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I am a NY native originally from Albany, NY. I am currently living in NYC and loving every minute of it. I graduated from NYU with a liberal arts degree. In my spare time I enjoy cooking (and tasting) great food, skiing in Vermont, writing helpful articles, or just hanging around the house with a good book.

[INFOGRAPHIC] About Steel: Facts, Recycling, and a Ton of Information

Written By: Katie Williams in Infographic

Source: Steel Infographic Designer: Infographic by Buildings Guide About: There is steel in so many things that we use ever day. But have you ever wondered how steel is made, how it's recycled, about the steel production throughout the ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Recycling Guide and Green Facts

Written By: Katie Williams in Infographic

Source: Recycling Facts and Information Designer: Infographic by BuildingsGuide.com About: This infographic gives some great information about recycling. It includes facts about the different materials that can be recycled, what Americans throw away, as well as the top 10 greenest ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] Tornado Guide and Safety

Written By: Katie Williams in Infographic

Source: Tornado Guide: Facts, Safety, Information Designer: Infographic by BuildingsGuide.com, a metal building kit and steel building resource. About: This infographic gives some great information about tornadoes. It includes fun facts about the tornadoes such as how they ...

[INFOGRAPHIC] How Much Does SEO Cost

Written By: Katie Williams in Infographic

Source: SEO Cost of Services Designer: Infographic by AYTM About: This infographic gives some great information about pricing structures across many different size agencies. Near the end of December 2011, SEOmoz ran a survey on their blog asking consultants ...

10 Best Resources for Entrepreneurs

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

1. Small business association The small business association remains the best asset for anyone jumping into the field of entrepreneurship. They offer planners, services, tools and local resources. In addition to their content on their website, the entrepreneur can also access ...

Leadership Types, Styles, and Systems

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

What are Different Types of Leadership Styles? Since development of the hierarchy and infrastructure associated with modern corporations, the concept of the supervisor, or boss or direct superior, has been perceived in a number of dubious and satirical ways in both ...

How to Interpret Online Polls and Surveys

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

Polls are made up of a number of questions that endeavor to determine what the general public's consensus is on a product, a person, a group, or even a proposed idea. In fact, a poll can be taken on just ...

Cloud Computing History and Benefits

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is the use of delivering hosted services over the internet. Information is provided to the computers involved on demand. With cloud computing you're accessing services ...

New Page Creation Checklist Guide For SEO

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Process

Below you will find a basic SEO checklist for new page creation. It acts as a is a reference and guide to ensure that each new page contains all the basic SEO elements. Download The Page Creation PDF Here

Top Online Marketing Articles By Visits For October, 2011

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

In case you missed some of these articles, Linchpin SEO has put together the top 10 online marketing articles, tips and research for October by traffic and page views. These research articles were published both in October and dates prior, ...

Tablet Usage Data, Stats, & Facts from Forrester’s Survey Q3 2011

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

A tablet PC is a tablet-sized computer that also has the key features of a full-size personal computer. A tablet PC is essentially a small laptop computer and rubs an operating system such as Android and Chrome OS, iOS, and ...

SEO Tips for Law Firms and Laywers

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Web Design Case Studies

Local SEO and web design in themselves can be challenging, but not as challenging as web design and seo for law firms. In most large cities such as Chicago, New York, Houston, Raleigh, or San Francisco, web design and seo ...

Week of October 2nd 2011: Top News Stories in Search Marketing

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

Below you will find top news stories in search marketing from around the web for the week of October 2nd 2011. Please add your own in the comments if you have any. Former Google Search Reps Start Search Quality Alliance Former ...

Beginners Guide To CSS (Cascading Style Sheets Tutorial) With Examples

Written By: Katie Williams in Web Design Articles

What is CSS Web Design? CSS has existed in one form or another since the beginnings of SGML in the 1970s. The first book about CSS1 was published in 1996 ...

Top Online Marketing Articles By Visits For September, 2011

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

In case you missed some of these articles, Linchpin SEO has put together the top 10 online marketing articles, tips and research for September by traffic and page views. These research articles were published both in September and dates prior, ...

Best Job Hunting Resources and Staffing Agencies To Find The Perfect Job

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

With so much information on the worldwide web for job seekers, a person can easily become overwhelmed. Knowing what information is truly accurate and reliable is of the utmost importance when a person is seeking a new job. Below is ...

Top Online Marketing Articles By Visits For August, 2011

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

In case you missed some of these articles, Linchpin SEO has put together the top 10 online marketing articles, tips and research for August by traffic and page views. These research articles were published both in August and dates prior, ...

