Are you blogging?

"A blog (a contraction of the term "weblog") is a type of website, 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.

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 for 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 (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketches (sketchblog), videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog)

Your Plan B Company blogs - you are reading it here now :)

We would like to know YOUR blog.
Email me your blog address so we can add it to our reading list in the office.

If you are not blogging, let us know if you would like help setting one up for your website. It is a proven online marketing tool and easy to use!
(You can even publish to a blog through your email.)
Check it out at https://www.blogger.com/start

See you online at the blogosphere!

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NEW SITE! KRUZINUSA.COM

Your Plan B Company proudly presents KruzinUSA.com!
If you like cars, you will like this site! And if you are geeks like us, you will love the Drupal work we did to make a public and members only content rich website for this fun client.


KruzinUSA.com is a site designed to pull together into one location the various, often fragmented segments of the local hot rod community:

• hot rod owners
  
• professional builders
  
• event organizers
  
• local car clubs

KruzinUSA.com has been created by hot rodders for hot rodders. By intent it is aimed at the local grass roots of this community. Its mission is to provide a forum that will let local hot rodders from all across the country show their rides, their skills, their creativity to the entire hot rodding community.

Go ahead, I know you want to go look at the cool cars!
While you are there, login and join in the community.
See you online at KruzinUSA.com!

SEO refresh

"Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a website from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a website web presence.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A few hints for getting indexed:
- do you have a site map?
- are your meta tags in your site pages (code)?
- is your site following Google's webmaster guidelines?
- if you have a graphical nav, do you offer a text option?
- are your "title" elements and "ALT" attributes are descriptive and accurate?
- are you using clear keywords in your site content (text).
(note: think about the words users would type to find your pages, and make sure that your site actually includes those words within it!)

If you think it is time to refresh your site's SEO, give us a call today to set up a review meeting. Call 773-665-2552

SOCIAL NETWORK CHECK IN

Do you have a MySpace, Flickr, LinkdIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. account?
Have you been keeping them current? Are they linked on your home page for users to find them easily? Keeping them current with updates?

Some great resources for marketing and social networking:
The Social Etiquette Of Social Networking
Social Media and SEO -- Friends with Benefits?
Top Ten Secrets to Social Network Superstardom
What makes a Successful Marketing Campaign on Social Networks?
The top 10 hottest Social Networking Widgets
Get Started Building Widgets

If you need help getting yours started or keeping it going, feel free to call us.
We can set them up, add content and/or connect them to your site.

You can follow us at the following places:
Your Plan B Company Blog
Your Plan B Company Twitter
JameyB LinkdIn
DavidB LinkdIn
DavidB and JameyB's Flickr
You can search for us on Facebook and MySpace too!