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		<title>WordPress SEO Plugins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress is the greatest blogging platform on the web right now. With more and more website leaning to having a blog for SEO purposes, there is a big demand for the best SEO plugins. Luckily with as big as WordPress is there is a huge amount of developers more than willing to build a good [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WordPress is the greatest blogging platform on the web right now.  With more and more website leaning to having a blog for SEO purposes, there is a big demand for the best SEO plugins.  Luckily with as big as WordPress is there is a huge amount of developers more than willing to build a good SEO Plugin.  Most web pages that talk about WordPress plugins give there top 10 or 20 plugins.  Well I am not going to do that.  I am going to give you a list of plugins that I use on Shane Strong and other client websites.  Then I will give you a list of other popular SEO plugins.  As a Search Engine Optimizer I look for the new and best ways to do optimization.  My list of plugins I have found to work great and have worked with for a while now.</p>
<h3>Shane&#8217;s SEO Plugin List</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<p>1) All-In-One SEO</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/all-in-one-seo-image.jpg"><img src="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/all-in-one-seo-image.jpg" alt="all-in-one-seo-image" title="all-in-one-seo-image" width="450" height="285" class="size-full wp-image-1479" /></a></p>
<p>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 <a target="_blank" href="http://semperfiwebdesign.com/" title="All-In-One SEO Creator Website">Semper Fi Web Design</a></p>
<p>2) Google XML Sitemap</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/xml-sitemap-generator-image.jpg"><img src="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/xml-sitemap-generator-image.jpg" alt="xml-sitemap-generator-image" title="xml-sitemap-generator-image" width="450" height="281" class="size-full wp-image-1480" /></a></p>
<p>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 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/" title="Google XML Sitemap plugin">Arne Brachhold</a></p>
<p>3) SEO Smart Links</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/seo-smart-links-image.jpg"><img src="http://www.shanestrong.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/seo-smart-links-image.jpg" alt="seo-smart-links-image" title="seo-smart-links-image" width="450" height="242" class="size-full wp-image-1481" /></a></p>
<p>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 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/services" title="SEO smart links creator">Vladimir Prelovac</a>.</p>
<h3>Other SEO Plugins</h3>
<p>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.</p>
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<li><a target="_blank" href="http://cvs.aesinformatica.com/download/automatic-seo-links">Automatic SEO Link</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/">Head Space 2</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://yoast.com/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/">Meta Robots WordPress plugin</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow-case-by-case/">Nofollow Case By Case</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://techblissonline.com/platinum-seo-pack/">Platinum SEO plugin</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/">Redirection</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.francesco-castaldo.com/plugins-and-widgets/seo-blogroll/">SEO Blogroll</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-seo-for-paged-comments/">SEO for Paged Comments</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-friendly-and-html-valid-subheadings/">SEO friendly and HTML valid subheadings</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-friendly-images">SEO Friendly Images</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/spl/">SEO Post Links</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.netconcepts.com/seo-title-tag-plugin/">SEO Title Tag</a></li>
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		<title>Tools For Finding Keywords</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Search Engine Optimization there are many different things that you have to do to be successful. First off you have to know what you are doing. That is a given, but the most important thing that sets Optimizers apart is how well they find keywords/niches. As a web developer it is sometimes hard to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In Search Engine Optimization there are many different things that you have to do to be successful.  First off you have to know what you are doing.  That is a given, but the most important thing that sets Optimizers apart is how well they find keywords/niches.  As a web developer it is sometimes hard to do SEO for some sites.  A lot of the time you really don&#8217;t have a clue what you are doing the SEO for and the time that it would take you to look into it cost money.  So instead of taking the time to figure out what was written you really just skin through the article to find the major words.  Most of the time they are part of the title or are words that you might not have a clue what they mean.  I personally try to get a list of around 10-15 words from each article that I am doing the SEO for and then I do research on those words.  My research is to find my keywords from those 10-15 words.  This can sometimes be easy and all that you have to do is combine a few of them to make what you would think would be the best combination.  you can do this and be successful most of the time.  The rest of the time you really need to look into the vast amount of tools that there is out there to use.  Some of the tools out there are good and some are not so good.  What I have done for you is made a list of a couple of what I find to be the good ones.</p>
<h3>Shane&#8217;s Keyword Tool List</h3>
<p>1) Google Keyword Tool<br />
Well to start the best tool hands down has to be <a target="_blank" href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal">Google&#8217;s Keyword Tool</a>.  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.</p>
