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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Newest WordPress Real Estate Website – EveryHomeOnline.com

It has become well accepted by Real Estate marketing experts that WordPress is a great way for Real Estate professionals to communicate and interact and network on line with buyers, sellers and others. So you can think of what will happen when WordPress becomes the basis for a complete Real Estate website.
A website that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Facebook and Friendfeed

This is an excellent Washington Post article by Chadwick Matlin that discusses Facebook’s recent acquisition of Friendfeed.  And even better, provides insight into the use of Friendfeed and how Facebook may use its advantage, the ability to aggregate peoples activity from across many social media sites. The article really helped me better appreciate the value [...]

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 [...]

A Client Shares – How Our WordPress Based Websites Actually Increased His Business

Don Samples of Midnight Magic Videography in Knoxville TN just sent me a note recounting his satisfaction and success from using our website. I really like that we were able to help his success, but before I share his experience I need to tell you a little about how we began.
About five months ago [...]

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 [...]

Introducing the new Kertesz2 with limited time savings

Announcing release of Kertesz2 our new WordPress based full dialog website for Professional Photographers. Featuring an easy to configure landing page and impressive dynamic image content gallery Kertesz2 offers style and ease of use. Kertesz2 is an excellent full featured stand alone website, or ideal companion configured to enhance and increase the search rank [...]

The Power of Organic Search Ranking Compared to Adwords – a 9 to 1 Favorite!

The best thing about natural or organic search is that in the long term it costs less and you reach more prospective clients with it. A very lot more.
The difference is in the details. It may be easy to think that it does not matter how you get your website listed on the [...]

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 [...]

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