Shane’s SEO Plugin List

My list consists of 3 amazing plugins. The first is All-In-One SEO, second is Google XML Sitemap, and third is SEO Smart Links. These three are great and are always kept up to date. Below is a image and small description or each.

1) All-In-One SEO

All In One SEO is by far the most used SEO plugin that WordPress offers. It is really great and simple to use. You have a tab on the left of the dashboard. This is where you can do everything you need for the home page. It lets you do everything from keywords, description, title, canonical urls, title formats, additional headers for post/pages, and much more. The really great thing is that you can do SEO for each individual page and post right inside the pages or post you are working on. You can also set it up so that it takes your tags as keywords. This is by far the best SEO plugin WordPress has to offer. You can find All-In-One SEO on WordPress.org or go to the creators website at Semper Fi Web Design

2) Google XML Sitemap

As my second pick I feel this is just as important as my first pick. This creates a XML sitemap that is browser friendly. Now just because it says Google in the title I dont want you to think it just is for Google. Nope this plugin creates a sitemap that will work for most search engines and it also submits to the major search engines for you. It also lets you set a priority on stuff like posts, pages, homepage, and others. Besides doing that it lets you exclude certain categories, individual posts, and lets you select the frequency of change to your content. This lets search engines know how often they need to crawl your site. You can download this plugin on wordpress.org or go to the creators site at Arne Brachhold

3) SEO Smart Links

My third pick is not necessarily the most needed but it comes in real handy if you want to inter link word to pages or want to do external links every time a word is used. It makes it really easy to build links between friends and/or sites you own. This plugin is pretty cool it basically lets you choose words that you want to link to urls. It also automatically makes inter links to all words that are pages and posts. So for instance if you post something that has contact and that is the name of your contact page it will make a inter link. This plugin be downloaded at wordpress.org or you can get it at the creators site at Vladimir Prelovac.

Other SEO Plugins

Here are some other great SEO plugins for WordPress. These are not bad plugins by no means, they just did not make my personal best list. All of these plugin can be found on wordpress.org and below they all link to their creators website.

• Automatic SEO Link
• Head Space 2
• Meta Robots WordPress plugin
• Nofollow Case By Case
• Platinum SEO plugin
• Redirection
• SEO Blogroll
• SEO for Paged Comments
• SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings
• SEO Friendly Images
• SEO Post Links
• SEO Title Tag

Shane’s Keyword Tool List

1) Google Keyword Tool
Well to start the best tool hands down has to be Google’s Keyword Tool. Not only is this tool free but it give you a good ideas of the amount of people that are using certain keywords based on your page or word that you input.

2) Google Trends
Google Trends really isn’t a keyword tool to say but can be used the same way. Really in order to get traffic to a article, you need to find out what is getting talked about. So I personally use >a href=”http://www.google.com/trends”>Google Trends to find keywords about topics that are popular at the time.

3) Word Stream
What can I say about Word Stream. I personally don’t use it that much because of Google’s wonderful system but if I am in need of a second opinion, so to say, I go here.

4) Word Tracker
Let alone Word Tracker has a great keyword system, it has other tools that are also useful. Word Tracker is not free but they do offer a free trial.

I know that my list is not the biggest but I don’t believe in using a ton of different systems that might work. I aim to get a few system that work for me and keep using what works. If you might have any suggestions to what I should add to the list or even what I should try out please comment with your suggestions.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and some all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

Placing The Tags and Attributes

Well lets start with our main title tag and meta tags. These tags go in the head area of your web page. This is located at pretty much the top of your page. Example:

<head>
<title>This is your title tag</title>
<meta name="description" content="This is your descriptive sentance">
</meta><meta name="keywords" content="These, Are, Your, Keywords,">
</meta></head>

With these tags there aren’t really limitations to them. But most search engines have limitations to them. For instance your description should be no more then 120 characters because most search engines only use 120 characters. With your keywords really you should have between 8-12. With your title tag it should be at least 60 characters.

