Mike McDermott

Top end website designers spend years in training schools and universities, learning the ins and outs of website design. This allows individuals to learn coding, how to place content, manipulate graphics and do just about anything else with the functionality and display of the website. While every company owner and boss has specific dreams of…

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Thank you for attending the “Never Sell another Website without Maintenance Plan” presentation at Wordcamp Dayton 2016. I hope that my presentation brought to light some ideas on how you can grow your business and build trust between you and your clients. A safe web is a fun (and profitable) web, and in the end,…

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This is an oft asked question that goes round and round the agency circles, among consultants when they are chatting at Panera over lunch, or in boardrooms before “the big guy” gets there. “Why is <insert company name> not willing to commit to achieve X amount of sales through the use of a full press…

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In 2014, you probably observed SEVERAL articles stating that SEO is dead, or at least on it’s way out the door. The articles really seem to focus on Google doing such a damn good job at what it does, and basically “out-gaming” the gamers (in this case SEO folks). The Google algorithm changes in and…

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What happens when people hack your shit? Well, when you have something that is hacked that is valuable to you, you probably are not too happy with the hacker. So, what happens when you are asked to, and actually paid to as a web developer; hack someone else’s shit? Well, this occurrence is becoming more…

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There’s a new kid on the block in the social network neighborhood called Tsū, and while it may look like Facebook, it has one big difference: it wants to share its advertising profits with its users.   Unlike Facebook, which gobbles up all of the ad revenue that your personal information creates,  Tsū (pronounced “sue”)…

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    Google has gone back to the drawing board yet again and has officially scrapped the horizontal carousel used to display local search results in favor of a new service called Pigeon. The  Local Carousel was released in June 2013 to optimize local business searches. For instance, if you were searching for “San Francisco…

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Social media marketing is a critical part of the strategic approach of any successful marketing plan. While there are many social platforms out there all competing for that balance between market-share and profitability (sound familiar?), Facebook is still well in the lead with 58% of the global market engaging with their site. So, when team…

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