<p>2) Google Trends<br />
Google Trends really isn&#8217;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=&#8221;http://www.google.com/trends&#8221;>Google Trends to find keywords about topics that are popular at the time.</p>
<p>3) Word Stream<br />
What can I say about Word Stream.  I personally don&#8217;t use it that much because of Google&#8217;s wonderful system but if I am in need of a second opinion, so to say, I go <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wordstream.com/">here</a>.</p>
<p>4) Word Tracker<br />
Let alone <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wordtracker.com/">Word Tracker</a> 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.</p>
<p>I know that my list is not the biggest but I don&#8217;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.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If by chance you are in need of any 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. </p>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimization 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the best sites optimization is done with the most basic amount of SEO. What do I mean by basic well I am talking title tags, meta tags, and alt and title attributes. These four tags/attributes are really important in SEO. A lot of people say that search engines (GOOGLE) don&#8217;t use the keywords [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some of the best sites optimization is done with the most basic amount of SEO.  What do I mean by basic well I am talking title tags, meta tags, and alt and title attributes.  These four tags/attributes are really important in SEO.  A lot of people say that search engines (GOOGLE) don&#8217;t use the keywords meta tag anymore for positioning.  Well if they don&#8217;t then why use them?  The reason that I still use keyword is because even if GOOGLE doesn&#8217;t use them for positioning it still uses them as a reference point.  Keywords are pretty much used to help search engines with what you want them to crawl.  Your description meta tag is a really important on because search engines search it and compare it to the content of your page.  If things match up like say you are writing about the NBA Finals.  In your description you better have a part that says NBA Finals.  As for your title tag, it is by far weighed the most in search engines.  So when you are thinking about writing a article make sure to make the title really juice so to say.  You want it to be something that you would search for.  There is also a title attribute that you add to links and images.  This is really important for the person that you are linking to.  For instance if I was to link to a page about SEO.  I would want to make the title attribute have the website name and maybe the article I am talking about.  That way it gives the writers proper credit for there article and will help them in the long run with SEO.  The last one for the 101 session is the alt attribute.  This is used in images and is really important in a couple different ways.  It is defiantly important in SEO because the alt attribute tells search engines what the image is about.  Also it is important for handicapped people.  With the handicapped the alt attribute lets them know what the image is about.</p>
<h3>Placing The Tags and Attributes</h3>
<p>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:</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="html" style="font-family:monospace;">&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;This is your title tag&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;This is your descriptive sentance&quot;&gt;
&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;keywords&quot; content=&quot;These, Are, Your, Keywords,&quot;&gt;
&lt;/meta&gt;&lt;/head&gt;</pre></div></div>

<p>With these tags there aren&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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:</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="html" style="font-family:monospace;">&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;This is Your title attribute for a link&quot;&gt;for a link&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;img src=&quot;&quot; alt=&quot;This is your alt&quot; title=&quot;This is your title&quot; /&gt;</pre></div></div>

<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
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		<title>Breaking Alexa 500000 Rank</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to make money off a website, what is the most important aspect that advertisers look for? It is your traffic rank. Most advertisers look at sites to see what there Google PageRank and there Alexa rank are. Well the Alexa Rank weighs more heavily on the money aspect. If you have a site [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In order to make money off a website, what is the most important aspect that advertisers look for?  It is your traffic rank.  Most advertisers look at sites to see what there Google PageRank and there Alexa rank are.  Well the Alexa Rank weighs more heavily on the money aspect.  If you have a site that is in the top 100000 in the Alexa Rank that means you have a well trafficked site.  The hardest part about building your Alexa Rank is trying to find ways to get people to your site and continue coming to your site.  A really great way is to give away free stuff.  Everyone loves free things.  But in order to get people to find these free things you have to write about them and/or market them.  Learning the basics or SEO and SEM is a great way to get your site going and start getting continuous people to your site.  There are a ton of websites out there each one can become the biggest site in the world and have the most traffic.  It only take some well planning and a great strategy.</p>
<h3>How To Break The Top 500000</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Step One &#8211; Content Is King</h4>
<p>The biggest way to get more people to your site is to make it bigger.  Now I don&#8217;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.</p>
<h4>Step Two &#8211; Sitemap Submission</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<h4>Step Three &#8211; Meta Tags</h4>