On to the other tags/attributes. Your alt and title attribute for images and links. The alt and title attribute can be used for the image but only the title attribute can be used for the link. These are pretty simple but sometimes easy to forget to do. Example:

<a href="" title="This is Your title attribute for a link">for a link</a>
<img src="" alt="This is your alt" title="This is your title" />

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and some all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

How To Break The Top 500000

Really to be honest breaking the top 500000 is not as hard as it might seems. I am going to give you a 5 step way to get your site closer breaking the top 500000 in Alexa. This will start you on your way to getting closer to the harder mark of 200000.

Step One – Content Is King

The biggest way to get more people to your site is to make it bigger. Now I don’t mean go out and find the biggest image you can and put it on your site. I mean make more articles, more posts, more pages, and more places for people to interact. A great way to start this is to build a blog. Most people hear blog and think well am I going to have to post daily. NO, you could post one article a month and it would be good enough. The worst part about blogs is getting a blog that is hosted by another site. For instance Blogspot. Getting a Blogspot account is not a bad thing but it will not help your site much. You need a blog that is built into your website like WordPress.

Step Two – Sitemap Submission

What is a sitemap? It is a easy xml template of your site. It makes it easy for search engines to crawl your site. You can make one of these really simply by just going to Google and type in Free Sitemap Builder. Once you have your sitemap you will need to put it somewhere on your server. Most of the time it is in the root directory of your website. After that you can submit it to all different search engines and then they will know what is on your website.

Step Three – Meta Tags

Your meta information is not the easiest thing to do because you have to get creative and it takes time. But, if you just put up the mere basics, like title, keywords, and descriptions. Your site will start to grow rapidly. A really good place to start with meta tags is Search Engine Watch.

Step Four – Social Media

One of the easiest and fastest ways to get traffic to your site is with Social Media. Everyone knows that Social Networks are the big thing. I really only know a few people who don’t have a Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on. The easiest way to get peopel to your site. Submit each page that you want people to find to StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Technorati, Reddit, and many more. This is simple and takes but 30secs per submittion.

Step Five – Content Content Content

I know I mentioned this already and it is the number one way. But it is also the number 5 way because it is the best way to get people to your site. Really SEO, SEM, Submitting, and Social Media cant come close to a site that has a ton of content. If you don’t have content then you will not get many people.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by chance need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me, or, you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are gaining popularity in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for individual/private clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

Shane’s Opinions

I personally think that every person should have a blog or a place where they write about what they like. With this it should be a place that anyone can read and comment on. This is a great way to share your opinions about what you blog. This can create conversations that can lead to friendships and even job opportunities. Business owners don’t normally have a lot of time to read different sites but you will find that once they find a site they like. They will keep coming back. Let alone everyone should have there own blog. I feel that with everyone having a blog it will let them share everything they want with the world. If you are looking to get a blog or start a blog. There are a ton of different free sites out there that you can start blogging (blogspot, wordpress, and more). I think the best thing is to not only have a blog but have a website that houses your blog. This should be a personal site that is just about you. What I would recommend if you are in need of a website is to contact chosen. Chosen is a small company that looks to grow individuals and companies.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

However if you are looking to make more money and grow to a national level you need to do something bigger. There are some great ways to market yourself on a national or even a global level. Probably the best way is to build yourself a website. With a website you can reach out to everyone that has a computer. So you are looking at almost every household in the US and a lot in other countries.

Building A Website

Almost anyone can build a website. You could just ask your neighbor if they know anyone who builds a website. More times than not, they do, but very rarely can that person build you a professional one. But, if you are really serious about making yourself and your website known you need to find a professional. A company that I work for is Chosen. We are not just a business but we are a small business of experts. We do not charge high prices that you would get at a bigger company or even with a bigger name. Our prices are inexpensive, but our work is of high quality.

We also develop all our customer sites. So you are not getting something from someone halfway around the world. We pride ourselves in helping to build small to mid businesses not just with their website, but with business development altogether. We don’t just build you something and then walk away. We make sure that you are happy with what you get and periodically do checkups with our clients to see if there is anything that needs changing or updated.