Bronto Software Company Information

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

Corporate Address and Contact Information for Bronto Software Bronto Software, Inc. Washington Building 324 Blackwell Street, Suite 410 Durham, North Carolina 27701 Official Website Telephone & Email In the U.S. and Canada: 1-888-BRONTO1 Worldwide: 1-919-595-2500 Fax: 1-919-595-2499 Public Relations Susan Wall 1-919-595-2500 pr@bronto.com Services & Support 1-919-595-2500 Ext. 2 Sales Contact 1-919-595-2500 Ext. ...

The Rivers Agency: Advertising Agency In Chapel Hill, NC

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

What is The Rivers Agency Rivers Agency is a full-service design agency located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Services offered include public relations, marketing, print and web advertising, print and web graphic design, web programming and content management systems. What is ...

SEO: Canonical Tags, Robots.txt, Meta Robots

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Process

Robots.txt Most search engine spiders only visit the places on a website where they have permission to crawl. When spiders access a site, they check a special file in the root directory of the web server called “robots.txt”. This file is ...

Video Optimization: Process For Optimizing Videos

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Process

Optimizing Videos On Video Search Engines Video file should be keyword focused Title of video page should be keyword focused Description of video should be well written and focused on the keywords, much like any other piece of content. When linking out to YouTube ...

Page Deletion Process: What To Think About When Deleting A Page

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Process

If a page needs to be deleted, a reason for deletion should be created to help determine if there needs to be a mapping to a new page or if the page should be archived. Why? A page that is ...

Facebook Company Information

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

Corporate Headquarters of Facebook, Inc. Palo Alto, California, U.S. (main headquarters; serves the Americas) Dublin, Ireland (headquarters for Europe, Africa, Middle East) Seoul, South Korea (headquarters for Asia) Wellington, New Zealand (headquarters for Oceania) Hyderabad, India (Headquarters for South Asia) History of Facebook, Inc. Mark Zuckerberg ...

A Few Basic Rules To Follow When Writing A Marketing Email

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

There are a few rules you might want to follow to get a good response without getting slapped with a SPAM warning when writing good email marketing copy. The three components that need to be personalized are the subject line, ...

Cheap Professional Website Templates, Are They Good For SEO and Web Design

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

Generic Professional Website Templates Why Does My Site Look The Same As Theirs? We have all seen those websites that have pre-made professional website templates and offer them to you for crazy lowball prices, or even the ones that are more expensive ...

List of Words Ending in CO That Could Be Used As Domain Names

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

So I was reading a post on the new Google URL shortener and thought it would be interesting to find words ending in "co" to see if there were any words which would be completed by adding a .co domain ...

How to Add Custom Metadata to a File

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

Different file types and programs will have different means of adding metadata about those files. However as more and more information, in all conceivable areas from personal to commercial to academic to legal, gets stored electronically, the need for being ...

How To Write a Job Performance Evaluation

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

The first step in most job performance evaluations is for the worker to assess themselves; always a challenging and daunting proposition. The first key is to be professional, honest and keep focus entirely on how one's performance has met the ...

How To Structure Performance-based Pay

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

The traditional pay model involves compensating staff members according to their grade level, education, experience and level of responsibility. By contrast, with performance- or competency-based pay, an employer determines a staff member's pay based on that person's success in performing ...

Top 10 Digital Advertising Agencies in the US and UK

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

A digital agency is an agency whose primary focus is meeting the clients goals and objectives by utilizing the online space and the assets it offers. These distribution channels can include such things as SEO, SEM, Social ...

How Many Pages Should I Add To My Site At One Time?

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Articles

Q: “Ok let me explain my question. I own a few large sites 50,000 urls plus on each. We get large chunks of content from providers and traditionally we have added it all at one time. Recently we have seen ...

How Do I Do SEO Myself?

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Articles

I think that there are alot of things that one has to learn before doing seo themselves. Yes there are many great books that you can find that will give you insight into the science behind SEO, which will get ...

Why Submit Your Sitemap To Google

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Articles

What is a submitted or off-site Sitemap: A Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Submitting a Sitemap helps make sure the search engines know about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not ...

10 Tips For A Smooth Site Design Process

Written By: Katie Williams in Web Design Articles

1. Determine the goals of the new site will it be an informational site, a lead gen site, or an e-commerce site? The goal of the site will impact what keyword themes you will focus on, how the site architecture is ...

How Piracy Laws Affect Internet Usage

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

The protection of copyright pertains to the prevention of all aspects of copyright infringement or violation and the corresponding penalties incurred if illegal copying occurs. Piracy laws fall within the same category as copyright laws. With the growth and popularity ...

