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Developer Grade SEO

Any web developer can build a site, but the ones that can also make it findable have a huge advantage. Are you ready for Developer Grade SEO?

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Is Being a Web Developer Enough?

Stop thinking of yourself as a web developer and start looking for problems to solve.

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Why I’m Joining Media Two Interactive

I accepted a position as the Director of User Experience at Media Two Interactive in downtown Raleigh.

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WordPress Permissions

Don’t let file permissions make your WordPress life harder than it has to be.

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Real Estate BarCamp, the Raleigh, NC edition

I was excited when I started talking with Meredith Morgan about speaking at this years RDU Real Estate BarCamp. I’ve long felt that there are a few industries that have had to figure out the Internet fast, or perish. One is the newspaper industry which I recently left, but another is real estate. I remember [...]

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Calling Out Bad Realtor Websites

One of my very early posts on this blog was about how bad realtor websites are. I wrote that post almost 2 years ago, yet there are still realtors putting up with less than awesome sites. I was discussing the sad state of realtor websites on Twitter with a couple of friends when @vowconnect asks [...]

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Latent Semantic Indexing

Sometimes when you are trying to explain a simple idea, people zone out because they think they already know it all. That’s when you whip out a phrase like Latent Semantic Indexing. It’s a great phrase because it sounds like a super complicated scientific method for… well, something. In reality, it’s sort of what good [...]

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Speeding Up Your Site

I’ve written about the Yahoo and Google tools available for helping you find ways to speed up your site. There are lots of good suggestions that are easy to understand, but there’s one that isn’t so well known. If you are getting an warning about The following resources are missing a cache expiration, here’s what [...]

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