One of the biggest failings many small businesses fall into with Search Engine Marketing is overestimating their name recognition, what could be called 'brand awareness'.

If you have a small business (let's call it "Betty's Bakery") in an area with even a reasonable-size population, you can rest assured that no-one knows who you are.

Beautiful icons are the easiest way to improve your blog or website design. Below we have compiled a list of 30 beautifully designed, free High quality Sets of Social Media Icons such as digg icons, stumbleupon icons, reddit icons, twitter, RSS feed icon, facebook icons and many more for your websites.  If you have more please share with us in comment section so we can add them in future posts.

I've been creating websites for over 10 years and have always strived to have pages load as quickly as possible (most pages on this site are under 300kb)

I'm going to cover some of the tools available to web designers for optimizing their Joomla site.  Most will help non Joomla users as well.

It seems like times are always tough for small businesses, but no time is worse than during a recession. During a recession, many businesses try to cut back on as much as possible, but when does cutting back start to hurt the company? One of the places this question is most often applied is to the question of SEO. Should a small business pay for SEO when money is tight?