How Data Compression Works

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

Data compression is the process of encoding information to reduce the number of bits that are used to represent the information. Data compression can be used for any type of data: text, audio, graphic images, video, etc. Reducing the size ...

Online Retailing 2011 Stats: Marketing, Social, Mobile

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

Below you will find a brief summary of the June 3, 2011 The State Of Retailing Online 2011: Marketing, Social, And Mobile from Forrester. Online growth accelerates for multichannel retailers Forrester Research reported that annual web sales in 2010 totaled $176 billion, an ...

Best Web Design Studios In The US

Written By: Katie Williams in Web Design Articles

Onwired 107-B Kilmayne Dr Cary, NC 27511 Web Design Website Onwired is a Cary, NC based design studio that is made up of some leading designers and interactive marketers such as Tony Chester, Jon Norris, Jen Chester, Chris Harrison, Megan Stout, Troy Thompson, ...

How Does Google Rank Pages: Possible Ranking Factors

Written By: Katie Williams in SEO Articles

Domain Domain age Length of domain registration Domain registration information hidden/anonymous Site top level domain Site top level domain Sub domain or root domain? Domain past records Domain past owners Keywords in the domain Domain IP Domain IP neighbors Domain external mentions Geo-targeting settings in Google Webmaster Tools Server-side Server geographical location Server reliability ...

Google Turns Up Local, Unique Content, SEOmoz Hiring

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

Google Dials Up Localization Big Time by Aaron Wall at SEOBook SEOBook Article Google Implies Local Demand Based on User Location and it appears that Google has just dialed up search result localization dramatically. How much longer will it be ...

Suite101 (www.suite101.com) Review

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

Canada-based Suite101.com does not publish the most content of all of the online writing sites, but the website still publishes nearly 500 original articles every day. Unlike many websites that offer writers compensation via options, Suite101.com compensates its writers ...

AOL Seed (www.seed.com) Review

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

Seed.com is a relative newcomer to the online content distribution industry, and is part of the AOL network. The launch of its own content production makes sense for AOL, which has many of its own sites that require a ...

Demand Studios (www.demandstudios.com) Review

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

Demand Studios is the online publishing house owned by online content conglomerate Demand Media. Demand Studios is responsible for the content produced on a variety of well known websites, including eHow.com, Livestrong.com, GardenGuides.com, Answerbag.com, among others. The articles seen ...

Associated Content (www.associatedcontent.com) Review

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

Associated Content started out as a small website that encouraged anyone to sign up to start publishing their own articles on the web. After five years, and growing to more than two million pieces of content online, Associated Content ...

Facts and Benefits of Facebook’s New Profile Page

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

Overview of the New Profile Facebook, which is one of the most popular social networking sites, recently introduced a new profile to make the site easier for you to tell stories and learn about friends. Introduction to The New Profile The introduction to ...

The History of Character Animation

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

The art of character animation is one that takes lots of dedication, practice, and training. Character animation has evolved over the last 100 years, from Gertie the Dinosaur, hand drawn by Winsor McCay in 1914, to today's highly technical ...

Curriculum Vitae And Resources About Writing a Cover Letter

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

What is a Curriculum Vitae? While it may be tempting to call any resume a Curriculum Vitae because the Latin sounds more impressive, a CV is different from a resume. For one thing, a resume is a concise list of ...

Online Writing Websites that Pay People to Write for them

Written By: Katie Williams in Content Creation Tips

The increase in demand for online content has spawned a significant business for those who enjoy writing. Amateur and professional writers alike can earn money online through a variety of legitimate websites that pay people for their content. ...

Best Websites For Business Profiles and Sales Leads

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

If you are a business owner, sales person, or entrepreneur you know the pain of finding updated and trusted information about businesses online. You know the challenge of finding the decision maker when trying to drum up sales leads or ...

Google’s Amit Singhal takes a play from John Lennon’s Playbook

Written By: Katie Williams in Marketing Industry News

There is no hiding the truth I am a huge John Lennon fan for many reasons. So when I came across this post on Search Engine Round Table I thought it was not only an interesting post but triggered ...

What is a poll, and how to create an effective one

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

Polls are made up of a number of questions that endeavor to determine what the general public's consensus is on a product, a person, a group, or even a proposed idea. In fact, a poll can be taken on just ...

10 Quick Ways To Become A Business Failure

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

So I was listening to the book on my iPod called "The Big Moo" by Seth Godin and came across a section that I thought was short and sweet that was a quick part to summarize and share. ...

Top 5 Business and Marketing Books You Need To Read

Written By: Katie Williams in Business Articles

I have been listening to and reading alot of books about business, marketing, building a business, and starting a business over the last couple months and out of them all I have a list of 5 business books you must ...

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