Marketing Your Site

Once you have yourself a website you need to market it. Now some people wonder what this means and ask “isn’t getting a website marketing.” Well yes but if you don’t market your site then no one is going to see it. This is where SEO, SEM, sitemap building, PPC and other means of trafficking come into play. I will offer brief descriptions on each.

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the process of making your site more visible by search engines. This is done with keywords, title tags, alt tags, heading, and other web elements. SEM or Search Engine Marketing is the process of marketing your site with the many different search engines. This takes place by letting these search engine know that you exist. Sitemap Building is the process of creating a sitemap for search engines. A sitemap is a easier and quicker way of showing search engines your site. So the faster they see your site the faster they bring people to your site. Probably the fastest way to build traffic to your site is with PPC or Pay Per Click campaigns. What these are, are the little ads that you see all over sites now. Most of the time they are Google Ads solicited through Google Adsense accounts. The process by you submitting your site with whatever company you are using. Most of the time Google. It also involves you select catchy keywords that best describes your site, and applying them to the account, and in time these words show up in engines, and lead visitors to your site. If someone clicks your ad, you pay for that click, but this can get expensive with the more keywords that you have or can be really cheap.

Probably the next most notable way of marketing your site is through Social Media network sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and others. There are many more ways to market your site and thus ensure it gets seen.

Summary

So if you are a company that would like to become a global company all you have to so is get on the web. Once you apply some of the above measures, talked about and you will see your sales climb. Who knows maybe they will climb enough that you can retire and have others run the business.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

Please check out Chosen. If you need assistance with web design, web development, search engine optimization, editing, content creation or marketing done to one of your sites please feel free to contact me or Chosen. Chosen is a small, but growing national-based firm offering Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, Web Editing, and Web Marketing skills. We have done work for clients and companies, by preference, but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you. Please mention that you came from shanestrong.com.

Google Ads

Google everyone knows them and probably everyone has seen multiple ads by them. They will accept every site. Not just because they have the money to do so but they can measure where the person who clicked on the ad came from. For instance If you put ads up on your site by Google. You have to register where you live with them. Now not saying that you should but yeah you could go to a neighboring town and click on your ads and yes you will probably get money for it. But, Google is smart if it finds a pattern in clicks and area of the clicks then it will suspect something and you can get prosecuted for it. What does this mean you will loose your ability to use Google ads and could be fined and possible jail time. In order to setup Google ads on your site all that you have to do is register with Google Adsence it is really easy to find just go to Google and search for Google ads or ads. You do not have to have a Google email to register. Once you setup your account then all you have to do is go through the tutorials inside Google Adsence to get the feel for how to go about making money. The really tough part about making money with Google is where to put the ads. For instance you want the ads in places that people are going to click them and they dont look like ads. There are different kinds of ads and ad sizes that you can choose from. I am using there rss feed ads and there regular ads.

Other Ad Companies

There are a ton of other really good ad companies but the two that I like the most is Chitika Ads and Text Link Ads. Both of these ad companies pay pretty good especially Text Link Ads. The only problem with these ad companies is you have to have a high amount of traffic to your site before they will accept you. A really good way to increase your traffic to your site is with Optimization. This can be done in many different ways the best is to get everything optimized. This includes SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), Title and Alt Tags, Content Emphasis, Creating Ads For Your Self, and much more. The best is to do all of them but if you are looking for some quick traffic. Then you best bet is to create a ad with a high end company (Google). Google is extremely cheap for creating ads it would only cost you around $50-$100 a month for good ads and it goes up from there. Now even with creating ads for yourself this doesn’t mean that your site is going to get enough of a boost that it needs. That is why I said that it is best to get everything done. That way you are building traffic from multiple areas. Whether it be Search Engines, Advertising, or Keywords.

