Business Website Resources

RSS and Yahoo

whodurun4 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:19:00 GMT

Here's a guide to distributing content with Yahoo and RSS.

Search Engine Optimization's Most Effective Practices

whodurun4 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:51:00 GMT

Yaro Starak has two articles on SEO. Part 1 discusses internal SEO for your site. Part 2 focuses on exterior SEO for your site.

Starting a Web Design Business

whodurun4 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:31:00 GMT

These articles are more for my personal reference, but also have a quality startup suggestions for any business.

Steps to Becoming a Freelance Web Developer by Garrett Dimon

How to Become a Successful Freelancer by Ryan Carson

How to Get Started - Signal vs. Noise by RyanC

Business Startup Articles

whodurun4 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:24:00 GMT

Here are articles on starting a business by the guys at ParticleTree and lessons learned in the first year of business.

Google Sitemaps Resources

whodurun4 — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:42:00 GMT

John Jantsch posted a brief overview of Google's new Sitemaps service. I hope to post more on the service when I have the opportunity to look into it further.

Using RSS for Online Stores

whodurun4 — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:20:00 GMT

Lance Ulanoff hits the nail on the head in his article 'Goodbye' RSS. I'm amazed how few online stores use RSS feeds to broadcast sales and coupons. Although many online stores have functionality that allows customers to be emailed when a specific product reaches a predefined price, RSS offers more options. Personally, I've never used that functionality because I'm more tied to price, features and quality than make, model or store. Broadcasting prices and features for products in a category such as MP3 players, would enable customers to use feed aggregators to easily and quickly be notified when your store offers what they want with the potential to link directly to the online store. I'll be recommending my customers use RSS to at least allow customers to monitor sales.

Starting Again

whodurun4 — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:29:00 GMT

With my new venture, whodurun4 Web Design, I am starting my fourth blog. It will be focused on small business and the web. I hope to combine links I see as valuable resources worth referencing with original content of value to any seeking to learn about the web as it relates to business.