosting | What It Is

Here are the advantages of having a “managed web host”. They are in fact true and good reasons. If you require 100% uptime, hardware replaced within 30 minutes, the best support, and remote backups, then yes, you need managed web … Continue reading

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How Much Web Server Space and Bandwidth Do I Need?

This is one of those questions that will get a complicated technical formula from the web development engineers, but it’s really not that hard. If you have to ask, then you don’t need very much. If you are just starting … Continue reading

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Free Small Business Web Site 01 – The Foundation – WordPress

WordPress is a system that allows you to manage your content. You might call it a content management system, or CMS, but only if you cared about this stuff. It’s a system built on a bunch of files that talk … Continue reading

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How Does DNS Work?

The Internet is a bunch of computers that all send little packets of data back and forth between each other. The computer that you are reading this on is one of them. Each computer must have some sort of identifier … Continue reading

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