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Consider the following fairly commonly type of scenario we receive from local clients seeking assistance with promoting their business online:

“I have created a new website from my line of clothing for children. Do you know how I can promote this new site without investing too much money? I would greatly appreciate your advice on some tips and tricks to get my company noticed online!”

In response to this type of inquiry, we normally offer a series of ideas regarding website promotion. The following are five examples of methods newer website owners may use to drive traffic to a local business website, focusing on the aforementioned apparel scenario.

1) Make comments on popular blogs and websites that provide useful information to your target cliente, and add a link back to your website. Read more.

2) Submit feeds to shopping web platforms. This puts your products in front of existing markets. Read more.

3) Contribute to your community and local charities as this heightens local recognition of your business, including your inline portal. Read more.

4) Sponsor a newsletter whose audience is your potential customer. Read more.

5) Contact an SEO specialist to find out how they might be able to augment your personal SEO efforts. Read more.

As part of our efforts to include useful links on our clients’ websites, we have created a new link category on MDM Shelters: Furniture & Construction. Since MDM makes portable garages and outdoor shelters, it makes sense for us to place links to sites that specialize in furniture and other garden accessories. Hopefully, our customers will find the new links useful and convenient.

The murder of Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, by one of his own bodyguards has grabbed headlines around the world this past week. Taseer incurred the enmity of Pakistani religious conservatives by speaking out in favor of the rights of women and religious minorities.

Recently, Taseer has advocated the repeal of Pakistan’s hoary blasphemy law, which prescribes mandatory execution for anyone convicted of “insulting Islam” – most recently, a mother of four from Pakistan’s terrified Christian minority.

Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, inexplicably assigned to Taseer’s security detail despite being a religious whackjob, decided to please God by shooting his boss either nine or twenty-four times, according to varying reports. After earning his ticket to Heaven, Qadri gave himself up, and was showered with flowers from well-wishers on the way to the hoosegow. One of them even created a Facebook group in his support, which lists almost 300 members (who, I bet, immediately show up on a couple of other lists as well) and overflows with schmaltzy paeans to the heroic act of killing an unarmed man for the sin of trying to drag his country into the 18th century.

Unfortunately, the only way to leave a comment on the group’s wall of madness is to join it, so we are reduced to firing off blog posts into the ether, with sincere wishes that Qadri’s punishment fits his own medieval views.

Well, we made it through another year! What have we learned from 2010? What were our accomplishments?

There were earthquakes, fires, volcanoes and floods, but the sun didn’t go out and the Internet didn’t shut down. Our government did nothing but fight itself for 11 months, only to rally like a college sophomore and win a last chance for a passing grade with a spurt of accomplishments in the two weeks before Christmas. One war drew down, while another escalated. Christopher Nolan made a good movie, and M. Night Shyamalan made a bad one.

Everybody is trying to dig themselves out from under the recession, and, if you live in the North-East, about a yard of snow. Gourmet hamburgers are still the best comfort food in existence.

In 2011, let’s try harder, stretch our arms out further, and get ourselves out of this funk already. Happy New Year, everyone!

That’s interesting… As a New Haven County Business and New Haven resident, I hope this leads to energy cost savings, we could all use good news on this front

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Yesterday, an article written by 3PRIME’s content writers went up on CarTransport.co, a car transport company domain operated by 3PRIME. The article examines Ford Motor Company’s financial decisions in the run-up to the 2008-9 recession, and the way that the company’s decision to reject public bailout money presented it with a unique marketing opportunity.

The decision elevated the company in the eyes of consumers, and Ford used the opportunity to rebrand by combining the new-found goodwill with a fresh redesign of their automotive offerings, as well as innovative products such as industry-leading hybrid vehicles. Read the entire article at CarTransport.co: link.

On October 2nd, Connecticut cops have started another crackdown on distracted drivers. The same people who can’t stay off their phones in restaurants, grocery checkout lines, public restrooms and movie theaters are at it behind the wheel as well, with often-disastrous results. Studies show that a distracted driver is four times more likely to get into a serious accident than someone who has their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel; nationwide, cell phones have been involved in over 6,000 traffic deaths in 2008 alone. The problem is so widespread that it’s been showing up in our favorite public relations media, the funny church signs (see photo).

In Connecticut, a cell phone behind the wheel means an automatic ticket; during previous crackdowns, over 5,000 lucky drivers have gotten an addendum to their phone bill that way. This author hopes that, as a result of increased police activity, he’ll see fewer phones near people’s faces as their SUV’s speed by his bicycle.

I have been using GotWebHost.com extensively for business and personal projects where I need groups of hosting products and I have come across this occasionally after installing Wordpress using their automatied installatron application.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/bu8cjdk/domains/[Your-Domain]/public_html/wp-config.php on line 46

The problem is caused by the automated generation of the secure_auth _keys in Wordpress’s config.php file. The algorithm allows for singe-quotes to be a part of the string unatrually breaking the process.

The fix is to edit the config.php file, identify where, on the indicated line, the random character string got stopped with a single quote and clear it up so that it is a natural PHP expression.

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What does your street view say about your town? See what it says about this town!

Go to: maps.google.com

Put in this address: 526 7th St Rapid City South Dakota

Click on the address on the left

Click to see the Street view…. and scroll left (click and drag to the right)

Google Maps Street View Tells the Truth

A woman in the UK is suing Google for violating her right to privacy. We will be checking over Google’s privacy notification for relevant statements but our initial opinion is that she used a free service and got the service provider dragged into court. Seems to me that at that point, your free service is going to be cancelled and your publicaly made statements will then be traced back to you.