Today’s entry, after a gap of some weeks, concerns a few examples of commonly-used but often-misunderstood words. Brought to you by the letter “L”. Lay or Lie? You (the subject of the sentence) lay something (the object). You put something down, in other words. A chicken lays an egg. When you lie down, however, there’s [...]

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Two great extensions to mention today before we get on to the important business of wasting the hours between now and 5pm being unproductive. Screengrab I often save images and web pages from the Internet. It’s easy enough. You press the “Print Screen” button on your keyboard to save the image you want, then open [...]

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So how do you do it? Yesterday we talked about how important backlinks are to the success of your SEO efforts. So how do you get those backlinks to your site and how can you feel the search engine love? Here are 10 ideas you might like to try out. I’ve used them and have [...]

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So far in this blog, I’ve talked about SEO from the point of view of optimizing your website’s metatags, title tags, link text and website page names. And all that’s useful and worthwhile, for sure. But it’s far from being the whole story. If you enter the phrase “click here” into any search engine, the [...]

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You understand what you’re writing. Does anyone else? When you write something, are you confident you’re getting the message across effectively? How can you be sure? Well, you can’t. Not completely. But one step you can take to give yourself the best possible chance of being understood by your reader is to write simply. Don’t [...]

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