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Blogs have become critical for search engine visibility in competitive markets. Besides that, they provide a great way of sharing information, comunicating with customers, and generally keeping your website content fresh.

I’ve written a new article to serve as a primer for business owners to figure out the value of their website, and analyze what they spend to get visitors to their website.

Any business that has a website shoud find it useful, whether you get 10 visitors a day or 1000. Determine the value of your site visitors here

The Google sitemap program may still be in beta, but it’s 100% effective, for them and for you, the owner of a website that wants to be found. You can easily get your entire site regularly crawled by the most powerful search engine the world, that is probably not doing it now. Why wouldn’t you? Oh, and did I mention that it’s free?

You know, Flash (animations) on websites can serve a purpose, but I really like the advice I found in this article.

There’s nothing I dislike more than a fully Flash designed website. I want just the facts in an easy to read manner. I don’t want to be impressed with your technology unless you’re a Flash designer or artist.