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April 21, 2007

Narrowing My Focus: Tips For Starting A Web Design Business

Royalty Free Stock Nature Photo - Download It HereI read an article recently that helped me decide to do something I knew needed to be done. I’ve decided to change the focus of this blog. The former focus was “Free Web Design, Hosting, Browsing, Blogging, SEO, and Business Tips”. Now I’ve changed it to “Tips For Starting A Web Design Business”. I’m going to draw on my experience as a professional web designer to share information to help people wanting to set up a web design business for themselves. I want to show people who are getting started as web designers how they can organize their time and develop their talents to create a profitable business.

When I started my business a few years back, there wasn’t much information on the web focused on helping me get started. Though I knew enough about web design, I didn’t know much about starting a business, making contracts, copyright considerations, and lots of other things. I self-educated with time and experience, and got through it. Now I’ve closed the doors of that business and for the first time in eighteen years, am working outside my home for someone else. This site was converted from a web design business - to this blog.

Actually, I started blogging here in 2002, but have dropped most of the old content of that blog. It was originally started to keep track of my business development and when I moved the blog to the front page of the site, I decided the old content must go. I’m starting something new here now. I’ll be showing potential and beginning web design business owners how to get into business, find and enjoy working with clients, and prosper.

So that is my new focus, which will draw not only on my experience as a former web design business owner, but also on my skills as a paralegal and marketing analyst.

And by the way, that article that explained why I should narrow my focus is found here: Blogging in an Oversaturated Market is Usually a Poor Decision. Though there are scads of people sharing SEO and web marketing information on the web, there aren’t many web design business owners using their blogs to divulge the secrets of the trade to newcomers.


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April 19, 2007

Technorati Favorites Exchange

Free Web Design TipsAre you a blogger? If so, read on:

I am exchanging Technorati Favorites with other bloggers. This is something I learned about from Daryl W.T. Lau and Dosh Dosh.

The goal of the exchange is to help one another up toward the top-100 favorited blogs list at Technorati. This is an experiment to see what effects it has on overall blog traffic and popularity. I’m hoping, by doing this, to help other people who have web design or SEO blogs, but if you have any other type of blog you can join in too.

Here’s the rules of the exchange:

1. Click on this link and add me as your favorite at Technorati: Favorite Klamath Design

2. Leave a comment to this post telling me you favorited me. And leave me a link like the one above so I can favorite your blog; it looks like this: http://technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.YourBlogsURL.com

3. I will favorite your blog, and everyone who comes after can favorite it too.

Also if you want to host a favorites exchange in your blog, post something about it there and link to this posting. When I notice your post from trackbacks or Technorati, I’ll add a link to this posting, to your blog and link exchange post.

Have fun with it.

Here are some other Techno-Fave exchange postings. You can favorite them, and go to their exchange postings and ask them to favorite you back:

Daryl W.T. Lau - Add To Favorites
Dosh Dosh - Add To Favorites
Rishiraj - Add To Favorites
Blog@Fyais.Com - Add To Favorites

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Ramblings of an Undisturbed Mind - Add To Favorites
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My Online Collections - Add To Favorites

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Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil - Add To Favorites
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Teknobites - Add To Favorites
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More to be added soon…


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March 26, 2007

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Resources

SEO Resources

This book is highly recommended (over other SEO books).
- LJM


SEO Dictionary - if you’re not sure what a SEO word means, you’re likely to find the meaning in the SEO Dictionary.

SEO Specialists - comprehensive SEO resourcesSEO Chat - articles, tools, forum for SEO study

Number One In Your Niche - learn about SEO from Priya Shah.NicheBot Google Keyword Ranking Tool - where are you in the listing?

Guidelines for Successful Link Development - Sensible views on links from an SEO expert’s point of view.

GoRank’s SEO Tools - very informative search tools.

Search Engine Watch - search engine marketing super-site.

Search Engine Relationship Chart - verrrrrry cool!

Google Dance - lets you know when Google updates.

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Meta Tag Optimization Tips - what meta tags are and what they can do for you.


Why Quality Content is Key For Search Engines
- tips on writing great content for your website or blog.

Identifying SEO Experts - series of articles about what it takes.

Keyword Selection Tool - an online Overture tool for selecting the right keywords for your site.

Good Keywords - free Windows software for finding the perfect set of keywords for your web pages. Knowing the right keywords to target is very important because your site should provide what people are searching for.

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