Maintaining Your Email List
If you are running an email campaign then you probably have some hard choices to make about when to take names off of your list. Of course you are going to remove anyone that requests to be taken off, but how about those other undeliverable names? Mediapost’s Email Insider has an interesting article called “Losing […]
Great New Tool – Website Optimizer
Here’s a new tool from Google that will help you to optimize your landing pages to get the best results possible from your AdWords campaign. For those of you who are not sure what a landing page is, it is the page that people go to when they click on one of your ads. Some […]
Use Follow Up Email
I sent my mother in CA a basket of fruit for Mothers Day. Today I got a nice follow up email from the company I used. I’m not going to say who it was because they are not paying me. OK, OK, It was Cherry Moon Farms I think that if you are not doing […]
E-mail, e-mail or email
I have changed from writing E-mail or e-mail to email. It’s easier to write and seems to be becoming the standard. I may slip up from time to time, but this is what I am trying to do.
How To Fix A Bad Site
There’s an article on the SiteProNews site By Ayat Shukairy called “9 Ways to Improve Bad Website Design”. She talks about things that I have said on my “Philosophy” page. That the best websites are made to be more clean, simple and easy to use. There is a time and place for some of the […]
What Makes A Great Site
When I’m advising someone about how to design and lay out a new website I always try to think about it with the search engines in mind. There are some basic things, like navigation, that really matter. Jill Whalen of High Rankings wrote an interesting post on searchengineland called “Don’t Sweat the Small SEO Stuff”. […]
Advice For Sending A Newsletter
Are you sending out a newsletter? One of my clients “All America Roadside” a company that sells Roadside Assistance packages wanted to send one. They had in the past sent them out in a “whenever we have the time” manor and I advised them it should be on a more consistent basis. They were providing […]
Cool Buttons With CSS
I hear requests for all kinds of buttons. I prefer to make them with regular text and use CSS for effects. That way you know search engines will be able to follow them and you can help improve your page rank by having the link say “This is what my page is about” right on […]
Know Who Your Visitors Are
One of the things that my customers ask me the most is how to know how much and what kind of traffic is coming to their site. I usually tell them that the first place to start is with their visitor logs. Most web hosts these days offer a complete stats package, as well as, […]
Help Fight Spam – What You Can Do
I’ve joined Project Honey Pot. It’s free to join and would encourage you to join also. Project Honey Pot is a distributed network of decoy web pages website administrators can include on their sites in order to gather information about robots, crawlers, and spiders. They collate data on harvesters, spammers, dictionary attackers, and comment spammers. […]
