I love my Akismet
If you aren’t using Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) on your blog, it’s time to get on it! Everyday Akismet blocks about 100 spam postings by linkers. Why so many? Spammers are trying to...
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Ranking on Local Search
After my short post yesterdday, I say this posting, with 8 steps to ranking well on local search
Local Search
Local search has got to be one of the best bargains out there! Here are some local search results I noticed this morning. Submitting to Google local search is free and ranking is easy....
Fresh but not TOO fresh
Content sites are a great way to soft sell your way to high conversion. I keep producing content for my own sites and client sites and watching the traffice increase slowly but steadily. Something...
Organic Vs. PPC
Today’s post is several items that don’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to small business owners: Organic and PPC Media Post’s Search Insider recently did a great article...
How much traffic for profitability?
I had several conversations with webmasters and clients recently about how much traffic is required for a website to be profitable. Several webmasters, who have around 200 unique visitors per day, complained that they...
Quick Tips for getting traffic to your website
Ok so you have a website now and an SEO guy has just told you it will cost $2000 – $5000 to get your site on the first page of Google. And it doesn’t...
Promoting your Website – Introduction for small business
Clients and browsers frequently ask me for information on promoting their website, what they can do, and how the search engines work. So here is a quick primer on what the search engines do,...
Making your website more effective.
I am a big fan of Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg at FutureNow, and highly recommend their newsletter. Here are a couple of articles that explain, point by point, how to write more contact us,...
Moving from Web 1 to Web2.0
If you are a small business owner with a brochure type site, and have heard about web2.0 (Web2 isn’t stopping), then you are probably wondering what you can do to update your site. Even...