Barry Wise NJ SEO and Marketing Consultant http://www.barrywise.com NJ SEO, Web Design, Programming and Online Marketing Consultant Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:16:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Social Media Management Firm KnowEm Acquires FriendsCall.Me http://www.barrywise.com/2010/01/social-media-management-firm-knowem-acquires-friendscall-me/ Six SEO Techniques Which Will Destroy Your Website Sometimes it just seems easier to point out what your clients are doing wrong rather than work at explaining all the different ways to do it right. So here are six SEO Techniques I've noticed which will destroy your website, blog, or shopping cart site in search engine results. These are by no means the only things you can do wrong to hurt your website - I'm sure if you work hard you can find a few more - but these are some mistakes I've actually made so I've seen the sometimes disastrous results.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/07/six-seo-techniques-which-will-destroy-your-website/ New Website Protects Usernames From Social Media Identity Theft Thwart Social Media Identity TheftKnowEm.com launched a new web service today which monitors hundreds of popular websites for social media identity theft. By entering a username, which can be a brand name, internet identity, or vanity URL, KnowEm.com allows you to instantly monitor the availability of that username on over 120 popular social media websites such as Twitter, MySpace and Digg. ]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/04/new-website-protects-usernames-from-social-media-identity-theft/ The April Google PageRank Update and Why I Don’t Care (But You Do) Over the course of yesterday and today Google updated it's Toolbar PageRanks for websites. I would like to say that's awesome, because BarryWise.com is now a PageRank 5, but the truth is I really don't care. When I first started working on this blog in May of last year the PageRank was 0. That was a little less than a year ago; I said I would raise the PageRank and I did. But the truth is the traffic and exposure which this blog has gotten over the course of the past year has not correlated with the PageRank increases.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/04/the-april-google-pagerank-update-and-why-i-dont-care-but-you-do/ Completed Another Social Networking Tool: CheckUserNames.com http://www.barrywise.com/2009/02/completed-another-social-networking-tool-checkusernamescom/ ITCN Releases Youtuber2 Plugin for WordPress ITCN announced the release of their new modification to Roy Tanck's Youtuber, which we've decided to name Youtuber2. It is heavily based on his code, and works very similar. In order to embed a Youtube video in your Wordress posts, it uses the same syntax, but has several more options.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/02/itcn-releases-youtuber2-plugin-for-wordpress/ Global Find and Replace In WordPress using MySQL Wordpress LogoIn case you ever need to find and replace a text string in every post or page of your Wordpress site, this SQL code will help you out. I recently had to move a client's website from staging into production, and just when I was getting ready to publish the new site I realized Wordpress's HTML editor had hard-coded the URLs of every image in every post to the address of the staging server. This is actually a feature of Wordpress; when you upload an image into a post or page it uses an absolute URL, not a relative one. This really helps you out if any of your posts get picked up via RSS and published elsewhere, since the images will remain intact thanks to the absolute URLs.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/02/global-find-and-replace-in-wordpress-using-mysql/ My Top 10 SEO Techniques for Small Business Website SEO/SEM Success presented here are the top 10 suggestions I make to just about every new SEO or SEM small business client that comes to me looking for online marketing assistance:]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2009/01/my-top-10-seo-techniques-for-small-business-website-seosem-success/ Google December Pagerank Update for the 2009 New Year quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it's been extremely friendly. I no longer have a client or a site with a PageRank of less than 4, and I've helped several sites up to 5 or 6.

But PageRank is Pointless

]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2008/12/google-pagerank-update-for-the-2009-new-year/ For All You Twitterers: We Launched Tweetwasters.com Today Tweetwasters.com LogoWhew, it's been a hectic morning! Sugarrae, Streko, Reese and I have been working together to launch Tweetwasters.com, and we just shipped it out the door a few hours ago. It's a pretty simple application - it just polls the Twitter API to count how many status updates (ugh, do I have to call them "Tweets"?) you've posted to Twitter. Then we do some high-end mathematical computations to figure out just how much time you've wasted on Twitter -- assuming you spend about 30 seconds on average every time you send in a new a tweet.]]> http://www.barrywise.com/2008/12/for-all-you-twitterers-we-launched-tweetwasterscom-today/