SEO Packages

If you are in need of any Search Engine Optimization I do have packages and I can teach people how to do SEO. My monthly packages for SEO all depend on how much you want done. I charge $25US an hour. With that my recommended package would be 20 hours a month this will give you the best outcome. Of course the more hours you do the better outcome you will get but at 20 hours a month I can really get enough done to your site that it will show improvement a lot quicker and will make you more money faster. I also have a bunch more different packages and prices for web based projects, you can go to Work Prices.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you need assistance with web design, web development, search engine optimization, editing, content creation or marketing done to one of your sites please feel free to contact me or Chosen. Chosen is a small, but growing Lansing-based firm offering Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, Web Editing, and Web Marketing skills. We have done work for clients and companies, by preference, but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

Google has stopped using PageRank in there webmasters tools. Google feels that PageRank is not something that is of much importance. I am here to tell you that is not the case. If you are a Search Engine Optimizer or a Search Engine Marketer then you will know that a high PageRank means that you are doing a good job.

Let’s take into consideration if your site has a PageRank of 0 or 1, with 0 being the lowest on the PageRank scale. That means your site probably isn’t getting but maybe 30 hits a day and most of the time those are all bots. This means your site is making no money. In order to raise your PageRank you will need to either pay someone to get your site SEO and SEM ready. If you can get your site SEO or SEM ready then your page rank could jump up to say 2 or 3 and maybe even 4. Now if you have a PageRank of 3 or 4 you are probably getting around 80-250 hits a day to your site. Now, I dont know about you but I would much rather have 80-250 hits a day over the 0 or 1 page rank. Just think what your site would be making you if your PageRank was up to say 6 or 7. Well it would be a ton more than a PageRank of 1 or 2.

High PR Sites

If you can achieve a PageRank of a higher number you will get more and more people consistently coming to your site. Look at any of the high PageRank sites out there. For example let see who has a PageRank of 10. Well we all know Google is going to be at the top of the list. But some of the others are adobe.com, cisco.com, apache.org, apple.com, nasa.gov, microsoft.com, and many more. Can you make a guess on how many times a day these sites are getting hits? Well the answer is millions-billions a day. That means their sites are probably making millions of dollars every day . If you look at a list of sites that have a PageRank from 7 to 10 you will see that of all these sites you have probably been to each one multiple times. Now multiply your multiple times of going there times billions of people and you will get a really big number with a bigger money value behind it.

PageRank Overview

So lets see a higher PageRank brings in more income to your site. Which in turn means a bigger site and bigger bank account. In order to get your PageRank higher what do you need to do? Spend the money and get someone to do some basic SEO and SEM to your site. This way you will get found and your traffic will start to rise and your Page Rank will start to rise. Which means you income will start to rise. So to everyone who is wondering if PageRank really matters yes it does. It matters in many different ways most of all money profit.
For a list of some high page rank sites go to http://www.doheth.co.uk/info/list-of-web-sites-with-high-page-rank.php

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you need assistance with web design, web development, search engine optimization, editing, content creation or marketing done to one of your sites please feel free to contact me or Chosen. Chosen is a small, but growing Lansing-based firm offering Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, Web Editing, and Web Marketing skills. We have done work for clients and companies, by preference, but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

Top Ten SEO Tool List

Search Engine Genie
Website Grader
Google Adwords
Google Analytics
SEO Quake
SiteExplorer
Google Trends
Search Status
seomoz.org
Word Tracker

