Archive for the 'Web Design' Category
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Last month was busy here working with 4 clients. There is a bad link problem on this site with many links to our SEO book site going to to an old domain name. We are fixing these with time, but the correct link to our seo book is http://www.the-seobook.com.
We had a massive spam load […]
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
For the second time, we’ve had a client having problems with their email through Comcast. Comcast is blocking their email when using another host, even though they aren’t spamming. Contacting Comcast about it doesn’t do anything. Comcast is on our blacklist of hosts that support spammers at:
http://www.creatingnewworlds.org/stopspam.pdf
They are also on our short list of […]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Branding is very important in web site marketing and the success of your site. A brand is a collection of images, text, symbols, logos, slogans, and design that represent a company or individual. It is so important in marketing that companies often trademark their brands (particularly logos or the company name) to protect the identity […]
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
One of our specialties is helping people get good listings in the search engines. You can have the best web site in the world, but if nobody knows you are there you have wasted your time and money. We often hear the words from clients “Nobody is visiting my web site. How do I fix […]
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Why not add a link to your home page to help get your visitors back again? It’s easy. The visitor clicks the link, which adds your URL to their Favorites.
1. First, create a backup of your current page.
2. Now add the bookmark function at the end of your current page. If we put it […]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
If you’ve been using Google Adwords, you’ve may have noticed a sudden jump in your cost per click. It wasn’t imaginary - Google is putting more emphasis on the quality of your landing page in calculating your minimum bid. There was, apparently, a lot of Adword spamming regarding the landing pages. People would click through […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Matt Clutts, who works at Google, has just produced a free online video that has lots of cool info for search engine optimization and web design. Here is the URL:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-answers-on-google-video/
(If you have trouble finding the video in the library, click on the first less on this page.)
Topics include:
Qualities of a good site
Design for users or […]
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Friday, July 21st, 2006
In indexing a site in the search engines, Google first finds your home page and saves the information on that page to it’s index. Then Google comes back later (generally weeks) and crawls down your site indexing the rest of your site from the links on your home page. Unfortunately, for most sites these links […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
We’ve just updated our SEO book and it is now version 9. It’s now all of 240 pages and available for immediate download. Here are some of the major changes:
The PPC chapter has major updates. Learn which PPC advertiser is best and how to use their service to get those sales
Getting in the DMOZ Directory […]
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
Here are a few good web sites for developers:
Lost your site?
You try to pull up your site on the Internet and it won’t come up. Is it your computer, the network, or your server? A quick way to find out is to go to http://www.alertra.com. For free, they will attempt to reach your site from […]
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