Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

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Can Microsoft ever get a commercial right? New Bng commercial just annoys. No wonder the ad budget needs to be so large #
@ChrisBoulton RT “Dialog Website | The Agency at Think Like A Bride” (http://twitthis.com/weqw3r) in reply to ChrisBoulton #
leaving “plan b” life, getting back to a “plan a” life #
“Fatal error: Allowed memory size [...]

Building a new website and domain? Replace your temporary landing page with a simple WordPress LAUNCH page for SEO and SEM jumpstart.

When starting a new domain name and related website I like to use a simple WordPress blog as the landing page. This makes the old style landing page more of a launch page. Often typical practice has been just to put up a single static HTML page announcing the coming website. In some [...]

Don’t let SEO become expensive “life support” for a poor website

Fortunately your website is not a relative, friend or family pet … it is just a business tool. Before spending time and/or money to try to keep it alive with SEO, SMO, SEM and social media, to try to get it to produce results … consider replacing it with a newer less expensive, easier to [...]

Monthly Facebook Visits Overtake MSN, Nearing Google and Yahoo

Because it shows how important Facebook and Twitter are becoming to presenting your business/services on the internet I meant to get this published a few days ago. Sorry for the delay.
Even if you have already noted the article from TechCrunch sharing how Facebook continues to grow and is on the verge of eclipsing the [...]

Ultimate Bludomain Flash website SEO enhancement. Proven 300% search marketing increase in just days.

There is no doubt that Bludomain provides a beautiful platform for showcasing your photography on the web. Unfortunately they are not good websites for internet marketing. Bludomain describes their websites as “portfolio websites”. Heck, even Bludomain’s own website isn’t Flash. So they are great websites for portfolio galleries, but bad for internet marketing.
How to [...]

Santa Fe Trail Jewelry, another all WordPress e-Commerce website

While we were working on the new TrollbeadsTrail website, the store owner was also contemplating making changes to the website for her long time southwestern jewelry and accessories shop … Santa Fe Trail Jewelry. Once she saw how good the Trollbeads site looked and started adding content to it … experiencing its ease [...]

Trollbeads Trail – Complete e-Commerce site with shopping cart all in WordPress

Smart small business professionals see the opportunity of being able to market and sell on the internet. Your business can have a dialog with current and potential customers 24/7/365. Of course the challenge is being noticed with all the competition on the web today. Having your website rank high enough with [...]

Front Page Guarantee for Google Yahoo and MSN Placement – SCAM

The email quoted below was forwarded to me by a client wondering if it was legitimate. He asked how a company could guarantee front page search page results placement.
There are some ways it can be done, and you can do any of them yourself if you want to.
1) Bid high enough on the Adwords [...]

How to choose the right content keywords for maximum organic search traffic

Wouldn’t be nice to know what words/phrases get the most search engine traffic for your competitors?
One of the problems with maximizing your organic search results traffic is that it is difficult to know what words or phrases will increase your traffic. But having an insight into what gets the most search traffic for your [...]

Google to add Twitter search engine service

Twitter posts indexed and ranked by search term relevancy. This is pretty strong and will make your micro-blogging activity on Twitter even more valuable.
From the ” Google Operating System” blog -
“Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter. Since it’s very easy to post updates and [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14

I love the summer before dawn bird song #
Happy Birthday Dad, rest in peace #
It seems to me like its become; Google for information and Bing for consumption. So is Bing a competitor to Amazon? #
Really like howBluehost.com lets you up the memory size in the php.ini file Quick, easy solid fix [...]

Brand New Tennessee Wedding and Events Specialists Association (TWESA) Website

What could be better than putting all the content of a non-profit professional wedding association, resource directory, members’ information together with advice, tips and info for people planning a wedding or event altogether in a WordPress based web/blogsite? Well for the ease of site owner’s maintenance and future additions or the search engine marketing [...]

WordPress 2.8 is out! Baker “lives”!

The new features are excellent. My favorite is that all widgets are now multi instance, and the widget  management interface is very nicely done.
This WordPress version is named in honor of Chet Baker.  To learn more there is an excellent overview video on the WordPress.org blog – http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/
My upgrading advice is as fairly normal in [...]

“Wedding Professional Success” is changing to “Internet Marketing Success for Professionals”

It is mostly the site name that is changing.  The rest of it is taking what I have helped pioneer for wedding professionals websites and internet marketing  and sharing it with other small business professionals that also want to increase their internet marketing effectiveness and improve their income.  I have really grown tired of seeing [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07

time to mow the lawn #
#boycottpb – a vile & violent article. And AOL News should be ashamed for censoring and firing its reporter for sharing the story #
i decree …this week Friday night starts early! beer? #
time to take a brief walk in the moonlight and then bed #
@Jfisherman Thank you! [...]

The internet became popular because it was (as it is now) a social network

At this point in time with so much of our business and income being derived from the internet, it is easy to forget that what made the internet popular was its inherent nature as a social network.
In 1993 when I put my first business webpage on the internet I was getting lots of flame [...]

The web has complexity equal to our brain

I add this post as an extension of the post below. The web is so large and complex and is changing our communication and information pathways so fundamentally that it shows how important it is for your web presence to integrate into the web in as many ways as possible.
Below are the two points [...]

Americans double their time spent on social networks

One of the keys to marketing success is to go where the customers are, and they are on social networks more than ever.
So how to reach them with spending all your time on the social networks? Let your website do it! Fortunately astute small business people can reach potential clients through social networks [...]

Don’t market your website, let your website market you

So we get a new website and we want visitors and traffic. What do many of us end up doing … we market and promote our website! We often buy Adwords, send out direct email and even have price reduction specials. In other words, after we have spent money and time [...]

Contrast of a wedding photographer’s website changing from Flash to WordPress

This is just a simple comparison of a professional photographer client’s WordPress web/blog site that went live over the weekend, replacing their old Flash website.
Photographer – Lyrical Lens Photography
OLD SITE

The prior website platform was Flash, Big Black Bag, hosted on 1 and 1.
The cost of the site was $50 initial setup fee and then $200/annually
Website [...]

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