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Fix: WordPress Upload HTTP Error

Posted on November 29, 2011 at 10:06am by Jerad Hill 2 Comments
Fix: WordPress Upload HTTP Error

My hosting company ran some updates on my server. After the updates I got errors attempting to upload images through WordPress and Joomla sites on my server. The error I received on WordPress was an HTTP error in red text. In Joomla it would actually kick me out to an Internal Server Error similar to…

10 Reasons Why Your Main Focus Should Be Your Website

Posted on November 8, 2011 at 9:30am by Jerad Hill No Comment
10 Reasons Why Your Main Focus Should Be Your Website

It seems like every day there is a new social network popping up with hopes and dreams of capturing the precious time of us internet users. Business owners have always gravitated to where the people are focusing their attention. When the radio took attention away from the newspaper, businesses focused their attention on radio. When…

eSellers: How to Prepare Your Website for Cyber Monday

Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:30am by Jerad Hill No Comment
eSellers: How to Prepare Your Website for Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday is the Black Friday of the web. Online retailers will pull out all of the stops this year to get the attention of potential online customers. Over the years the tactics have changed and competition is only a click away. The holiday season is a great time to run promotions and try new…

Click Like to View This Content

Posted on September 12, 2011 at 8:55pm by Jerad Hill 3 Comments
Click Like to View This Content

Earlier today I had a vision. I saw a world where good blog content could be unlocked for a viewer browsing a website in exchange for clicking a Facebook Like Button. They could read a post excerpt or an introduction and if they wanted to read the rest of the article they would click the…

Pages Your Website Must Have

Posted on August 3, 2011 at 4:45pm by Jerad Hill No Comment

Earlier today I gave a presentation to a group of business people I network with on the kind of content their website should contain. The presentation went well. I enjoy using the people that I am speaking to as examples in my presentations so that the examples are tangible. With the content fresh on my…

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5 Small Business SEO Tips for Higher Search Engine Ranking

Posted on August 16, 2010 at 9:00am by Jerad Hill 3 Comments

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a long process of organizing content, building links, and researching. Because most people have no idea what SEO really is, companies have found ways to charge for it with out really providing much end result. The best option is for you to do it yourself or work with someone local…

Adding a Facebook Like Button to your WordPress Website

Posted on April 21, 2010 at 5:21pm by Jerad Hill 10 Comments

Earlier today during the F8 Conference, Facebook announced some of their new social plugins that can be used through any website. I instantly got excited about this because now I can enable my websites with a Facebook Plugin that will allow viewers to not only share the specific page on my website they were viewing…

Google says Keyword Meta Tags are Not Used!

Posted on September 28, 2009 at 8:28pm by Jerad Hill 1 Comment

Google publicly responds to the age old question about keywords in meta tags. There has been speculation that they do not use the tags as much as they used to being that people have spent so much of the past easily spamming the system. Some of the blogs that I read and people I have…

Viewzi.Com – Visual Search Engine

Posted on September 9, 2009 at 2:43pm by Jerad Hill No Comment

Came across this really cool way to search the web. It’s called Viewzi.Com and it brings in Google search results in a very useful way. My favorite views are the powergrid and timeline views. If you spend a lot of time on the web such as I do, you can use this tool to see…

Must have iPhone Apps for Website Designers

Posted on August 24, 2009 at 7:34am by Jerad Hill 1 Comment

Those of you who know me, know that I have been through more iPhone Apps than the average person. I have used and reviewed many iPhone Apps on my website TheAppPodcast.com. The biggest issue with buying apps is knowing if they are worth the cost or not. As a website designer I use the apps…