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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

It lives! Bing goes live, early

It was supposed to be here on June 3rd and here Bing is on June 1st. What can I say … how about “damn, that’s a mighty pretty search engine”.

That’s hot air ballons in Turkey. And if you install Microsoft’s Silverlight, you get a full animation experience of the interface. Pretty cool, [...]

Live Search is dead … Long live Bing

Over this weekend Microsoft is replacing Live Search with it’s new search service named Bing.  Microsoft is promising a number of improvements of their previous search engine, Live Search, and even over Google.  I have read through both Microsoft’s Bing announcement and ZDNet’s technical summary of Bing.
Both articles seem to indicate that much of a [...]

META Keywords tag will not help a Flash website

In fact it won’t help any website.
I recently had an email from a Flash website owner who said that his website designer assured him that the META Keywords tag would help overcome a Flash site’s search engine weakness. Sadly, no.

Despite some SEO hype types, in reality the META Keywords tag is DEAD. Yep, [...]