Youtube Vs. Self-hosting Debate
There is an interesting debate going on at highrankings.com about whether it’s better to host your own video’s or use Youtube and embed the video into your page. I have always recommended to my customers that they use YouTube or Google Video to host their videos and embed them into their pages. There are a […]
How To Get Inbound Links For SEO
One of the best ways to move your site up the search engine results page for your keywords is to have incoming links from outside websites. The higher ranking and more authoritative these sites are the better it is for you. The problem that people and companies with new sites run into is how to […]
Words Or Pictures Of Words?
I answered a question the other day from someone who was wondering why they were not getting any traffic from Google. When I looked at their first page I could see right away what the problem was. The entire page was one big picture. It was chopped up into smaller slices to help it load […]
Make Sure That Your Content Is On Your Site
I noticed a discussion on LinkedIn today about whether you blogs URL should look like this www.myblog.blogspot.com or like this www.mydomain.com/blog. Some people couldn’t understand the difference and others didn’t think that it mattered. Well, there is a difference and it does matter. The Difference… When you are looking to see who owns a website […]
How To Be Found On A Local Search
There are many businesses that don’t benefit much from visitors that are far away finding their site. Things like pizza shops or car dealers who may get a tiny percent of their sales from a thousand miles away, but the vast majority come from a mile or two radius. In addition any business will benefit […]
Does Your Business Website Generate Business?
I can’t tell you how many sites that I have seen and made where the owner puts up a site and expects the world (with billions of web pages to visit) to beat a path to their door. They never make any changes or even look at it and then wonder why it fails to […]
Adding Links To A Site
A customer recently asked me to remove some of the links on their “exchange links” page. They said “If I am not on their site – I don’t want theirs on mine.” I wrote back that it really doesn’t work that way any more. That they should consider getting rid of their links page. It […]
My New Business Cards
When I first started this business I had some business cards made. I didn’t give it much thought and threw them together pretty quickly. I’ve been talking about new cards for quite a while now and one of the members of Business Leads Exchange Networking Group that I attend is a graphic designer and illustrator […]
Getting Noticed By The Search Engines
When designing a new site I usually don’t write the content. My feeling is that no one knows your business like you do, but I will offer some help if needed. One of my new customers had this question, “When I re-write my first page, would it help to include any information so the search […]
I’ve Built My Site, What Next?
I recently had a customer who has a site that I’m working on, that is selling products, ask me where to start with promoting their site to get more sales. I told them I would start with their manufactures because they have a relationship with them already. I advised them to write to them and […]
