Six SEO Techniques Which Will Destroy Your Website
on Jul 8, 2009 in Search Engine Optimization barry wise google marketing search engines seo website yahoo 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 s...

New Website Protects Usernames From Social Media Identity Theft
on Apr 20, 2009 in Press Releases automatic username signup checkusernames identity theft knowem social media KnowEm.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 t...

The April Google PageRank Update and Why I Don’t Care (But You Do)
on Apr 2, 2009 in Search Engine Optimization google google pagerank optimization pagerank seo 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 blo...

Completed Another Social Networking Tool: CheckUserNames.com
on Feb 27, 2009 in News Press Releases brand name checkusernames social networking user names usernamecheck This one is (a little) more useful than TweetWasters. My new site, CheckUserNames.com, allows you to check the availability of your potential new username across dozens of popular social networking sites (MySpace, Delicious, LinkedIn, etc.). Due to...

ITCN Releases Youtuber2 Plugin for Wordpress
on Feb 9, 2009 in News Press Releases plugin video wordpress youtube youtuber2 Today 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

Global Find and Replace In Wordpress using MySQL
on Feb 4, 2009 in Code Samples Database code sample find and replace mysql search and replace wordpress In 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 publis

My Top 10 SEO Techniques for Small Business Website SEO/SEM Success
on Jan 8, 2009 in Search Engine Optimization Web Design 301 redirects google keyword research linkbuilding online marketing sem seo site hosting site usability small business website design yahoo I've been getting a lot more requests from small businesses for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and I seem to be repeating most of the same advice to every new client. Put simply, it is more difficult for small bu

Google Pagerank Update for the 2009 New Year
on Dec 31, 2008 in News Search Engine Optimization google google pagerank keywords pagerank search results seo Since I've put up a blog post every other time Google updated it's toolbar PageRank, I might as well not make tonight's any different. The final quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it's been extremely fr

Google December Pagerank Update for the 2009 New Year
on Dec 31, 2008 in News Search Engine Optimization google google pagerank keywords pagerank search results seo Since I've put up a blog post every other time Google updated it's toolbar PageRank, I might as well not make tonight's any different. The final quarterly PageRank update for 2008 is here, and (for me, at least) it's been extremely fr

For All You Twitterers: We Launched Tweetwasters.com Today
on Dec 12, 2008 in News Web Design api mashup programming tweetwasters twitter xml Whew, 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