<p>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 <a target="_blank" href="http://searchenginewatch.com/2167931" target="_blank">Search Engine Watch</a>.</p>
<h4>Step Four &#8211; Social Media</h4>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<h4>Step Five &#8211; Content Content Content</h4>
<p>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&#8217;t have content then you will not get many people.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If by chance you are in need of any 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.  </p>
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		<title>Figuring Out What To Blog About</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Figuring out what to blog about. That is one of the hardest questions most bloggers have to think about. The best thing to do is work on writing a couple posts in a series. Or you could write about a specific topic. Some blogs are easy because they have a very specific thing that they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Figuring out what to blog about.  That is one of the hardest questions most bloggers have to think about.  The best thing to do is work on writing a couple posts in a series.  Or you could write about a specific topic.  Some blogs are easy because they have a very specific thing that they post about.  For instance sports blogs, they are probably one of the easiest to post on.  That is because there is always different changes happening in the sports world.  Another easy one is celebrity gossip.  What I am trying to get at with this post isn&#8217;t to tell you what to blog about.  By no means you should blog about one thing.  The best way to blog is try out many different thing to blog about until you find what you like to blog about.  Also if you are into SEO or any other marketing strategies.  What you blog about can determine how much your site changes in the amount of visitors.  For example I primarily blog about SEO, SEM, WordPress, jQuery, and other web stuff.  This is some information that I enjoy to blog about and like to share my opinions and experiences with my readers.  The reason that you pick things to blog about is so that you site will gain visitors from what you blog about.  But if you choose to blog about anything and everything.  Then you will not find yourself gaining visitors and consistent followers.</p>
<h3>Shane&#8217;s Opinions</h3>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If by chance you are in need of any 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. </p>
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		<title>Marketing Your Business Online</title>
		<link>http://www.shanestrong.com/seo/marketing-your-business-online</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many different ways to market your newly-created start up business. You could go house to house handing out discounts to people. You could place ads in the local newspapers, or put up signs all over your drivable area and the list goes on. The difficulty is with those suggestions is that you can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are many different ways to market your newly-created start up business. You could go house to house handing out discounts to people. You could place ads in the local newspapers, or  put up signs all over your drivable area and the list goes on. The difficulty is with those suggestions is that you can only really reach out to your local area. Now if you are a small business, and you want to stay small and live off your local area, then cool.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Building A Website</h3>
<p>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 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bychosen.com" title="Chosen LLC - Web Development, Design, Marketing, Consulting , and More">Chosen</a>. 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Marketing Your Site</h3>
<p>Once you have yourself a website you need to market it. Now some people wonder what this means and ask &#8220;isn&#8217;t getting a website marketing.&#8221; Well yes but if you don&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Summary</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>Please check out Chosen.  If by chance you are in need of any 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.</p>
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		<title>Website Value Boost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a ton of ways to get more traffic to your site but really there are only a couple ways to build your sites value. How is your site measured by the amount of traffic it gets, how much it makes in profit in a given month, what its PageRank is. There is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a ton of ways to get more traffic to your site but really there are only a couple ways to build your sites value.  How is your site measured by the amount of traffic it gets, how much it makes in profit in a given month, what its PageRank is.  There is a lot of different ways to make your site valuable.  I prefer to do the easy way by how much your site makes in a given month.  The reason that I consider this easy is because you have so many different ways to go about doing this.  Most of these ways depend on how much traffic/popularity your site has.  One of the easiest ways is to put ads on your site.  You can choose from many different advertising companies.  This is where it gets hard because if your site does not have the traffic/popularity then most of these companies will not accept you.</p>
<h3>Google Ads</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Other Ad Companies</h3>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<h3>SEO Packages</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>If by chance you are in need of any 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.</p>
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		<title>Google PageRank Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Web Developer, Search Engine Optimizer and Search Engine Marketer, I go crazy when one of my sites gets a better Google PageRank. Now the real question is how powerful is your Google PageRank? Google has stopped using PageRank in there webmasters tools. Google feels that PageRank is not something that is of much [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a Web Developer, Search Engine Optimizer and Search Engine Marketer, I go crazy when one of my sites gets a better Google PageRank. Now the real question is how powerful is your Google PageRank?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;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. </p>
