A Dream Wedding by Sharon Replaces Their Old Bludomain Flash Website with a New WordPress Site

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Well known San Diego wedding planner Sharon Cole of A Dream Wedding by Sharon contacted me regarding improving her search engine marketing and internet presence.  For a number of years she had been using a Bludomain website but recently found that with increasing competition, her … [Read more...]

New website for Midnight Magic Studios a growing wedding videography business.

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Don Samples of Midnight Magic Studios in Knoxville TN works hard and makes really great wedding videos.  He has been a long time client and I adapted the first Kertesz release for use as his website starting in 2008 using WordPress 2.5. So it seems very unfair that his site was … [Read more...]

HVAC professional’s new website helps slam him with new business.

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When I do a website for a client there are effectively three customers I consider; the website owner,  search engines and the prospective customer of the website owner's goods/services. For success, all three need to "like" the website. When Dennis Grimes asked me if I thought … [Read more...]

My Favorite Twenty Plugins for Using WordPress as a Website Content Management System

Recently I was talking with Kerry at Camera Dojo and he asked what my choice plugins were when using WordPress as the content management system (CMS) for a total website. Below, in no particular order, is the "default" plug-in pack that I install when I begin setting up a WordPress … [Read more...]

Temporary Landing Page for SEO Jumpstart

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It will often take a month or two or more after you get your domain name before you will have your final website. And it is not unusual for another month our two after that before your site is indexed. But as I have written before you can use that time to get your domain well indexed … [Read more...]

New Client Website – The Something Blue Shoppe

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We just completed another social media dialog website for The Something Blue Shoppe, a full service bridal and prom salon located in Hartselle Alabama. The salon wanted all the advantages that goes along with our all WordPress based websites, including: Easy do it yourself … [Read more...]

“Socializing” with your website visitors works! A Bottom Line Income Increase from using Social Media

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The words "conversion" and "conversation" seem very similar to me. Plus I have never experienced converting anyone from a lead to a client without having a conversation. So if you can give your website the ability to engage in "conversation" or a dialog with site visitors you should … [Read more...]

SEO Gone Wild in Texas – UPDATED below

Such is the situation in the race for the Texas governor's office. But, what is the website for the campaign for Texas governor doing that is causing the uproar and that help us in our own efforts to get higher search ranking on Google? It is more than keywords, it is auto-generated … [Read more...]

A Client Shares – How Our WordPress Based Websites Actually Increased His Business

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Don Samples of Midnight Magic Videography in Knoxville TN just sent me a note recounting his satisfaction and success from using our website. I really like that we were able to help his success, but before I share his experience I need to tell you a little about how we began. About … [Read more...]

Free Blog Websites Cost You a Lot

Well over half the websites I come across can host their own free blog, but instead chose to use a different website like Blogspot, putting their best marketing content on a different business' website. Be kind to yourself and your business, keep your best content on your own site. … [Read more...]

Bludomain and the new Kertesz2 – like peanut butter and chocolate together for an SEO treat

Nothing makes Bludomain sites work Google (and other search engines) better than Kertesz2. We are offering a special opportunity to all current Bludomain site owners - we have decided to offer a $50 savings on Kertesz2 to all current Bludomain owners. If you want to see what one … [Read more...]

Photographer’s Bludomain Website Moves Up To “Top Ten” Organic Search Results in Less Than 30 Days

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A few weeks ago we began an effort to move a client's internet presence up to the top ten Google results. And reduce their monthly expense. I blogged some about the big increase in SEO score we gained for the site last month it in this post SEO that works! Now, less than 30 days … [Read more...]

Introducing the new Kertesz2 with limited time savings

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Announcing release of Kertesz2 our new WordPress based full dialog website for Professional Photographers. Featuring an easy to configure landing page and impressive dynamic image content gallery Kertesz2 offers style and ease of use. Kertesz2 is an excellent full featured stand … [Read more...]

Measuring and Improving your Social Media Impact

As Web 2.0 evolves to returns the internet to its social media roots, albeit with great advancements, interconnectedness and opportunity, it is useful to try to get an idea how well you are doing. After all, the first step towards improving is measurement. Fortunately Google has … [Read more...]

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

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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 … [Read more...]

Monthly Facebook Visits Overtake MSN, Nearing Google and Yahoo

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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 … [Read more...]

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

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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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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 … [Read more...]

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

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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 … [Read more...]