I always believed that one of the best ways to get your site noticed is to write articles. I have several sites that distribute articles that I send them off to and if one gets published on a popular site it can bring tons of traffic.
That’s not the only reason to do it, however. Writing articles gives your site more good high quality content for the search engines to find. You can also use them to bring traffic to your site in other ways. I use my articles as advertisements on CraigsList and other similar sites. In the proper section to advertise my services I write a short teaser to my article and then link to the full article on my website. I rotate my articles between several cities and put up new ones on a regular basis. That way if you have ten articles and rotate them between ten different cities you can change them every 3 days and only have to repeat them about once a month. Of course if you have more articles you will repeat them less often.
A recent post on SiteProNews talks about this.
Do you design your sites with only one browser in mind?
If you are it is a very big mistake. Why should you shut out a large percent of your visitors just because they are using a different browser than you?
If you don’t believe me look for yourself. Try looking at your hard work with another computer and browser. If you are shocked to see what you see, you are not alone. There are many different compatibility issues with different browsers and with IE7 due out any time now there will be more.
Still Not responsible if you get caught playing at work
More fun time wasting web toys!
I am reading more and more these days about how click fraud is going to be the death of pay-per-click advertising. While I believe that the numbers are probably higher than what is reported, but the search engines are doing their best to limit this problem.
What you need to do as an advertiser is to do what you should do if there was no click fraud. That is to test, retest and test again. If you track everything you should know what you are spending for each individual ad and what it is bringing in revenue. It’s called ROI (return on investment). You need to know exactly what you need to make on each ad and only use the one that meet these goals. You know the big boys are doing that and you need to do it too, then it probably won’t matter what the percentage of click fraud is (unless someone is really out to get you).
In the end if you are not willing to do (or pay for) the tracking work then you should not be buying in the pay-per-click business.
It used to be that PayPal was just for people selling from their homes on Ebay.
Now if there was any doubt that they have moved into the mainstream and just as big a plyaer as any other popular form of credit, PayPal is now accepted by Walgreens, Starbucks, Barnes and Nobel, and many more.
PayPal can provide any website with an easy and economical way to get paid for your products and services.
A section of my site that gets quite a bit of traffic is the “Start Your Own Website” section. Also most of the questions that I get asked are about how does a beginner start their own website.
A List Apart publishes articles written for working web professionals, but when I saw their section geared more toward beginners I decided to share it with anyone who is interested in building a site. There is good stuff here for beginners, as well as, experienced designers.
I was reading this post and thought, I have had almost the same experience. A client who had a site built by someone else proudly showed it to me and wondered why it wasn’t getting any help from the search engines. Their site used JavaScript for navigation, not Flash, but the idea was the same. After I told them what I thought, as diplomatically as possible, they said that I was wrong. Their site was fine and just needed some links pointing to them.
I have heard through others that their site is still under performing, but they won’t tell me that.
Before you believe any SEO claims that this is easy or quick,
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Here?s something for some fun on any day. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work)
I know it’s not Friday, but this one was just way too cool to wait. Really hypnotic. Be sure the sound is on.
What looks to be a good story about the “No Fly List” will appear on 60 Minutes tomorrow night. I believe that this kind of thing doesn’t work to prevent terrorism and never will.
“The most feared words in the English language ‘I am from the government and I am here to help’.” - Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Here’s a preview of the story.
Here is one of the most comprehensive surveys on Open Source Software that I have seen.
According to Dr. Anthony Picardi, senior vice president, Global Software, who analyzed IDC surveys from over 5,000 developers from 116 countries, “The use of open source beyond Linux is pervasive, used by almost three-quarters of organizations and spanning hundreds of thousands of projects.
