Author Archives: Randy Benton

About Randy Benton

Randy started in web design over 18 years ago while still a band director. A lover of all music (especially RUSH) and still a teacher at heart, he is an Internet Marketer and web designeer with Computer Technology Services in Fleming Island Florida.

5 Content Ideas for Your Small Business Blog

Many times I recommend to clients that adding a blog to their site is a great way to establish them as the expert in their area and to help elevate their business and website over some of their competition.  While … Continue reading

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Google Drive – The End of Dropbox?

The last few weeks there has been a buzz about a new product that Google is getting ready to release.  Called Google Drive, it is an online storage area that you will be able to access form any computer or … Continue reading

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Facebook Changing Business Pages Layout

Business owners that have a Facebook page for their business need to take a look at your account.  On March 30 Facebook is moving all pages to the new timeline view, like it or not.    Some love it and … Continue reading

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Google Places May Drop Your Listing

Recently, SEO writer Andrew Shotland had his Google Places listing dropped from Google.  After searching in vain and contacting Google he discovered that they had removed his listing because he worked from home but did not check the box to … Continue reading

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New Beginners WordPress Videos

We have posted the first of our Beginners WordPress Videos. In this video we cover the basics of logging into the administrative interface in WordPress. For those users that are new to WordPress, it is frustrating when you cannot get … Continue reading

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Online Advertising Basics

Image that at the click of a mouse, you could advertise to the whole world, or maybe just the entire United States. Would that help your business? How about just your state, or maybe just your metro area or city, … Continue reading

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Google Advertising – Just How Big is Google?

Just saw a very interesting infographic today developed by Nowsourcing.com.  Is show the 2011 revenues of Google and the breakdown of how much the top advertisers in the top 10 industries spent on Google Adwords last year.  And you thought … Continue reading

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Take Control of Your Web Site with WordPress

WordPress.You may have heard the name before, but never learned what it is for.  You may know someone that blogs and uses it, but never realized how it can change your web strategy. When used effectively for web site design, WordPress is … Continue reading

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Is Your Web Site Working?

Most all businesses these days have a web site. It has become one of the basics for starting and running a business. We put a great deal of time and sometimes blood, sweat, and tears, into getting the site up … Continue reading

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Is your web site dated?

With the beginning of the new year there is some basic maintenance that I feel everyone should do on their website. High up on that list is updating your copyright. It is one of those forgotten parts of the site, … Continue reading

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