Over the last few months I’ve been debating about moving my sites from Wordpress to ExpressionEngine. I’ve really enjoyed working with Wordpress the last 4 years. It’s a fantastic CMS, but I always felt a little handicapped when it came to custom designs.

Hearing over and over again that ExpressionEngine is the designers’ CMS, I decided to give it a try. After wrapping my head around the completely different language and tags, it was pretty easy to jump right in.

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Whether you or I like it or not, social media is inching it’s way further in importance. The idea of social media isn’t anything new, but recent events have set into motion what could be heavy game changers for all developers. I’m of course referring to Google and Bing’s deal with Twitter and Facebook. While we don’t know yet what Google plans to do with these partnerships, Bing has provided a big hint as to what their plans for Twitter are.
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I have a question about back links. How do you get relavent back links without getting on link farms? I have been using twitter for a while and just started facebook. I was told to get a tinyurl and add a small fishing report on twitter and it would count as a backlink? I have written 5 articles on ezine but find that time consuming and did not help much.

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If your business either has a traditional brick and mortar store front, or your site can value by being associated with your location, then you can benefit from Geo Tags. If your location is irrelevant to your online success, then Geo Tags will be of little use to you.

Geo Tags are trivially easy to implement and they can help to improve your ranking results for searches specific to your area. This ultimately results in higher search rankings and increased targeted traffic to your site.

Does Google Use Them?
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How are your referral stats looking? Noticed more traffic from Bing lately?

According to a Nielsen report last month, Bing is growing faster than any other search engine. It was reported Bing had 10.7% of the total search market, up 2% from the month before. Yesterdays report from Hitwise suggests Bing has since dropped to around 8.96 percent.

So, somewhere around 8-10% perhaps.

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