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Meagan Vitek
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Juliette Cook
Question and Answer regarding placing surrounding suburbs in the footer area for google
question that Client has for us –
She wants to place in the footer -“serving [specific suburbs]”, Atlanta is a large metropolitan area made up of many suburbs, and clients may be searching for their own suburban area.The question is – How does this work in google – should/can a client in a large suburban area display all areas in the footer or in the text. How does this work with search engines?
Answer from Becky:
Yes, it is fine. It may help her be found for longtail searches for those areas.
She still won’t show up in a suburb for big terms like counseling, therapy, therapist, etc. but if someone were to type in “how to recover from an affair sandy springs” she may show up.for those of you who are like, what are longtail searches – i looked it up: http://www.wordstream.com/long-tailnot sure if that is the best definition but it gives you an idea. -
Becky DeGrossa
Just learned about a site that has neat logos that you can buy and make modifications to them. For mods, you can send to someone on fiverr (or even Julia) to change colors or title and tagline.
GraphicRiver.net
See here for demo: http://screencast.com/t/MPOK7SFBJmSI
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Becky DeGrossa
Document walking clients through HOW to sign up for Elastic Email and how to purchase the right credit package ($20 one).
How to Open and ElasticEmail Account and Purchase Credits
1. Sign up for an account and watch for the confirmation email. Once confirmed, you will be taken to this screen: http://screencast.com/t/Ns1gUMbuSX
2. Fill that out, and from there, you can purchase credits by clicking here: http://screencast.com/t/ZQdcVksAVykc
3. On the next screen, choose the $20 option. http://screencast.com/t/P0XWI87PKkS -
Chelsea Raubenheimer
Comments about Spam
A little info on Spam Mail…
It can come from two places. Comment spam (if they have comments activated on their blog) or Contact form spam. In either place (or both) we can add a captcha to slow down the bots. It won’t eliminate it totally, as some of the bots can figure out the captchas, but if that keeps happening to enough extent that the therapist is fed up, we can even do more sophisticated captchas that the bots haven’t’ figured out how to break yet. There are so many little things like this that we can do that we could easily add another $500 to each therapist’s site in labor. So, I’d rather they ask for it when they’re sick of the spam. The good news about getting spam (if they didn’t’ used to) is you can tell them it’s proof that they’re now more visible!
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Chelsea Raubenheimer
WordPress Training Documents from BDA Class
WordPressforWebsiteOwnersDay1-0514
WordPressforWebsiteOwnersDay2-0514
WordPressWhatToLookForInATheme0514
Here are all the tools that I got from the BDA WordPress Class- check them out!
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Mohammad Bayezid
Great tools and information….
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Becky DeGrossa
Post on sending out newsletters with Mail Poet – Becky demoing this process — sending a newsletter in less than 5 minutes. http://www.counselingwise.com/monthly-newsletters-in-5-minutes-or-less/
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Becky DeGrossa
Heard this is a great photo editing tool. Supposedly really easy. I have not used it so can’t vouch, but thought I’d pass it on.
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Chelsea Raubenheimer
Checking photo size with Jing
Hello peeps,
Becky asked me to add this to the P2. Another way to check exact dimensions of a slider or placeholder photo on a site is to use Jing. Click the image button and slide the crosshatch over the photo. In the bottom right corner of the box should be the exact dimensions of that photo in pixels. I use this to determine what photo size to purchase for my clients. I think on most of our websites the width of the slider is 960px, so I always choose photos with a width that is just a tad bigger so I know they won’t stretch.
Hope that helps.
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Chelsea Raubenheimer
How to edit homepage meta
Hey guys!
This was an issue that was brought up in our last meeting–> How to edit homepage meta on a homepage that is not actually a page with content, but rather populated by excerpts from the specialty pages. I already showed this to Jessie who is probably the only one that really needs to worry about this since she does SEO, but yea.. here is a Jing.
Mohammad Bayezid is discussing. 
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