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By Mike McCready on November 24, 2009
It’s kind of ironic that I’m writing a blog post about unplugging from technology, but this has been on my mind lately, so I thought I would share it.
This has been a year of transformation and growth for our web department and for myself. We are tapping into new technologies and methods that we haven’t [...]
Posted in Marketing, Social Media, Tips & Tricks, Web Strategy | Tagged Business, Communication, HigherEd Web, Internet marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, strategy, unplug, Web Design and Development
By Mike McCready on November 12, 2009
PDF files have been around for a long time and Google has been indexing PDF files for almost as long. Unfortunately, some basic best practices still go over looked to ensure proper indexing of PDF files. Just do a Google Search for PDF files, and you will see a lot of search results with irrelevant [...]
Posted in SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Data Formats, Google, Microsoft Word, PDF, Portable Document Format, Search Engine Optimization, search results, Searching, SEO, serp
By Mike McCready on October 21, 2009
In my role as Web Services Manager at a higher education institution, I lead a web team of three (including myself). For a large institution, that is a small team. No matter the size of your web team, you’ve probably asked yourself, ‘What should our web team do?’ I’ve been wondering that myself. I’ve been [...]
Posted in Web Strategy | Tagged competencies, Internet marketing, Online advertising, Promotion, Search Engine Optimization, Social Network, Web Strategy, web team, World Wide Web
By Mike McCready on October 5, 2009
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be an overwhelming task, but it doesn’t have to be. Once you’ve identified the strategy for your website (eg. goals, audience, messages, etc.), you can then start by building your keyword list.
We will be going through this exact exercise over the next few months as we work not only to [...]
Posted in Analytics & Measurements, Marketing, SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Google, Keyword, Keyword research, Promotion, Search Engine Optimization, Web search engine, Web Strategy
By Mike McCready on September 21, 2009
Where I work, we are embarking on a web realignment (redesign) project for our main web presence. From the very beginning we’ve had the mindset that this approach had to be strategic in nature. I remember back in the day when designing websites it was enough to be cool and eye-catching and was very creative [...]
Posted in Marketing, Redesign, Web Strategy | Tagged Advertising, Communication, Internet marketing, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Redesign, Search Engine Optimization, strategy, Web Design and Development, Web Strategy, Website
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