How is your website faring right now?

Grade your website now!Do you really know how your website fares?  Check out Website Grader and they’ll give you a quick overview that is really useful in the design and maintenance of your website.  Along with the overview, they also give tips on how to improve your weaker areas.

We must never underestimate the value of creatively and regularly maintaining our online reputation.  Content is what people look for – and if it’s not relevant, useful and current, people aren’t going to read it.  Google keeps track of how many people read your pages AND whether or not they come back again.  Hence, you want people to be regularly interacting with your site in order to boost your rankings.

Twitter and Facebook links are two of the best ways to improve the interactivity of your site.  Website Grader also has an awesome tool called Tweet Grader – and as the name suggests, they will give you a useful overview of your twitter accounts.

It’s always good to get a benchmark for where you are so that you can ensure that you keep growing.  ORM is an ongoing and sustained effort to build and maintain your online presence.

I think, therefore I blog.

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A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website.  Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.  Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web Pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art, photographs, videos, music, and audio.  Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

<taken from wikipedia>