Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the process of making your website findable through search engine’s like Google and Bing. SEO is one of the best online marketing tactics available to businesses with an online presence. It can have a significantly higher Return On Investment (ROI), if done correctly, than other types of online marketing. It is a long-term process that depends on many factors and while there’s no guaranteed formula for page one success there are a few best-practices that can help improve your website in the eyes of the search engines. Here are 5 great tips you can implement in your SEO efforts today.
5 Actionable Search Engine Optimization Tips You Should Start Today
January 26th, 2012 by Omar ZulfiCanada’s Web Shop “In the House”: The MCA Men’s Curling Bonspiel
January 23rd, 2012 by Cheryl HillBetcha Didn’t Know – Canada’s Web Shop & the MCA Men’s Curling Bonspiel are Like This!
It’s Manitoba, it’s -30, it’s Curling Season, and Canada’s Web Shop is in the house! (Sorry for the blatantly obvious pun…)
Here at Canada’s Web Shop, we pride ourselves in being part of Winnipeg’s community. For the past 3 years, we have sponsored an event at the MCA Men’s Curling Bonspiel which is held all over Manitoba. Tonight, at the Granite Curling Club, at 7pm, the final of this event will take place.
SOPA: Make the right choice, choose the Internet
January 20th, 2012 by Danny WoodThe Key Problem: Context
As someone who always tries to see both sides of a debate, I understand where people are coming from that support these bills. The internet is a medium through which it is more easy than ever before to facilitate theft of intellectual property such as music and movies, and it makes sense that a good way to prevent this kind of theft is to eliminate the people, (or in this case, websites,) that make the theft possible.
Video Blog: Ensure the Value of Online Marketing Tactics
January 13th, 2012 by John McDonaldToday, John is speaking about the importance of implementing Online Marketing tactics that have a direct benefit for your business’ bottom line, as opposed to tactics that simply are “hip” and popular at the moment.
Microsoft Cleartype Breaks the Internet
January 11th, 2012 by Alex TrauzziWith the news that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 has – finally – fallen to 1% of U.S. browser share, the modern internet is now turning to face a new problem from the folks down in Redmond.
Until recently, the technology to include fonts and also the permission to use them has prevented web sites from deviating beyond generic typefaces like “sans-serif” or “serif”. To get around this, many people banked on the popularity of Microsoft Windows to leverage their default font library. Which eventually came to include the famous and well entrenched “Verdana” font.
Is the collective nature of the internet making us stupider, or only seem stupider?
January 6th, 2012 by Chris ChatelainMany of us are used to text messaging speak or instant messaging our friends in some form of shorthand, some of it made up on the spot. Facebook is full of terrible grammar. Take a look in many IRC channels and you’ve got plenty of people not using capital letters and dropping punctuation at every opportunity. Bizarre abbreviations and acronyms pop up everywhere.
Open Is Better
January 3rd, 2012 by Alex TrauzziIn dealing with various technologies and services on the internet, one thing that my experiences as a developer have taught me is that open is better. You can use this rubric for just about any online or IT concept, and you’ll find that in the long haul, you’ll be better served. Whether it’s by using open software, hardware that communicates using standards or using a service that isn’t afraid of letting your data get away from them. Examples are all around us and the majority of successful tech companies have banked on the quality and transparency of free software. Even Microsoft and Apple have leveraged the quality of free and open – despite what their marketing departments might want you to think about it! In the grand scheme of things, open solutions tend to be longer lived, easier to work with and overall cheaper.
Using Google-API-PHP-Client with Google Analytics Core Reporting
December 22nd, 2011 by Jonathan DartGoogle’s PHP client library for their GData API hasn’t received as much love as their client libraries for other languages. Despite the lack of high level service classes for Google Analytics’ Core Reporting API it is possible to work with it using google-api-php-client.
The below is a quick and dirty self contained example based on a Google+ example to get a report. Before you get started go to the API Console and enable access to the Analytics API and generate a client id, client secret, and to register your redirect uri.