<h3>High PR Sites</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>PageRank Overview</h3>
<p>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.<br />
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</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Top 10 SEO Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you use for SEO? What do you consider the best tools? I have a list of SEO tools that I use daily. My list is a little more than 10 but I figured for simplicity I will give you the top 10 SEO tools that I use. The reason I am putting together [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do you use for SEO?  What do you consider the best tools? I have a list of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.rankpay.net">SEO tools </a>that I use daily.  My list is a little more than 10 but I figured for simplicity I will give you the top 10 SEO tools that I use.  The reason I am putting together a list of my top ten is because I see a trend from other SEO experts bot saying that I am a expert but I would like to be.  There are a ton of SEO tools out there that are free of charge and these tools are evolving at a rapid speed.  My big question with SEO is where will it go next.  Well what everyone really wants is the list so here it is.</p>
<h3>Top Ten SEO Tool List</h3>
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<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.searchenginegenie.com/" title="Search Engine Genie">Search Engine Genie</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.websitegrader.com" title="Website Grader">Website Grader</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" title="Google Adwords">Google Adwords</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" title="Google Analytics">Google Analytics</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3036" title="SEO Quake">SEO Quake</a></li>
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<li><a target="_blank" href="https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites" title="Site Explorer">SiteExplorer</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/trends" title="Google Trends">Google Trends</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/321" title="Search Status">Search Status</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.seomoz.org/tools" title="SEO Moz">seomoz.org</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.wordtracker.com/" title="Word Tracker">Word Tracker</a></li>
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<h3>What The SEO Tool Does</h3>
<p><b>Search Engine Genie</b> &#8211; 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.<br />
<b>Website Grader by HubSpot</b> &#8211; 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.<br />
<b>Google Adwords</b> &#8211; 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.<br />
<b>Google Analytics</b> &#8211; 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.<br />
<b>SEO Quake</b> &#8211; 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.<br />
<b>Site Explorer by Yahoo</b> &#8211; This is a useful tool for the yahoo search engine.  I prefer Google&#8217;s Analytics over this because it has more to it.<br />
<b>Google Trand</b> &#8211; 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.<br />
<b>Search Status</b> &#8211; I really enjoy using Search Status because of its simplicity.  I am a Firefox user and this is a Firefox plugin.<br />
<b>seomoz.org</b> &#8211; 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.<br />
<b>Word tracker</b> &#8211; 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.</p>
<h3>SEO Packages</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<h3>Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</h3>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>SEO Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is SEO and how can it help me? That is the question you should be asking your self if you have a web site. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. How do you get your site to the top of search engines? Well this is a really great place to start. SEO optimization can [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is SEO and how can it help me?  That is the question you should be asking your self if you have a web site.  SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.  How do you get your site to the top of search engines?  Well this is a really great place to start.  SEO optimization can improve the traffic of your site and the sales of your site.  Basically SEO is what happens when you tell search engines what exactly you want people to search and find you as.  Well some people say that this can be hard because there are so many sites out there that it is almost impossible to get to the top.  Well those people are wrong.  With some great planning and strategy any site can make it to the top of any search engine.  For a example if you search the word Chosen in Google you will get 169,000,000 hits for just the word Chosen.  Well one of the companies that I own is Chosen LLC.  One of our sites is chosendevelopment.com you will find it at around 7 or 8 and rising.  Now we just started doing SEO on our Chosen Development site about 3 months ago.  Yes we spent a lot of time and planing in order to get to where we are now.</p>
<h3>Practical</h3>
<p>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&#8217;s.  Well I am finally getting there after 5 months of hard work.  One thing that most people don&#8217;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.</p>
<h3>SEO Consists</h3>
<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;t try to learn SEO or teach your self SEO because you could become one of those experts.</p>
<h3>SEO Packages</h3>
<p>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 <a title="Web Design, Development, SEO, SEM, Marketing, Consulting, and Optimization" href="http://www.shanestrong.com/work-prices">Work Prices</a>.</p>