What The SEO Tool Does

Search Engine Genie – This site is not well known but it has quite a few really nice SEO tools that are free to use and they have a ton of really helpful articles.
Website Grader by HubSpot – I use this site to get a good idea of where a site is and where it might need to be and get to. HubSpot has a paid version of this that has a ton of really great SEO tools. They have a free week trial of the system if I were you I would jump at the trial and see if you like it.
Google Adwords – This is a great way to find out how heavily a keyword is being targeted. I use this when ever i am looking for the really good keyword to get a site going.
Google Analytics – Great tool if you are not using it you are loosing out. My main use for this is to see what is bringing traffic into my site or my client sites. With the name Google behind this you know that you are going to 1 get it for free and 2 get something that is great.
SEO Quake – This is a plugin for Firefox that gives you a ton of really useful info that you need for SEO. I know a few different people that this is the only tool that they use for SEO.
Site Explorer by Yahoo – This is a useful tool for the yahoo search engine. I prefer Google’s Analytics over this because it has more to it.
Google Trand – Great tool by Google this lets you find the trends of the time so that you can find the really good keywords and SEO articles to write for traffic purposes.
Search Status – I really enjoy using Search Status because of its simplicity. I am a Firefox user and this is a Firefox plugin.
seomoz.org – These people really know what they are doing with SEO. They have a ton of free tools and they also have some really great paid tools.
Word tracker – I personally have not used this service but i have heard from a ton of people that they are great. It is a paid service but they do have a free trial.

SEO Packages

If you are in need of any Search Engine Optimization I do have packages and I can teach people how to do SEO. My monthly packages for SEO all depend on how much you want done. I charge $25US an hour. With that my recommended package would be 20 hours a month this will give you the best outcome. Of course the more hours you do the better outcome you will get but at 20 hours a month I can really get enough done to your site that it will show improvement a lot quicker and will make you more money faster. I also have a bunch more different packages and prices for web based projects, you can go to Work Prices.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

Practical

Now for a little practical look at SEO. If someone came to me and said I want to be number one for the word Google I would look at you and tell you to talk to this company called Google. Some things are not able to happen. One of the biggest things with SEO is that it takes time. Look at my site for instance I live in Michigan around the Lansing Area. Now I am trying to get to the top for Lansing Web Design, Lansing Web Development, Michigan Web Design, Michigan Web Development, and a ton of other Michigan and Lansing combination’s. Well I am finally getting there after 5 months of hard work. One thing that most people don’t understand is that in order to get to the top for a certain word or phrase you have to beat out the competition. That means you have to do research on what other people do, how they do it, where there flaws are, and how can you beat them.

SEO Consists

SEO and SEM are two totally different things people think that one goes with the other. Well they are kind of right in the fact that they both assist each other. SEM is Search Engine Marketing, this consists of stuff like Google Adsence, Post Writing, Building Backlinks, and a bunch of other things. SEO is mainly focused around Meta tags and search engine submissions. Meta tags are not a really big thing for SEO. That is what people say. Well I feel that they are still a very big thing. Meta tags direct search engines on what to index on your site. There are a ton’s of different Meta tag that you can use in SEO but the most important ones are Keywords, Descriptions, and Titles. The last thing that I will leave you with is that everyone can do SEO and SEM. SEM is a little easier for people because of all the social media places out there. SEO is really hard and takes a lot of planning. I would recommend everyone to leave SEO to the people that consider them self experts. I am not saying don’t try to learn SEO or teach your self SEO because you could become one of those experts.

SEO Packages

If you are in need of any Search Engine Optimization I do have packages and I can teach people how to do SEO. My monthly packages for SEO all depend on how much you want done. I charge $25US an hour. With that my recommended package would be 20 hours a month this will give you the best outcome. Of course the more hours you do the better outcome you will get but at 20 hours a month I can really get enough done to your site that it will show improvement a lot quicker and will make you more money faster. I also have a bunch more different packages and prices for web based projects, you can go to Work Prices.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

Traffic Meta Breakdown

Back in the day all traffic came from your meta tags and your keywords. Don’t get me wrong these are still very useful but they don’t build you as much traffic because of the millions of website out there. To give you an example I would love to be the number 1 site on Google for web design well that really isn’t practical it is possible but when you search web design you get 343,000,000 that is how many pages are being crawled with the words web design. Now I am not saying don’t try to get to the top of the list. Defiantly try but try for something a little smaller like for instance I am from Michigan and so I am trying to get top for Lansing Web Design and Michigan Web Design. If you search Lansing Web Design I am close to the top. Now if I use keywords like that and try to focus on a smaller scale my site will rise on the bigger scale.
Your keyword meta tag is important but you have two other tags that are even more important your title meta tag and description meta tag. Your title meta tag is different from your normal title tag because it is what the browsers look at first and way a lot of their decisions on. The regular title tag is also very important it should be used everywhere that it is possible.

