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"Flash" is a technology owned by Adobe. Many websites use Flash to show animation on their webpages.  Flash is most commonly used to display photos in a slideshow.  What most don't know is text in a Flash website cannot be read by Search Engines.  If your website was developed with Flash, Google only sees a 1-page website with no content, just an embedded Flash file. 

Responsive web design and mobile first are two concepts that have been receiving a lot of attention from the design community. While everyone’s talking about the progressive enhancement approach for designing themes, there’s been a surprising lack of talk about it from the CMS Administration end.

Recently, I was having a conversation with my girlfriend about replacing her old 13” Macbook. It’s getting up there in years and is still running Tiger OSX. Initially, she was planning on replacing it with a new 13” Macbook Pro.

“Do you think I should just get an iPad 3 instead?” she asked.

What does it take to get Top Ranking on Google? Let's start with some proven successful results.

Seeing proven successful results, like in the Google Searches you see below, gets me excited about sharing with you how to get top ranking in Google Searches.

What Are Motion Graphics?

Motion graphics refers to various types of graphic movements, including 3-D elements, cell animation, stop-motion animation, digital video, film and many others.

It’s a small-business owner’s worst Web nightmare: A customer or business partner calls up and says your website seems to now be an ad for Viagra pills from China or just infected them with malware. You’ve been hacked.

In recent weeks, a wave of hacks have hit small business around the Tri-Counties. The Business Times reached out to Web developers around the region for advice on how small-businesses can keep their websites more secure. Experts say that even without a huge budget or a full-time webmaster, small firms can take a few easy steps to protect themselves from some of the most common hacks and recover quickly if an attack does happen.

I had a chance to sit down with Bob Libbey, head of Digital and Social Communications at Pfizer, to discuss some of the topics that you will see at the Social Shake-Up Conference. Pfizer uses social media both to communicate within the company with MyW...

When the business world first found social media they it was a place where they could connect with their consumers at a personal level. Consumers were happy about the new communication channels as well. However recently businesses have reverted to outdated marketing stragies, such as broadcasting their message, loosing the one to one connection and distancing customers. Hubspot found:

Images are incredibly important when it comes to marketing your brand through social media. Just posting images is obviously not going to be enough to generate interest. As Stephen Shepherd said on Marketing Profs, you need to select sharable images and track the progress of your images.

Pressure has been put on sites with what Google is calling "faulty redirects". These occur when a user on a mobile device requests a desktop page linked to on Google and is instead redirected to the site's mobile homepage. According to Brian Klais, CEO of Pure Oxygen Labs (a mobile marketing firm), retailers with faulty redirects will suffer in their Google rankings.

It's the beginning of the month and it's again time to report to your clients or your boss on the SEO progress made last month. It's time to justify your SEO strategy, your efforts and yourself. Sound familiar?

With the challenging landscape of SEO comes the challenging landscape of SEO reporting, and I'm not just talking about merging SEO data sources into one Excel file and adding a logo to try to make it look professional, presentable, and understandable.