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 […]
One Site’s Bad Publicity Can Be Another’s Bonanza
There has been more and more written about how to manage your companies reputation in the new online world. A world where a small misstep can be picked up upon, not just by traditional media, but by a world of bloggers and social media. I have even talked about how the RIAA is doing bad […]
How To Get Inbound Links To Your Site
You have built your site with good consistent plain text navigation. You have dressed up your pages to look really great, have some killer original content and are adding more info on a regular basis. What Next??? The next step in getting your site to gain more traffic and to rank higher in the search […]
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 […]
A Good Way To Get Content For Your Blog
One of the ways I get ideas for things to write about is to talk to people I meet online to find out what they are interested in. When they ask me questions I usually save their questions along with my answers to use here. Sometimes I rewrite them and sometimes I use them as […]
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 […]
Keeping Your Website Current
I wrote yesterday about keeping the copyright date on your pages up to date, but there’s much more to keeping your site current than that. One of the things that search engines look for is that they are able to find new information on your site on a regular basis. There’s a good reason for […]
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 […]
Should A Site Use PDF’s?
I wrote the other day on my newest favorite sites page that I stated that they would do better if they converted their news page from a PDF to a regular HTML page, but I suppose that’s not completely true. Search engines do indeed index many of the PDF documents available on line these days. […]
What Good Are 1,000,000 Visitors If They Don’t Like Your Content?
I have written before (and here) that I believe that if you have a site that is over optimized for search engines chances are that your human visitors could find it hard to read, use and understand. I ask my customers what good is having all of the traffic in the world if they just […]
