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As you might know, WordPress is web software Orion Group has been using to create beautiful websites for our clients. Over 60 million people world wide have chosen WordPress to power their websites!

WordCamps are yearly events put together by WordPress users. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other.

Orion is sponsoring “WordCamp Milwaukee” and tickets are available now. 

WordCamp Milwaukee is June 7, 8, & 9 at Bucketworks.

$25 – Weekend-Only Ticket

This ticket gets you the Saturday and Sunday presentations, admittance to our awesome after party, a t-shirt, and lunch at the event.

$35 – Foundation Friday User 101 + Weekend Ticket

This ticket includes the weekend ticket, plus allows you to attend the Friday User Workshop on the foundations of using WordPress for managing your website.

Get your ticket now at: 2013.milwaukee.wordcamp.org

Use the following coupon code to get $10 off: oriongroup

How many times per day should you tweet?

I often get asked by clients about social media and how much they should be using it. Specifically though, regarding Twitter, how many tweets-per-day you should be doing is subjective to how many other users your followers are following. If they are not following many people, your tweet interval will appear to be frequent. If they have many people in their following list, your tweeting might feel slow.

In general, you could probably get away with tweeting 3-5 times a day for starters.
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At the April Web414 meetup, Mike Rohde shared about his new “Sketchnote Handbook“. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s New With Orion:

Bill’s Double Knee Replacement

Thanks for your patience as Bill has been unable to reply to emails or phone calls due to recovering from surgery. It’s been slower progress than hoped for, but he’s almost at 100% mobility again.

Newer, Faster Website Hosting

We’ve been moving website from our old Red Anvil web server to our new Cartika server. It’s such a large project that we’ve hired a contractor, Jon, to work non-stop on it for the next 6 months. If your website is hosted with us, you will be hearing from Jon.

And… What About You?

I’d love to hear what you’re up to. Has business been good for you? Do you have big business plans for 2013? What are your marketing goals? Read the rest of this entry »

The Senior Level SEO Expert aids the Internet Marketing Manager in executing various online marketing initiatives such as search engine optimization for multiple clients who require ongoing assistance with gaining visibility in the search engines.

We are looking for someone who can “hit the ground running”, is already training in the ways of SEO, already has experience in performing techinal website audits and competitive landscape reports as well as determining keyword strategies. Read the rest of this entry »

Minecraft.net is Down. Reddit.com is Down. raven-seo-tools.com is Down. Foursquare.com is down,

There are rumors that AWS (Amazon Web Service) is having technical issues at the moment. Can anyone confirm this? Post a reply at the bottom of this page.

Update:

We heard back from Jeanne McRedmond, Director of Customer Support at Raven Tools, who says, “I can confirm that, yes, it was an AWS issue” but that at this point they can still only speculate as to what caused the issue. Read the rest of this entry »

According to SEO software company, SEOmoz, a Mozcation is planned in Milwaukee for October 2012 at the Harley-Davidson Museum. Tickets are free and can be registered from this site.

So far, in attendance there will be over 70 companies represented from around the Milwaukee area and the USA. That’s 139 people who have registered so far!

The biggest representation so far comes from these fine companies:

• Launch Digital Marketing
• Trivera Interactive
• SEOmoz
• Top Floor Technologies

 
Of course, a big thanks goes out to Kyle Faber of Regal Creative for putting together the MilwaukeeMozcation.com website and nomination in the first place!  And, Orion Group is proud to have been in on the ground level of this great event by helping spread the word and get local companies and individuals to vote and continue spreading the word in an effort that SEOmoz would pick Milwaukee as one of their destinations for Mozcation 2012 in USA.
 See you there? 

Leave your comments below to let us know you’ll be there!

In the past, we used to recommend interlinking your webpages using various keyword phrases in the 1st paragraph of your website content…

Now, if you have already moved over to using WordPress as your website’s content management system, you might have seen the ‘more’ tag while in the Dashboard creating or editng a blog post. Read the rest of this entry »