A Favorite New Site – Mellasat Vineyard
I have a page on my site with some of my favorite new sites that are showing up on the web. These are not my sites, but they are the kinds of things that I like in a website. There are different reasons that I picked these sites, they all look good, and are clear […]
Sensible and Practical SEO Advice
Jennifer Laycock of Search Engine Guide is very sensible and practical in her advise about SEO. her new article “SEO Basics: “Click Here” is Evil” is just that again. Her advise it to never use Click Here as a link. Where ever possible you should be descriptive with your text links and use things like […]
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 […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – Google’s Features
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) Many of Google’s features in one webpage. Google accounts, maps, blogs, pack, desktop, pigeonrank, talk, toolbar. Being a big Google fan myself I spent quite a bit of time working (playing) with many of these tools – […]
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”. […]
Friday Just For Fun Site – In Search Of Stuff
Here’s something just for some fun on a Friday. (Not responsible if you get caught playing at work) “In Search Of Stuff” is a site with some web design and Internet marketing humor. Even if you don’t get the inside jokes it’s pretty funny. “You are the 1st person to read this article. And we […]
