Michael Martine’s last blog post..Five Ways to Tell You Need a Blog Consultant Are the sites ranking for their keywords as well?
I wouldn't call this google sandbox. I call it google honeymoon period. New websites / new articles sometimes get higher rank in google, it may just be some google algorithm trying to rank 'breaking news'.
Jeet’s last blogThis is amazing. This is exactly what I can do and want to do for small businesses.
Quoting from BuzzMachine The local ad opportunity (and the danger of losing it)
The promise of local ad support for news will come only if a new population of very small businesses can be served in new and effective [...]
I did some research on my new client, his site, and his industry. He has, or had, a web site built by someone else. I did some checking around to see where we stand before we begin. Here’s what I did.
Using the “SEO For Firefox” plug in and the Google Toolbar in Firefox, I found [...]
It’s really easy to believe that everyone else is like you. They aren’t.
Everyone tends to do it. It takes a conscious effort to not do it. I mean, you are a rational person. You believe everything you believe and think everything that you think. Why wouldn’t everyone else think and believe the same way? What [...]
SEO should be free.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. How much it costs will depend on how optimized you want it to be. Nothing in SEO costs any money, only time. You should learn what the techniques are and then you should do them your self.
friend just told me recently “I have many [...]
I got a comment from Christopher Ross on my last post. I have no idea who he is, but he writes about the same stuff that I do. He’s got good ideas. I might even steal a few to write about here.
I did the natural thing and checked out his site. I left a [...]
Wordpress is free.
I saw an article recently listing 10 free web site building tools. Most of them take a while to figure out. They won’t all let you do what you want to do. None were expandable to your own site if you ever wanted to take the next step, from “free” to “owning your [...]
I was walking a client through his Analytics stats yesterday, explaining what each page, each section meant. I asked him if he ever looked at these since we set them up. He looks at them as much as you do, which is never.
e didn’t connect the value of what these numbers and charts mean [...]
I’m offended by the “greasy hair” stereotype, but other than that, this article has some true things to say. I came from the web development world, where a budget of $30,000 was average. I worked at a company that developed a web site and sold it for $580 million bucks.
You don’t need that. From [...]
In the recent debate on how evil Network Solutions is, I neglected to give you the non-evil alternatives.
JumpDomain Whois
The easiest thing to do is go to an old registrar that quit answering my emails so I moved all of my domain names away from them. They had non-existant customer support, so I’m sure they [...]
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Here Are 3 Easy “Calls to Action” to Convert More Website Traffic into Sales on the About Us, Media and Contact Us Pages
1. On the “About Us” page, after your [...]
My wife went through the draft with her pen and marked it all up. Anything that she didn’t understand is being rewritten. Some of my organization wasn’t clear, so I’m making that a little clearer. We want to make Web Site Starter Kit the best it can be, which means clear, concise communication.
They haven’t [...]
Note: This is for people who already own a business, but don’t have a web site. This is not about how to blog your way to millions. It’s not about how to create the next Digg or FaceBook. This will tell you how to get your business on the web for free. That’s it. Don’t [...]
Note: This is for people who already own a business, but don’t have a web site. This is not about how to blog your way to millions. It’s not about how to create the next Digg or FaceBook. This will tell you how to get your business on the web for free. That’s it. Don’t [...]
Now that you have all of your pages, which has created all of your menus, and are filled with all of your content, what else do you want the site to do?
All of the fancy features that you want your site to do can be added using “plug ins”. Each plug in adds one bit [...]
There are some things that a small business web site should have to establish credibility and not look stupid. You should make it easy for people to contact you. Yes, even your phone number. Being able to call up and get a real person, even if all you can say is “Sorry, I’m busy right [...]
I’ve put up a link under my short bio over there on the right. Put up a new head shot while I was there. If you click on the button, it’ll pop up a window and you can ask me anything you want to know about small business web sites. I’ll answer it as [...]
There are a lot of business owners out there who have a vague feeling that they should have a web site, but don’t want to learn anything about it or spend any money on it. Maybe times are tough, but marketing is the only way that business will get any better.
f you have a small [...]
Wordpress is a system that allows you to manage your content. You might call it a content management system, or CMS, but only if you cared about this stuff. It’s a system built on a bunch of files that talk to a database. Sorry if that’s too technical for you. There are a bunch of [...]
The downside to this is that you only have the ability to make it do what they let you do. If you wanted to spend money on this, you could have the ability to do whatever you felt like. Sorry, getting off track again. They only allow you to use one of their approved themes [...]
We need to know what we want to accomplish. What is the goal here? You have a business. You want more customers. How do customers find you? Search engines. “Google” has become a verb. How do they use a search engine? They type in a words and hit enter. Those words, those “keywords”, are critical [...]
