A blog of advice, discussion and resources to help Small Business Professionals increase their income through the internet
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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 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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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, … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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...]
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 … [Read more...]
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...]
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 creating a new … [Read more...]
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. … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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