How You Can Still Sell Paid Links
While I don’t sell paid text links on this site, but many people do. If you have a fairly high ranking site it’s a great way to make more money with your site than with Google ads alone. The best way to improve your ranking with the search engines is to have high ranking sites […]
Something To Think About When Placing An Ad
My customer MeloSleep.com wants to take out several newspaper ads to promote their site. With online ads you make a brand new page and then have people click on a link to that new page. Lillicotch.com/sample1/, Lillicotch.com/sample2/, etc. That way by using your server logs you know exactly how many visitors that new page gets, […]
A Good Reason To Use Image Alt Tags
Alt tags are small bits of text (sometimes not so small) that only show when an image on your page is blocked for one reason or another. Back in the old days of s-l-o-w dial up modems many people surfed with the images turned off in order to speed things up by not not having […]
Good Free Tools – Wall Street Journal Small Business Help
The Wall Street Journal has added a great new small business section to their website that’s free to use for anyone. They cover a wide range of topics from financing to advertising and promotion. I just recently found this site and started to explore. I had thought that WSJ was a subscription only site and […]
Is It Worth It To Give Away Information?
One of the things that I think and write about in my business Is It Worth It To Give Away Information? It’s one of the things that I believe in, have based my business on and I think that in the end it will also make you the most money. I am a supported of […]
Why Site Owners Don’t Really Want SEO
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the best thing going, right? Kind of like “Why don’t we slice the bread before we put it in the package?” Have a look around the web these days and see how many sites ignore SEO completely. I used to wonder why that was and then one day I realized […]
Some Random Thoughts on Wednesday
When sending email for marketing if you offer some good free information along with your ad it’s much more likely that your recipient will open it and read it. Plus if they know from experience that there may be something useful for them in your mail they will be much more inclined to look at […]
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day
Well it’s September 19th again. If ye haven’t been “Talkin’ Like A Pirate” yet ye can start. ARRRRGH! Avast, when I first be hearin of “Talk Like A Pirate Day” I wrote me a small blog post. That turned into a bigger article that I be postin’ herein this site. Other swabs have been Googlin’ […]
Ideas For Creating A Custom 404 Error Page
In case anyone doesn’t know the 404 Error page is the page you get when a visitor types in an address or clicks a link that is not there. It could be a page that’s been moved, deleted or was never there in the first place. Most sites still have a generic error message that […]
Some Random Thoughts
When starting a new site try to focus on the big picture. Colors and design are initially more important than actual content. Decide on a logo and try to decide what your major navigation links are going to be and where you are going to place your navigation on the page. Don’t sweat the small […]
