Yoast (WordPress SEO) This no-brainer is fast becoming a must for WordPress SEO. WP-reCAPTCHA & Login reCAPTCHA These two WordPress plugins have proven highly effective against comment spam and phishing expeditions. The installation is a bit cumbersome and it impedes visitor usability a bit, but I find it to be a necessary evil. Simple Google Analytics…
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99.94% of the time, I’m disappointed by apps. Like most things in life, it’s all fancy packaging wrapped around empty promises followed by crushing reality, lingering disappointment and reduced self-esteem for having been a big enough sucker to believe in anything to begin with. Every one-hundred-thousand apps or so, however, one comes along that is…
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Big congratulations to Big Frog for receiving the second Golden Ed Award. Big Frog, headquartered in downtown Dunedin, is rapidly opening new franchised custom t-shirt stores all around America. Leeward, Big Frog’s Chief Executive Frog, was kind enough to show 13 Guys Named Ed around the office and introduce us to his great team. Leeward…
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Starting mid-June, desktop fonts will be included with Typekit Portfolio, Performance, and Business plans, as well as paid Creative Cloud subscriptions. “We’re starting with 175 font families from 7 top-tier foundries. You’ll be able to sync them to your desktop and use them in all your applications for web mockups, print design, word processing, and more. This feature will…
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Tonight, as I do most nights, I am putting on my best “social butterfly” dress and hitting the town. No, it isn’t Ladies’ Night at Club TrendyName, but something even more important: a social event being put on by a networking group we belong to. I attend these events often and do my best to represent the rest…
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I’m the kind of guy who likes to trawl Google Analytics and Google Webmaster tools. I am very interested to see what people are looking for and where they’re coming from. I read this data like most people read Facebook; while watching crappy television. Every now and then, I run across a search term like…
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Congratulations, Southern Brewing & Winemaking, for receiving the first Golden Ed Award. We spent a lot of time thinking about the types of businesses that might deserve the award. After meeting Kelly and Brian from Southern Brewing, we knew we made the right choice. We knew Southern Brewing brought something unique to Tampa Bay. However,…
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Recently, a local restaurant group (Ciccio’s Restaurant Group) reached out to the public for a little re-branding nudge by renaming one of their locations. It is a modern Mexican cantina formerly known as The Lime, and sparing you the legal jargon explaining why, they needed a snazzy new name that would resonate with their lively and trendy clientel….
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Are you high? Probably not. I’m referring to your prices, and in fact they are probably not high enough. Think about it: Do all of your clients think you are the world’s greatest? Great. Do they all but throw their adorable Scooby Doo checks at you with a smile? If so, you’re doing it wrong….
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We are proud to have made the first official addition to our team of Eds. Amanda Slansky, our Account Manager, is a transplant from her hometown of Knoxville, TN. Leaving the mountain air for beachy breezes, she began nurturing her inner geekdom in 2010, working for a local SEO company. She has since honed her…
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