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What do New York, Las Vegas, Alabama, WashingtonDC, Maryland have in common?
They are now not available! The roll-out continues: Exit Realty is sponsoring the state of New York, Nevada…looks like perhaps half the nation for the local news area of Real Estate Magazine website (RISMedia.com): anybody non-competitive can submit news to kayla@rismedia.com or ambrown@socialmediasystems.com, and we may include it based on merit: but every page in [...]
Why does Internet Advertising not work for everyone?
We hear this often: these guys had results immediately, while I have been doing everything and got no results. It is true: the same people continue to succeed, while others continue to fail: our beta testers in Denver who got immediate results, continue to succeed: they got 42 leads last month we just learned.
There are many reasons [...]
15 New Years Resolutions for your 2008 Website:
I will get connected so I know it when I get a lead
I will syndicate an RSS feed that originates at my Domain
I will become an authority for my area and/or niche topic
I will rank on the first page organic search results
I will convert my dead site to be interactive
I will become a do-it-yourself video [...]
Google’s New Open Social API Will Transform the Web Sooner Than You Think
My take on Open Social:
Open Social is a revolution and I’ve already signed up on the dev list to gain access to the orkut sandbox. Soon everyone will have full access to the social graph across a vast number of networks (everything from linkedin to myspace or plaxo), the difficult task becomes creating widgets and [...]
Which Resolution Should Your Website Look the Best On?
The answer most web designers will give without even a hint of thought is 1024 X 768. While on the surface that may seem like logical choice since according to most website’s analytics, it’s the resolution group with the highest amount of visitors. The problem with this answer is it doesn’t take into [...]
Build Your Social Media Site With Open Source Scripts - Don’t Go Proprietary
Occationally I talk to progressive companies that have taken the leap into social media and have implemented full social communities with lots of features that enable users to interact on the site, but when I look at their site I discover a propriatry custom scripted website. In most cases this is a GIANT Mistake.
I [...]
The 12 Do’s and Don’ts of Website Usability - SEO Basics Part 5
In this article we’ll take a look at some of the dos and donts of website usability.
First, lets explore the dos:
Do make the call to action more prominent visually and make it stick out more on the page.
Do include a one sentence tagline that says what the site or company does.
Do add a search [...]
10 steps | Migration from a static website to automated content management using WordPress
Many people do not know this, but the latest version of WordPress, combined with our optimized themes (this website is one) can fully automate a website, even for someone who knows absolutely no HTML at all, with limited computer savvy:
As many static pages as desired can be built by simply posting, just like a blog [...]
Web Services, Contract and Copyrights - Part 2 - Service Providers
PART 2 - What’s the Deal With Contracts, Copyright and Web Related Services?
Okay, we’ve covered copyright and contract issues for clients; now its time to examine how they affect service providers. Service providers, like their clients, almost always benefit from a contract, especially if they’ve agreed to relinquish their rights to any finished work. [...]
Web Services, Contracts & Copyright - Part 1- Clients
PART 1 - What’s the Deal With Contracts, Copyright and Web Related Services?
If you’re the client, make sure you include the following steps when hiring a service provider to ensure you don’t get involved in a mess like a copyright or legal battle, no matter how much you trust them. While this may change [...]
What’s the Deal With Contracts, Copyright and Web Related Services?
INTRODUCTION:
You’d think the answer to this question would be simple–always sign a contract, period– but it isn’t. While this question applies over a broad spectrum of fields, it is especially ambiguous in the freelance world. This series of articles is geared towards individuals or companies looking to hire service providers like web designers, copywriters and [...]
Website Analytics - Convert Browsers to Buyers
Web Analytics is not the sexiest topic in the Search Engine world today, but is nonetheless very practical in measuring the performance of your website. So many people I come across have absolutely no idea what the traffic patterns are like on their website, much less their return on investment (ROI) or how much it [...]
Modern Web Design Trends | Say Goodbye to Single Column Layouts
When you’re looking at a 19 inch wide screen monitor, a single column layout either wastes most of the screen or As the tiniest resolution starts begin used less and less we’ll start seeing more and more multi column layouts, even for regular websites and blogs. This will happen slowly, as the marketplace adapts to [...]
What is the Nofollow tag? History, Rankings, Advice
Nofollow is a tag added to links that nullifies their value for search engine rankings.�Search engines treat links as “editorial vote,” so a link from webpage A is treated as a vote for the quality or at least noteworthiness for webpage B.�I say noteworthiness because links to negative pages (like scams, controversial postings) are still [...]
Video is still untapped on the web | especially for small businesses
Video is still a relatively untapped resource on the web. Although Youtube, Google Video and 100 plus other video distribution sites are growing exponentially and seeing enormous traffic, almost all of their current content is taken with permission or more often stolen from traditional broadcasting sources. This will eventually change.
Most websites contains almost [...]
Death of the brochure site
As more and more websites take the highly recommended plunge and add content management systems, blogs and other types of interactive content (web 2.0 is a common buzzword describing this trend), the amount of static brochure sites in the search engine rankings gets smaller and smaller.
The world economy is rising, more new companies are getting [...]
The cool part of Web 2.0 philosophy in my own words
Web 2.0 is a term used all the time and is not limited to a specific narrow definition, but is more representative of an entire change in the workings, marketing, and technology a website embraces. I like to think of the Web 2.0 philosophy as the idea of a website as a continually changing [...]
RSS | Still In its Infancy
Sometimes it feels like the whole world is using rss, but then I talk to someone who works outside of the tech arena and I wake up from geek land, realizing that a majority of people still don’t use it. Currently, the average (if you can have an average or normal anything) person isn’t subscribing [...]
Announcing the new Social Media Systems basic template!
Like the original SEO Blog theme (see number one advertising consultant blog in the world) this one builds optimized pages and disseminates information eminating from the owners of the blog and their visitors: but unlike the original this one uses the new version of the scripting which allows alot of WEB 2.0 features like
Five star [...]
Onsite SEO | What You Need to Know About Title Tags if You Don’t Already
Title tags are one of the most fundamental aspects of onsite SEO; further, this is a subject which, in this day and age, I shouldn’t even have to be talking about. This concept has been around since the beginning of search engines and is one of the simplest, most basic ways to help your onsite [...]
