Not all websites are created equal. There is a difference, the most important ones you can’t see.

Here is what I mean. Some websites are passive websites that require you to market them. They are search marketing inept and need Adwords and other paid promotion to receive visitors. My websites are dynamic sites with active search marketing and SEO features and are social network aware to continually present your goods [...]

Migrating from Blogger to WordPress in 7 Steps While Keeping Subscribers and Search Results (UPDATED)

It is easy to move the content of a Blogger blog into WordPress. But that is just the first part of moving your blog. You should really want to move all the benefits of your Blogspot blog to your new WordPress blog. This is particularly true for many photographers who have Bludomain [...]

Total Health Concepts’ Denver Dispensary – New Website

This is my non-traditional site of the season. Recently a client asked me if I might do for a their new legal medical marijuana dispensary what I had done for their other businesses’ internet marketing efforts. (Yep, it is legal in Colorado, has been since 2000.) Looking to learn something new and [...]

Temporary Landing Page for SEO Jumpstart

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 [...]

Setting Up The Best Facebook Page For Your Business

Facebook Pages can boost the internet marketing of your small business significantly. They are well indexed by Google and other search enginges, plus Facebook itself is becoming a significant search engine. Not only is it a way for  increasing your presence in natural or organic search, Facebook is a major potential communication channel [...]

How To Bend The Internet To Your Will

The internet is huge and complex, but we need to only affect a very small portion of it to achieve marketing goals that will make us as small business people very happy. But it takes creativity and understanding to affect the internet and achieve website marketing impact that will achieve the goal.
Fortunately it seems [...]

How SEO Professionals Can Get Your Website Kicked Off Google

Every day I see troublesome SEO “tips” recommending hidden text and other techniques for Flash websites like Bludomain and others. Usually these tips are provided, and often even defended, by well meaning amateurs. But still defending them even when it is brought to their attention that their recommended SEO practice is [...]

The Zen of Twitter and Facebook

Almost everyday I hear the question “What is the difference between Twitter and Facebook and why do I need both?” They are similar in that both are the “water” that can help make the internet marketing of your small business thrive. But they are very different forms. A simple answer is [...]

Great News for Marketing, Twitter to Show Location

Twitter for target area marketing! Twitter recently announced that it will add a new feature which will let people “see” where tweets are coming from. It hasn’t been implemented yet, but will be coming soon.
For my clients’ marketing purposes I am really looking forward to this feature. It will allow for targeted tweets marketing [...]

“WordPress Takes Care of 80-90% of Search Engine Optimization” says Matt Cutts of Google

He also said that “WordPress is a fantastic piece of software“. So why should we care what Matt Cutts has to say? Well here is what the Wikipedia has to say about who is Matt Cutts:
Matt Cutts works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. He [...]

The Pervasive Power of Today’s Social Media

Earlier I have written about how the desire for social connection helped launch the Internet and world wide web. Today Social Media like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin are pervasive, powerful and respected. More importantly they are very wildly, ubiquitously used. They are the channel that will reach many of your prospective clients quickly, affordably [...]

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

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 have more conversions and increased [...]

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 keyword stuffing [...]

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

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 five months ago [...]

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. (Photographers particularly need to consider [...]

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 Bludomain user has already done with Kertesz2 and [...]

Easy, No Cost, Five Minute Off-Page SEO – Extend the time until your domain expires

Most meaningful lasting improvement is search page results comes for improving your site content and structure. But a few months ago I shared an SEO tidbit about increasing the time to expiration for your domain name. Something that takes just a few minutes and has no cost other then the prepayment of fess [...]

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

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 [...]

The Power of Organic Search Ranking Compared to Adwords – a 9 to 1 Favorite!

The best thing about natural or organic search is that in the long term it costs less and you reach more prospective clients with it. A very lot more.
The difference is in the details. It may be easy to think that it does not matter how you get your website listed on the [...]

Proof – Site structure is your best SEO investment

The best and most economical way for a small business to achieve high search engine results placement is to simply have a solid proven platform for their website.
We all know how important search engine results placement (SERP) can be to your website and sales.  Not only will  first page position increase your traffic and sales, [...]

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