Here is the how-to for automatically importing your website's blog posts onto your Facebook business page. It is not very complicated, but it is not very intuitive either so it made sense to share the instructions in a short video. As I mention in the video it can take a while … [Read more...]
New website for Midnight Magic Studios a growing wedding videography business.
July 11, 2010 By 1 Comment
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...]
The Joy of a WordPress Based Website
January 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
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...]
Not all websites are created equal. There is a difference, the most important ones you can’t see.
December 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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...]
Proof – Site structure is your best SEO investment
July 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Building a new website and domain? Replace your temporary landing page with a simple WordPress LAUNCH page for SEO and SEM jumpstart.
June 25, 2009 By 1 Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Don’t let SEO become expensive “life support” for a poor website
June 24, 2009 By 1 Comment
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...]
Monthly Facebook Visits Overtake MSN, Nearing Google and Yahoo
June 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Ultimate Bludomain Flash website SEO enhancement. Proven 300% search marketing increase in just days.
June 21, 2009 By 6 Comments
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...]
Santa Fe Trail Jewelry, another all WordPress e-Commerce website
June 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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...]
Trollbeads Trail – Complete e-Commerce site with shopping cart all in WordPress
June 19, 2009 By 3 Comments
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...]
How to choose the right content keywords for maximum organic search traffic
June 16, 2009 By 1 Comment
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 … [Read more...]
What is a top search result showing worth to your business
December 12, 2008 By 2 Comments
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 … [Read more...]
Why should I care about this SEO stuff?
December 5, 2008 By 4 Comments
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 … [Read more...]
Use your blog/website’s unique properties for search engine marketing
December 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
Some of the most important customers to “see” your website are not human.
December 2, 2008 By Leave a Comment
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 … [Read more...]
