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...]

Measurements – Four Favorite WordPress Stat/Analytics Plugins for your Site’s Dashboard

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One of the treats with a WordPress based website is how easy it is to measure results of your posts and other marketing activity.  What gets measured gets done and the plugins discussed in this post can help.  Of course you can get all this from Google Analytics, and if your … [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...]

Selecting a Domain Name for SEO and Search Marketing Maximization

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Later this week I am working with two different clients to select new domain names for websites that have been up for about a year. Both are small businesses. In one case the domain name seems huge.  It is 30 characters before adding any of the http:// or .com which is another … [Read more...]

Free Do It Yourself Search Engine Optimization

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It has become pretty clear to almost everyone that online search has eclipsed yellow pages advertising as having the best value and greatest results. Even for local business. Thirty years ago it was not unusual to see business paying $3,000 per month for a full-page front section … [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...]

Is Flash soon to be the new Betamax?

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Some people are choosing to view the discussion around Flash and iPhones/iPads as Apple versus Adobe.  I think a better perspective simply centers on open web standards, improving technology and what is best for content distribution/use. Many consumer electronics and internet … [Read more...]

The Joy of a WordPress Based Website

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One of my newer photography website clients (and a former Flash website owner) gets a lot business from Facebook. This morning he sent me an email with this link to the Facebook Developers Wiki asking if there was a way to automatically include the Facebook Share button on his website … [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...]

Exclusive Bludomain SEO Performance Guarantee

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Booking season is starting, it's time to significantly improve your Bludomain site's search results position. For all search possibilities, not just your business name. What would you say if I could promise you a full refund if I couldn’t improve your SEO score by 50% in just … [Read more...]

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

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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 … [Read more...]

Anyone using MySpace for marketing these days?

This morning I came across an interesting article in the Financial Times, titled "The Rise and Fall of MySpace" It outlines some of the management issues of bring ... bought by a large media empire while trying to keep up with the likes of Facebook and Twitter. It is an interesting … [Read more...]

Black Studios Photography – Success Improving Bludomain Search Results and Site Traffic

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Mike and ElizaBeth Black of Black Studios are always working to enhance their services and business. So recently Mike set out to further increase the search results rank and site traffic of his Bludomain website (which is also hosted by Bludomain). Mike had worked meticulously to … [Read more...]

Newest WordPress Real Estate Website – EveryHomeOnline.com

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It has become well accepted by Real Estate marketing experts that WordPress is a great way for Real Estate professionals to communicate and interact and network on line with buyers, sellers and others. So you can think of what will happen when WordPress becomes the basis for a complete … [Read more...]

Maximize Cyber Monday and all of December – Use Twitter

Last December Dell reported over $1 million in sales for their Dell Outlet through using Twitter. They don't have anything in the way of amazing programming and functions for this, they just announce deals and respond to potential customers. Twitter has been so successful for Dell, … [Read more...]

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

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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 … [Read more...]

Total Health Concepts’ Denver Dispensary – New Website

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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 … [Read more...]

Facebook Fan Box Widget for Internet Marketing Success for Professionals

Below is the Fan Box Widget for my new Facebook Page. Just exploring options as I am setting up the my business page on Facebook I am undecided as to the effectiveness of this option. On one hand it will drive traffic to your Facebook page on the other hand that may be traffic … [Read more...]

Another Bludomain Website SEO Upgrade Success

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It is pretty well established that a Bludomain website alone will never get good search results and resulting website traffic. Having experienced many months of poor search placement and website traffic, and then trying to SEO his Bludomain site to no avail Jim Bendewald of James … [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...]