Blackhat SEO “Expert” Goes To Jail
I have written many times before about using tricks to get your site to the top of the search engines. See this, or just search this blog for SEO. I believe that it’s always harder, but better to do it right. I read last week about the CEO of Traffic Power getting jail time and […]
Is Email Marketing For You?
I believe that email marketing is still one of the best lowest cost ways to reach your customers. If you don’t believe me have a look at your inbox and see just how many of the biggest retailers in the world are trying to reach you. I believe that every business should have some kind […]
Great Free Tool – htaccess Generator
If you have a site and don’t know what an htaccess file is you should learn about them This is the file that controls how a browser visiting your site is allowed to behave. It controls password protected pages, default pages, error pages and much more. I found a site called cooletips.de and they have […]
You Need Good Product Photography
For most people when they visit your site that’s pretty much all that they know about you. Especially for a small business with few or any brick and mortar locations this first impression means everything. That means if you are selling a product on your site you need to have good clear professional looking photos […]
What Do You Do, Exactly?
I found myself at a get together the other night and was asked What is it that you do, exactly? I found myself trying to explain search engine optimization, search engine marketing and things like viral marketing to people who had never heard of them. I went on for a bit and I think that […]
Creative Promotion Ideas
I like to read the Wall Street Journal’s Small Business section. It seems there are always good ideas for business looking to promote themselves in new and unusual ways. I find myself paying close attention to their blog and often following their related content as more of it becomes free. Recently I read and enjoyed […]
The History Of SEO
As another year comes to a close I like to look back at the current year and review the progress that I have made in my business. Looking back seems to be the thing to do this time of year and I think that it’s important. Knowing where things have been is the very best […]
Backup Your Data, Backup Your Data, Backup Your Data…
Hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday. Mine was hectic, but very nice. In the last couple of days I have experienced two different servers that I have my sites or my customers sites on go down for several hours for different reasons. On Sunday one was down for almost eight hours and yesterday another […]
An Interesting Promotion Tool – Blog Talk Radio
One of my customers showed a site to me called Blog Talk Radio and asked what I thought of his using it for promoting his business. He is a big listener to talk radio and was looking for a similar way to get his message out to the world. What Blog Talk Radio does it […]
Great Free Audio Tool – Audacity
I have had customers ask me about putting audio or podcasts on their site. Most of them are also looking for a good tool to help them with recording or editing of their content. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. Audacity can […]
