Reader Question: What Is Drupal?
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Five Mistakes That Can Kill Your SEO
Considering that about half the people on the Internet find you through some kind of search engine query, it’s vitally important that you show up everywhere you should. Such are the intricacies of search engine optimization.
Improving your SEO is an on-going task, but here are five mistakes you can make to really kill your SEO strategy.
1. Use images for headings
September Talance Newsletter: Healthy Website Checklist
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Hi, Friends.
Websites, you know, are never done. They’re as close as you can get to living and breathing for something made of lines of code stored on computers around the globe. Trends change, organizations’ missions change and outside forces change too.
Six Really Good Ideas from Networked Non-Profits
It helps to see what other organizations are doing right to guide your own Web strategy. Here are six stand-out examples from non-profits that have a presence with websites, Twitter and Facebook.
Websites
10ThousandDoors.org is a gutsy move by the United Methodist Church to be a truly interactive experience. The whole site is innovative, but the Talk page is a new breed of discussion boards that has really opened up sharing and communication.
Reader Question: How Do I Add a Facebook Page to My Page’s Favorites?
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One feature of a Facebook Page for organizations is a Favorites Pages block. This lets you bookmark other Pages that you like or somehow related to yours. It’s a great tool for cross-promoting and partnerships.
Reader Question: What does WYSIWYG mean?
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WYSIWYG is an acronym, pronounced WIZ-ee-wig, that stands for What You See Is What You Get. In our Web world, it refers to website text editors that display the same thing while you're editing that appears when the document is published. So, when want a word to be bolded when published, it will look bold while you edit it.
Microsoft Word is a WYSIWYG editor. Notepad is not.
Work-Ahead Tools for Twitter
Twitter updates come as fast as you can draw a sharp breath, but they may not be as spontaneous as they seem. Thanks to a selection of scheduling services, you can create tweets ahead of time and post them in the future, while you're busy with something else.
Delayed tweeting isn't the best strategy for building relationships with your followers (can you imagine having your half of a conversation an hour before you meet a friend for lunch?), but it can help when you want to deliver a message but aren't able to.
5 Painless Ways to Squeeze More from Your Website
Getting your website to work for you doesn't have to mean a complete overhaul. Here are five small updates you can make without suffering.