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Bright Green Network!

admin — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:53:02 +0000

Clarify Designs has created a great resource for business owners, professionals, and leaders in the community to network online, free! If you consider yourself eco-conscious and have a role in your community, feel free to join Bright Green Network! It will benefit you by giving you another venue to share your services, give you higher search engine rankings for your website, and your making your voice heard and it takes only a second.

Check it out at http://brightgreennetwork.ning.com!

Why did Clarify Designs create this free community? We believe that our voices combined can be heard louder. This is a way to help bring about change and show that there are lots of us that share the same green goals!

Meta Tags, still important?

admin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:11:18 +0000

Many people believe the meta tags (key words added into the head tag of the html) are necessary. At one point meta tags were considered a relatively important factor by search engines. AltaVista and other older search engines used them to help determine a site’s theme as well as relevance to a given term. This is no longer the case; search engines now rely on much more advanced techniques to do this.

Experience with the tag has showed it to be a spam magnet. Some web site owners would insert misleading words about their pages or use excessive repetition of words in hopes of tricking the crawlers about relevancy. For this reason, Excite (which also owned WebCrawler) resisted added support. Lycos quietly dropped its support of the tag in 1998, and newer search engines such as Google and FAST never added support at all.

Keywords, however, are important for your site. Clarify Designs can help you optimize your website with the right keywords in the right locations so that your site is picked up by search engines. There are a number of other steps we take to optimize your site. Contact us today to discuss more about how we can help with getting more traffic to your site.

ThinkHost – 100% Renewable Energy Hosting

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:21:58 +0000

ThinkHost Web Hosting is the best hosting company I have found. Not only are they powered by wind and sun, but they are also a progressive company that’s been around since 1999. They contribute to their community and causes that promote peace, environmentalism and social justice! They rock! If you haven’t check them out click on this banner and that will take you to their site.

From their website, ThinkHost.com:

Choosing a host for your web site can be a frustrating process; especially if progressive values and eco-friendliness are important aspects of your business. Naturally, you’re looking for a host that combines all of the right features for the right price. So why should you choose ThinkHost?

» Commitment to customer satisfaction
» Progressive; socially responsible and supporting the community
» Environmentally conscious
» Financial stability
» Feature rich hosting
» International company
» Reliability
» Bonus offers
» Client incentive, affiliate and reseller programs
» Commitment to open source
» Fast setup and multiple payment methods

Green Maven

admin — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:23:00 +0000

Finally a website that brings the best of the Green Web together. Designed for Mavens that just can’t get enough of all things Green. Clarify Designs just listed our site on Green Maven recently and highly recommend it. Use it as a research tool, or keep up to date on the latest trends in the Green Revolution.

We have a mission to grow the green economy by leveraging the power of the collective internet.

Here are our first three tools:

Green Search Engine : We’ve built the world’s first comprehensive Green Search Engine based on Google’s Coop Search technology. Rather than searching the entire web, your search yields “green” results. Soon we will have the ability for anybody to be a Green Maven and help contribute to the research of mapping the Green Web.
Green News Reader : We’ve integrated the best of the green blogs into one, easy to read format. We receive new stories all day long day from channels of the best news on the web. Read all the news channels at once, or switch channels to read any specific news source. Use the “Share It!” feature to send a positive news story to a friend, family, or co-worker. If you have any suggestions for great online news sources, let us know .
Green Directory : This is the source for our Green Search Engine. If you’d rather browse than search, explore the Green Web using our comprehensive directory.

We’ve got many other great tools in the works, but we’re going to keep them a surprise because it’s more fun that way!