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Blog to the top, and Page Rank

Posted by Brian Mecham May 8th, 2008

Does blogging really work? Can it get your website to the top of the search engines? It can, but there’s no guarantees. The effect your blog has on the your search engine rankings can vary depending on what you are blogging about, how valuable it is and how much you are blogging. If you are [...]

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Rooms to Renew – Interior ReDesign Website

Posted by Brian Mecham April 17th, 2008

One of my latest creations is Rooms to Renew – www.roomstorenew.com. Rooms to Renew is a Utah owned business that does an excellent job at redesigning homes to make them more livable and look better. They also do real estate staging to help you sell your house quicker and redesign seminars. Contact Renae if you’d [...]

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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Tips from Weblife

Posted by Brian Mecham April 13th, 2008

There are some important factors that affect your website rankings with Google, MSN, Yahoo! and the other search engines. Outlined below are some do’s and don’ts of website optimization. Most of the items below apply mainly to Google (the most popular search engine) and partially to MSN, Yahoo! and all the other lesser search engines. [...]

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9 Branding Tips for Small Businesses

Posted by Brian Mecham April 11th, 2008

When I find useful information I like to share it.  There are thousands of blogs out there offering great tips on things from branding and marketing to SEO and blogging.  I bring some of the most valuable information together here. The following tips come from smallbusinessbranding.com. If you like this information you may want to [...]

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Ten of the Top SEO Tips

Posted by Brian Mecham April 10th, 2008

By David Leonhardt – www.seo-writer.com From the obvious to the “Hey-I-never-thought-of-that-great-idea-before”, here are 10 of the top 52 tips on how to optimize your website for its turbo-charge rocket ride up the search engine rankings. Be bold. Use the <b> </b> tags around some of your keywords on each page. Do NOT use them everywhere [...]

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Is Podcasting Right for You?

Posted by Brian Mecham April 2nd, 2008

A podcast is a collection of digital media files which is distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The term podcast, like “radio”, can refer either to the content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also termed podcasting. [...]

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What is Web 2.0?

Posted by Brian Mecham April 1st, 2008

The idea of Web 2.0 became notable after the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.  During that conference O’Reilly Media brainstormed the concept of Web 2.0 and what it means, here is an example: Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick –> Google AdSense Ofoto –> Flickr Akamai –> BitTorrent mp3.com –> Napster Britannica Online [...]

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Blog Project: 30 Traffic Generation Tips

Posted by Brian Mecham March 13th, 2008

Thanks to dailyblogtips.com for these great tips: First of all a big ‘thank you” for every one who participated. As I said before the number of entries surprised me (and the quality as well, I will definitely apply some of those tips myself). Now, without further delay, the 30 Traffic Generation Tips: 1. Sridhar Katakam [...]

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10 Cool Google Search Tips

Posted by Brian Mecham March 10th, 2008

From TechTracer.com Searching on Google can be a magical experience once you find out how to make your search queries efficient. By making efficient I mean using some tricks or the cheat sheet provided by Google itself to quickly find what you actually require. Having being hooked onto Google for a long time now, I [...]

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"We first hired Brian to touch up some of our HTML creatives and landing pages. After we got his 'rough draft' back we realized that we were going to start using him for all of our graphic and web design needs. His rough draft was head-and-shoulders above than the final products of others we had worked with. His punctuality makes organizing and managing a project less stressful, and overall I would highly recommend him for HTML/web work and graphic design."

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Who am I?

brian mecham utah web designer and seoWeblife websites are primarily designed and created by me, Brian Mecham, a 28-year old geek, husband and father of 3 boys. My love for computers and art while a teenager developed into my passion for creating websites. I've lived most of my life in Utah and serve clients nationwide and beyond. I specialize in front-end design & layout, WordPress-based websites & blogs, and Search Engine Optimization. Yes, I'm good at a whole lot of others things from building computers to audio/video production, but I spend most of my time messing around with XHTML and CSS code. Aside from family and work, I also have a passion for Liberty.