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The Future of Technology Scholarship by Vandelay Web
[Update: May 23] We said that we’d reread all of the finalist essays again, but we didn’t plan on reading them all three times each. Along the way, we debated and discussed the merits of each, dropping a few as we went. At the end of the day, two stood out for their inventiveness, writing […]
Real Estate Agent SEO & Web Marketing Case Study
Welcome to our first installment of a four-part series on SEO and web marketing strategy for real estate agents. A lot of these tips and general advice will apply to small businesses on the whole, but we wanted to tailor our approach to realtors in order to show you how general web marketing and SEO […]
Vandelay Web Announces Acceptance of BitCoin
Web and systems development firm, Vandelay Web, announced Thursday that they would now accept payment via the online currency, BitCoin. Per coinmap.org, Vandelay Web will be one of only six merchants in the metro Atlanta area to accept the new digital currency. Vandelay Web president and founder Mark Runyon said of the move, “We are […]
Web Hosting Reviews: Digging to Find the Honesty & Truth
Web Hosting recommendations aren’t hard to unearth on the Internet. I just typed in web hosting reviews into Google and got back 162 million results — yes million. Now the real question is how many of those reviews are actually genuine and trustworthy. You’d probably have an easier time finding a kid who hates Christmas. […]
Is Google’s Product Pipeline Set to Revolutionize Technology?
As far as technology companies go, Google is one of the cooler ones building out cyberspace and changing how we think about technology. They are creating some of the most cutting edge products on the market and many are still flying under the radar of Joe Public. If you thought Google only helped you search […]
Infographic: iPhone 6 – What to Expect in the New iPhone
The long awaited iPhone 5s & 5c have been released into the wild only to be met with a collective wave of cheers and yawns. Some love the fresh colors and new features while others wonder why the once cutting edge company is failing to keep pace with its competitors. Now that we’ve seen all […]
Display Only Certain Categories or Single Post on Home Page in WordPress
WordPress is, well, the cats pajamas. For your interesting factoid of the day, cats pajamas was used by hipsters in the 1920s to refer to a person who was the best at what they do. I really can’t heave enough accolades on the platform, or its open source community. Though WordPress is painfully easy to […]
The Value of NoFollow Links in Web Marketing
Nofollow links have been with us since 2005 when Google instituted the tag to combat spam in blogs. Since that time, Google has advised the designation be used in things like advetorials, widgets, guest posts and infographics. The rule of thumb being if this is not genuinely editorial in nature (i.e. the website owner wouldn’t […]
Why Hasn’t My Traffic Returned After Manual Spam Action Was Revoked?
When I wrote the article on removing unnatural link penalties last month, I didn’t know it was going to morph into a series (hoped is probably the better word), but here we are. From my extensive research, I know there are a ton of webmasters not so silently suffering, and they are replete with questions […]
Using Images Legally on Your Website via Creative Commons, Stock Photos
I don’t know about you, but I don’t particularly like lawyers. Ironically enough, not to mention thankfully, one of my best friends is a lawyer. Lawyers just seem to tap into that wasteland of society that wants to live off the hard work of others. I see these injury lawyers beating their drum in the […]