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UPDATE: Testing Facebook Comments

Our adventure from yesterday exploring Facebook Comments on a WordPress site was far from over. If you’re using a Multisite install, you may run into some problems. Read on to find out more (if you’re so technically inclined).

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Testing Facebook Comments

We’re trying something new here at SCUBA Marketing: Facebook Comments. I’ll cover the pro’s and con’s of this exciting new tool for your SCUBA blog.

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SCUBA Blogging: A Starting Point

Switching to a SCUBA blog for your dive industry web site can be intimidating, but with this simple tip you can make the switch effortlessly. Face your apprehension and get a web presence that ranks quickly and keeps your divers coming back.

What are they pointing at?

Are you #1?

When someone goes to Google and searches for “scuba your geographic area”, are you number 1 in the results?

Did you realize that the number 1 result gets over 56% of the clicks? Number 2 only gets roughly 13%, number 3 gets less than 10% and it just goes down from there.

It’s 3 AM, do you know where your site is?

It’s 3 AM, do you know where your site is?

With the new Google Caffeine update, your SCUBA business web site ranking may have been impacted. Learn how to reliably check and find out the one key tool to keep your site ranking regardless of Google changes. Plus, automatic updates if your site goes down.

Your SCUBA Diving Center and the Mobile Web

This has been a topic I wanted to tackle for a while now, and an email from Penni yesterday finally turned up the heat to get it out to all of you. Mobile Web Usage Growth Let’s take a look at some numbers: According to Opera, just one of several mobile web browser providers, from…

Updated List of SCUBA Blogs

Updated List of SCUBA Blogs

I’ve updated the OPML file for the master list of SCUBA blogs. Thank you all for your submissions. If you want to get in on the next round, help me build a list of SCUBA blogs. One important note: I’m looking for real blogs. Twitter accounts and Facebook Pages, although they have RSS feeds, are…

Don’t Fear Comments on Your SCUBA Blog

In a timely series of events, someone contacted me asking if they should allow comments on their new SCUBA blog on the same day my friend Aaron over at Social Photo Talk wrote an article discussing being social on blogs and Twitter. Humans are social creatures and, now that a variety of tools are readily available, they…

3 Reasons Why You Need a SCUBA Blog

I’ve mentioned the concept of having a SCUBA blog regardless of your place in the SCUBA industry several times before. Heck, even the Voice of Google recommends using a WordPress blog. I’ve asked for your SCUBA blogs and have subscribed to each one. I’m going to dive more in-depth into blogging in the coming weeks…

What Your SCUBA Web Site Needs

What Your SCUBA Web Site Needs

While attending the DEMA Expo in Orlando, I sat in on a seminar regarding web design 101. I’ve been doing web design since before someone thought of adding a 101 to it, so I didn’t honestly expect too much out of it. Four Basic Buttons The single best recommendation that came out of the seminar…