http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:08:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the NFL playoffs and BCS bowl games dominating January sports websites and radio, it's definitely time to lead a blog with a bit of footballese. How many of you watch "Inside The NFL" on HBO? For those of you who (like many of us) can't keep the names of all ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=30 Confucius say person without guts to affix name to rantings should be not be permitted to publish same in alleged encyclopedia. Thank you for that, Confucius.  You're quite right as usual.  The recent news that Google plans to introduce a community-based virtual encyclopedia in which the truth or falsity of the ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=29 "Location, location, location." Isn't that what they always say, those retail gurus.  Location.  Location.  Location. I t's where you are.  A street address, a mall storefront, a search-engine position.  Those are all locations and whether they're good locations or bad ones will have a major impact on the success or failure ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=28 One of the most common questions every legitimate, high-quality website designer, content writer or search-engine optimizer gets asked is this:  What about the people who advertise they'll do the same thing you do for the price of a Super Sonic Cheeseburger without the cheese? The generic answer to that question -- ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=27 They, whoever they are, say a picture is worth a thousand words. But they almost never add that a word -- frequently even a very small short word -- is frequently worth a thousand pictures. Consider the extremely short, easy-to-spell, single-syllable word "free."  Think of a picture of a product, any ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=26 "Choose your words carefully, mister." Isn't that what John Wayne, Gary Cooper and all those other cowboy stars used say as they were pointing their Peacemakers at the bad guys?  Or is that backward?  Maybe it was the villains who said "choose you words carefully" to the heroes they'd drawn down ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=25 The real benefit of capitalism, as opposed to any other "ism", is competition.  Without competition in the marketplace blank DVD discs would be five bucks instead of five cents and you could, if you were lucky, afford to make maybe four calls a month on your cell phone.  Nowhere is the ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=24 Here's a cyber-variation on a "cheerful" bit of conversation frequently employed by coaches on the first day of practice, drill sergeants at the beginning of boot camp, and college orientation lecturers who, despite their numerous degrees and pedigrees, haven't been able to think of anything better to tell incoming freshmen ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=23 Price is what you pay, value is what you get. -- Warren Buffett This is what our FAQ page has to say about price: Our rates are the most cost-effective in the business. That said, there are a lot of amateurs, wannabes, and non-English-speakers wandering around cyberspace peddling dollar-store-priced web content hastily concocted ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=22 Website articles work.  They provide valuable, often interesting, and frequently compelling information that help turn surfers, browsers, and "looky-loo" shoppers into buyers.  Articles -- high-quality, relevant articles -- also make websites a more attractive search-engine "buy" because adding them satisfies the engines' preferences for "fresh, rich" content. So the question is ... http://www.getwebcontent.com/blog/?p=21