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		<title>Build A Website Traffic Jam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people look at their website and go why am I not getting traffic to it. Well if you just look at the site it won&#8217;t build any traffic. My question to you is would you like to have a traffic jam on your website. I would because that means my site is getting so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people look at their website and go why am I not getting traffic to it.  Well if you just look at the site it won&#8217;t build any traffic.  My question to you is would you like to have a traffic jam on your website.  I would because that means my site is getting so much traffic I am going to have to upgrade my servers.  Wouldn&#8217;t that be great so much traffic that your server crashes.  Most people have no idea on how to create traffic to their site let alone just doing that basics to gain traffic.  Well I am going to give you a breakdown of some of the basics to building traffic.  Just so you know building traffic takes time and sometimes money.</p>
<h3>Traffic Meta Breakdown</h3>
<p>Back in the day all traffic came from your meta tags and your keywords.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong these are still very useful but they don&#8217;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&#8217;t practical it is possible but when you search <strong>web design</strong> you get 343,000,000 that is how many pages are being crawled with the words <strong>web design</strong>.  Now I am not saying don&#8217;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 <strong>Lansing Web Design</strong> and <strong>Michigan Web Design</strong>.  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.<br />
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.</p>
<h3>Best Ways To Produce Traffic</h3>
<p>Here is a list of some really good ways to build traffic to your site.<br />
1) Submitting &#8211; You must submit your site to search engines.<br />
2) Use a favicon.ico<br />
3) Depending on what your site is about submit it to other sites with that kind of material.<br />
4) Have a lot of content.  This still has to be good content.  Pictures really bring in lots of traffic.<br />
5) Use your META tags effectively. <a target="_blank" href="http://webnet77.com/webstuff/optimize.html">META help</a><br />
6) Advertise with google or other advertising companies.<br />
7) Use Social Media by talking about your site.</p>
<p>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&#8217;t.  Building a vast amount of traffic takes time and some times money.</p>
<h3><a target="_blank" href="http://chosendevelopment.com">Website Design , Development, and SEO Marketing</a></h3>
<p>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 <a target="_blank" href="http://www.chosendevelopment.com">Chosen</a>. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.chosendevelopment.com">Chosen</a> 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.</p>
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		<title>Lansing Web Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selgon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once Michigan was known for their business in the car industry and they still are a little. We here at Chosen Development see a real need for some great Web Developers in the Lansing Area. Michigan is going down hill fast and it needs a little jump start. We believe that is going to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once Michigan was known for their business in the car industry and they still are a little.  We here at <b>Chosen Development</b> see a real need for some great Web Developers in the Lansing Area.  Michigan is going down hill fast and it needs a little jump start.  We believe that is going to be in the <b>Web Design</b> and <b>Development</b> industry.  Not a lot of people know that Lansing for as small as it is has quite a few <b>Web Design</b> and or <b>Development</b> businesses.  <b>Chosen</b> being one of them.<br />
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We were founded on the belief that God and <b>Jesus Christ</b> would lead us on the right path and we still feel that way.  Lansing Web Design has been going down in the last few months and I don&#8217;t know if it is because of the holidays but Lansing and Michigan as a whole needs a lift.  We here at <b>Chosen Development</b> are going to try to give Michigan the lift it needs we are currently building a few apps that we are hoping will bring us income and even enough that we can use it to help others in this time of need.  I really want to share what we are working on but I don&#8217;t want the idea&#8217;s to be taken so until we have them patented and ready to deploy all you will get is this.<br />
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I really hope that a lot of people start to follow me on the post because I feel that when these apps come out you are going to want to be the first to get them at the cheap price.  We are going to be pointing these apps mainly to big business but we are thinking about letting small businesses try them out for a small price.<br />
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These apps I believe will bring lots of money to Michigan and the Lansing Area especially in the Web Design Area.  I am praying for all you people out there who have lost your job and or will be soon.  Just remember all we can do is pray and keep looking, God will answer your prayers.  Thank You</p>
<p>Shane Strong<br />
Chosen Development</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selgon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have started to create WordPress themes on my off time that I am using to up my SEO and yes this article is going to be used to up my SEO. Now some people are going to ask how I am using this to up my SEO well if you read my other post [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have started to create WordPress themes on my off time that I am using to up my SEO and yes this article is going to be used to up my SEO.  Now some people are going to ask how I am using this to up my SEO well if you read my other post that I did a while back it explains so of the things that you can do for SEO.  On my site I have created many WordPress themes that are powered by wordpress.  All of my themes are IE7 and Firefox tested but not IE6 or other.</p>
