The Joy of a WordPress Based Website

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 pages and posts. If you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Measuring and Improving your Social Media Impact

As Web 2.0 evolves to returns the internet to its social media roots, albeit with great advancements, interconnectedness and opportunity, it is useful to try to get an idea how well you are doing. After all, the first step towards improving is measurement.
Fortunately Google has a tool, wouldn’t you know it . [...]

Building a new website and domain? Replace your temporary landing page with a simple WordPress LAUNCH page for SEO and SEM jumpstart.

When starting a new domain name and related website I like to use a simple WordPress blog as the landing page. This makes the old style landing page more of a launch page. Often typical practice has been just to put up a single static HTML page announcing the coming website. In some [...]

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 [...]

Monthly Facebook Visits Overtake MSN, Nearing Google and Yahoo

Because it shows how important Facebook and Twitter are becoming to presenting your business/services on the internet I meant to get this published a few days ago. Sorry for the delay.
Even if you have already noted the article from TechCrunch sharing how Facebook continues to grow and is on the verge of eclipsing the [...]

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 [...]

How to choose the right content keywords for maximum organic search traffic

Wouldn’t be nice to know what words/phrases get the most search engine traffic for your competitors?
One of the problems with maximizing your organic search results traffic is that it is difficult to know what words or phrases will increase your traffic. But having an insight into what gets the most search traffic for your [...]

What is a top search result showing worth to your business

What is it worth to your company to show up in the top search results for your type of services or products? Shouldn’t that be the primary goal of your website? Shouldn’t your website market you, rather than you having to market your website?
Many of us make decisions about our website without first [...]

Why should I care about this SEO stuff?

The most basic question is often the best question. And this is also a question that my brother-in-law asked.  My brother-in-law said after listening to a lot of words about SEO he still didn’t understand the value of it or why the proposed fees were so high. Might I help him understand?
To keep it [...]

Use your blog/website’s unique properties for search engine marketing

Many of us over look a unique power of a blog/website for search engine marketing.
In addition to Google, blogs and blog/websites have another type of search engine that can benefit your business. These search engines are dedicated blog search engines like Technorati.
And, just as it is beneficial to verify your website with Google, [...]

Some of the most important customers to “see” your website are not human.

We all agree, the purpose of your website is marketing. But what good is your website, if very few prospective clients ever find it?
This why you need to consider both customers for your website; the HUMAN customer and the search engine’s SEARCH-BOT customer when you develop or enhance your website.

While the search-bot is hidden and [...]