Three Websites Walk into a Bar… to meet a prospective client

The bar must have WiFi. Now stop me if you have heard this one before … but three websites each from different photographers (or any service or product that the prospect was searching for) meet a prospective client. Each may present only one page to try and make a sale.
One website shows [...]

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 based website and why. [...]

Reseller, Affiliate Marketing and Pay Per Post Free Zone Announcement

To assure the clarity of focus to always recommend what I believe is the best for my clients no more affiliate marketing, reseller, pay per post or other third payment payment arrangements will be on this website.
For disclosure the only affiliate link that had been on here was an affiliate link to Bluehost, but as [...]

Exclusive Bludomain SEO Performance Guarantee

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 14 days? I have complete confidence in it [...]

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 [...]

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, and focuses on [...]

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

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 improve the search results of his standard [...]

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 [...]

Another Bludomain Website SEO Upgrade Success

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 Studio Photography in Madison WI emailed for help.
I [...]

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 [...]

Bludomain hosting for WordPress UPDATE

Once in a while I find a Bludomain hosting account that does not have Fantastico enabled, making it not possible to set-up WordPress on Bludomain following my illustrated how-to guide from last week.
What happens is when you click on the Fantastico icon you will get a screen that reads something like this -
“Fantastico is [...]

New Client Website – The Something Blue Shoppe

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 content additions, upgrades, and site maintenance.
Complete automatic interaction and cross posting with Facebook [...]

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 [...]

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