Best Ways To Produce Traffic

Here is a list of some really good ways to build traffic to your site.
1) Submitting – You must submit your site to search engines.
2) Use a favicon.ico
3) Depending on what your site is about submit it to other sites with that kind of material.
4) Have a lot of content. This still has to be good content. Pictures really bring in lots of traffic.
5) Use your META tags effectively. META help
6) Advertise with google or other advertising companies.
7) Use Social Media by talking about your site.

Probably the fastest way to get traffic to your site is pay per click. Yes it is going to cost you but in the long run of things it will be worth it. Some people think that after doing these things your site will just magically appear at the top of Google or Yahoo but it won’t. Building a vast amount of traffic takes time and some times money.

Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing

If you by change need web design, web development, search engine optimization, or marketing done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are a small business but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

What is it that you are looking for in your site? What would you like your site to do? How often are you planning on updating your site? Would you like to have the ability to change your site? Well these are some of the questions that we ask a client that comes to us wanting a site. Most people don’t understand that their is much more to a site then just having a idea of “I need a site” or “my company needs a site.” With these questions that I have asked it starts me thinking would it be better for my client to have a CMS or not. A CMS is a Content Management System it is used to give the buyer the ability to make small changes to the site pages in case they may need to change some text or something little. Once I find out that my client may need a CMS then comes the point of giving the client a CMS that will work with their needs. For instance if a client came to me and said that they would like a site that has a blog area that they could update daily. The first thing that comes to my mind is WordPress. Let alone WordPress is very user friendly it has so many capabilities and plugins that are free. If my client came to me and said that they would like a site that they would only have to change about every 6 months or more. I would probably look at either building the site with static information or using a smaller CMS. My personal preference would be Frog CMS. It is easy to learn and is easy to customize because of its small size. Their are a lot of different opinions on what is the best CMS. I don’t really think their is a “best” I feel that it really depends on the situation and the developers preference. A short list of some of the free CMS’s out their:

Most Known

• WordPress
• Drupal
• Joomla

Not So Known

• Frog CMS
• Media Wiki
• Typo3 CMS
• Moodle
• Dolphin
• Pligg CMS
• Movable Type
• Xoops
• Geeklog
• e107
• Mambo
• Nucleus CMS

My Opinion

This is just a few of the vast amount of CMS’s out their that you can choose from. Note that all of these are free open source CMS’s. I have mt own opinion about these CMS’s and I believe even though Drupal and Joomla are two of the biggest CMS’s they are two of the most complicated. I personally would stick with WordPress for blog sites and for smaller sites I would go with Frog CMS but this is my personal opinion. I would say defiantly try out multiple CMS’s to see what you build a preference to. If you have tried out any of the CMS’s on the list or any that are not on the list please feel free to leave a comment about them.

Web Design And Development

If you by change need web design or web development done to one of your sites you can get in contact with me or you can contact Chosen. Chosen is a Lansing based Web Development, Web Design, Web Hosting, and Web Marketing firm. We are small but are growing in the Lansing Area for our Web Design and Development skills. We have done work for clients and companies. We prefer client work but we also take contract work. We have worked with most of the biggest web companies in the Lansing Area and all the way out to California. We would love to hear from you.

• Use Stylesheets whenever you are able to, limit the number of inline styles that you use.
• Don’t rely on flash for key functionality.
• Don’t use to much flash or java script because it will bough down your site.
• Don’t make a perfect design with no content.
• Don’t have a lot of content with bad design.
• Use a easy domain name that can be remembered.
• Use text rather than images where you are able because it will increase you search engine rank.
• Don’t make the site hard to navigate.
• Don’t make the site a small font but don’t make the site a big font either.
• Don’t make a site without a goal already set.
• Don’t steal designs from someone else, you may reference them but don’t copy.
• Use clear names for your links, that way people know where they are going.
• Use a font style that is not heavily used.
• Don’t use colors that make your eyes go crazy.