<p>Shane Strong<br />
Chosen Development</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selgon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post to share with the many people out there that probably have the same problem that I had today. So instead of you spending all your time trying to figure out this problem I am going to share with you my solution. Well to start off you need to know my problem [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a post to share with the many people out there that probably have the same problem that I had today.  So instead of you spending all your time trying to figure out this problem I am going to share with you my solution.  Well to start off you need to know my problem I was creating a theme today and needed the nav links to be in a selected state when you were on that specific page.  I had no clue how to do this in WordPress so I spent about 4 hours of my day looking up this problem.  After that time I found the answer to my problem.  The answer I am going to be showing is for the traditional header.php file that holds most everyone&#8217;s nav bar or your header links.  All you have to do to have your page links to show in the nav and get them to be at a selected state as followed:</p>
<p>This part is for your Home Page so if you don&#8217;t want your home page than just don&#8217;t add this into your code.</p>
<p>&lt;li id=&#8221;home&#8221; &lt;?php if(is_home()) { ?&gt; class=&#8221;selector&#8221; &lt;?php } ?&gt; &gt;&lt;a href=&#8221;&lt;?php echo get_settings(&#8216;home&#8217;); ?&gt;&#8221;&gt;Home&lt;?php echo $langblog;?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;</p>
<p>This is for the other pages that you have in WordPress.</p>
<p>&lt;?php wp_list_pages(&#8216;title_li=&#8217;);?&gt;</p>
<p>Now all you have to do to get these links to be in a selected stage is add a little code to your css code which is as followed.</p>
<p>This is for home.</p>
<p>Your ID like #nav Then li.selector a {color: ###;}</p>
<p>This is for other pages.</p>
<p>Your ID like #nav Then li.current_page_item a {color: ###;}</p>
<p>Now some people like to have there categories do this same thing. Well all you have to do for that is change wp_list_pages to wp_list_categories so that it can list the categories.  Then just change your css code from li.current_page_item to li.current-cat and you are finished.</p>
<p>If you have any questions about this just leave a comment of go to my Contact Page for my email.</p>
<p>Shane Strong<br />
Chosen Development</p>
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		<title>Helping your site get better?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>selgon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Powered by WordPress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chosen]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shane Strong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well as many people can see this title really does not make since but to those of you that know what SEO or Search Engine Optimization is then this title will make perfect since. See now in order for this to really do some SEO on my site I have to have this post say [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well as many people can see this title really does not make since but to those of you that know what SEO or Search Engine Optimization is then this title will make perfect since.</p>
<p>See now in order for this to really do some SEO on my site I have to have this post say something about my keywords.  Well these are my keywords right at the current time Chosen Development, ChosenDevelopment, Powered by WordPress, shane, strong, shane strong, text messaging online, SEO, Search Engine Optimization, and Chosen.  The reason for some of these keywords can explain them selves like all of the Chosen, ChosenDevelopment, and the Chosen Development this is the start up company that I work for and in order for its site to get better we need to get the home page in the top searches so by having the word Chosen in my post I am upping the SEO of the Chosen site and my site at the same time.  Now if you look that all of the Chosen words are a link and that ups the SEO even more.</p>
<p>Well if you keep looking at the keywords in this post you will see some like Powered by WordPress and some people would think why would he have that as a keyword or even the Text Messaging Online.  Well in order to do some good or great SEO on your site you have to know what keywords that you can use to make it to the top of that key word.  Now think Powered by WordPress this is a weird keyword buy it gets over a couple hundred thousand hits a month so now with me having Powered by WordPress in my site the SEO for that search will slowly take me to the top of a search when someone searches for Powered by WordPress.  The Text Messaging Online keyword this is in relation to the Text Messaging widget I created on my site.  Some of the others like Shane, Shane Strong, and ShaneStrong are just ones that will lift my name to the top of searches.  Now people should know the keywords are not everything to SEO even if you get the best keywords.  In order for you to get to the top of the list you either have to do something like this were you create a lot of posts to up your SEO or you can pay search engines like Google or Yahoo to put you at the top.  So if you would like to up your Search Engine Optimization then get posting or open the wallet and dish out the money.</p>
<p>Probably the best link to use to check your SEO is <a target="_blank" title="Website Grader" href="http://www.websitegrader.com" target="_blank">Website.Grader.com</a>.  There are a lot of SEO sites out there but this one breaks down your site in many different ways.  Thank you to all the viewers and if you have any questions dont hesitate to comment or go to my Contact Page where you can get my email.  I am going to attempt to talk about SEO almost once a week if you would like to keep in touch.</p>
<p>Shane Strong<br />
Chosen Development</p>
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