Well that is my list of things not to do.  There are a lot of people out there that think colors are a really big thing and they are right.  If you have a site that catches someones eye and has a catchy name then people are going to come back to the site.

If you have anything to add to this list please comment away and I might add them to the list of don’ts.

• Web Directories
• Friends and Colleagues
• Personal Interest
• Blogging

Most people would look at this list and think what does that mean well I am going to tell you. Web Directories are places that you can submit your website and have it on display inside that companies database of sites. A lot of times these places have a paid and non-paid submission process. This means that if you take the free non-paid one you will be put on a list of maybe hundreds of sites that have to go through a inspection process to see if your site is a fit for the directory. This could take somewhere from 1 to 6 months. The reason it takes so long is because most of these places only charge like $5 to $25 for the paid submission and anyone who pays gets put at the front of the list.

Friends and Colleagues this is kind of self explanatory you meet someone and enjoy what they have so you put a link on your site to there stuff. This creates a backlink for them. If you look at the top of my site I have some of my colleagues and companies most of them are broken down into multiple links to more than just there home page. This will create a back link for more than just the main page.
Personal Interest this is one that you might say what does that mean. Well I give it this name because it means sites that you personally like. If you find a site that you enjoy give them a back link weather it be in a post or somewhere out of site. This will boost there rating and sometimes if you contact that specific person and ask them to put one on there site they might just because you did.

The last way that I create backlinks is blogging this is probably one of the best ways to create backlinks but also one of the less profitable. How you make backlinks is start posting on specific peoples site just with little comments like feedback and or other creative criticism. Once that person sees that you have been commenting on there site so much they will end up checking your site out and either you will get some great feedback or they might talk to you about backlinks.

Well I am just throwing this out there if there is anyone who has a site and would like a backlink send me a email or comment here I will check out your site and see what I can do about giving you a backlink somewhere on my site.

Working for an advertising agency we see and here about almost everything. I am a co-owner of Chosen Development, we do everything from websites down to walking dogs. We don’t do just Logo Designs or consider our selves to being a Logo Design Company. Some of the logos that we have created were Church Logo Designs and Business Logos. Most of the people who come to our company want a logo designed for something like $20 and yes we could do that but people really need to notice that if you spend $20 on a Logo Design you are going to get $20 worth of work.

What Logo Designs Should Consist Of

Alright if you look at some of the most popular Logo Designs some of these designs might of went for hundreds of thousands of dollars. For instance if you take some of the Sport Logo Designs like Nike for instance I don’t know off hand how much they paid for there Logo but everyone knows what it is. I can definitely tell you that it wasn’t a $20 Logo Design. Most of the really popular companies might have paid up to a couple million dollars for a Logo Design. There are a few companies out there that have paid little to nothing for their Logo. For instance one of the biggest companies in the world Google not that many people know Google’s Logo but it sucks you should look it up. For a Logo Design for a small company it is a good thing to pay for something that will be worth it. For a price perspective I would have to say that a good Logo would be between $500 to $1500 and for a cheaper logo you could spend anywhere from free to $100.

Some Really Bad and I Hope Cheap Logo Designs

We took a look at some of the really bad Logos that have been designed developed. Some of these might not be appropriate for kids but that is who most of these are focused towards.

Logos found by Chosen Development – Graphic Website Logo Design.

Here is some of the Logos that I have found that are bad.
Well to start one of the newest the Pepsi Logo.
New Logo –
Old Logo –
I don’t know about you but the new logo is horrible.

Here are some other bad Logo’s.




There are quite a few Logos out there that have probably been done for either free or by somebody that has no clue what they are doing. One of our biggest mottoes here at Chosen Development is let the professionals do what they are good at. Basically it like a plumber you aren’t going to call them and say what they should do because you know that they know that they know what they are doing. So with that Logo Design is something that every business needs but would you like to pay a little and get something like these or would you rather pay a little more and get something worth your money and time.