It appears that Google SEO and Google Adsense don’t talk to each other much. On January 19 Google announced that it will negatively affect search results placement (SERP) for pages that have excessive ads in the above-the-fold area of the page. However, Google Adsense wants you to place more ads on your site. Hmmmm… [...]
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PPC: 3 Lies Amateurs Tell Their Friends…
January 20th, 2012
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Lie #1: You don’t need to use a professional PPC manager. The Truth: The way for an amateur to make a small fortune in e-commerce with PPC…is to start with a LARGE fortune. You can lose an incredible amount of money in a matter of days, or even hours, with PPC if you don’t know what [...]
Web Design: 5 “Web 2.0″ Secrets Revealed…
January 18th, 2012
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There’s a lot of confusion and misunderstanding surrounding “Web 2.0″ design. Web design to “Web 2.0″ principles is easy. Web 2.0 design is all about the “S” word…Simplicity. KISS Principle In the old days we called it the “KISS Principle”…”Keep It Simple, Stupid”. And since “everything old is new again”, the KISS Principle is back in [...]
Website Maintenance: 5 Ways Neglecting Site Maintenance Hurts Your Business…
January 4th, 2012
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Neglecting your website maintenance is like driving down a block of well-kept homes, except for that one where the grass is tall enough to hide a pitbull, there are 2 cars…in the front yard, and the house hasn’t been painted in 30 years. If you don’t maintain your website on a regular basis, that mess [...]
Web Design: 4 Things Your Web Designer Won’t Tell You
December 21st, 2011
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After serving hundreds of clients spread throughout 38 U.S. States, Australia, Canada and Japan, (many of whom have been with us for years) we’ve learned a few things about prospective clients who contact us to do their website design or development. If you’re looking to sign up with a web designer, you might want to read [...]
To PPC, Or Not To PPC? – That’s A Question?
December 13th, 2011
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Around December 7th, 2011, Google started running their own ads promoting Adwords (PPC). Here is what the Google ad told “SEO” searchers… “Forget about SEO. To be visible in Google today, try AdWords.” Straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, or maybe the other end depending on your point of view. Either way, the fact [...]
Web Design: Top 10 Desk-Laptop Website Mistakes of 2011
December 12th, 2011
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Well, it was really tough, but I’ve finally managed to trim the list of web design mistakes down to a “Top 10″ list for websites intended for viewing on a desk or laptop computer. If your website isn’t performing the way you want it to, you might find the reason(s) why in this list. Remember: [...]
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
December 6th, 2011
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What does this famous sentence have to do with effective Internet marketing? Plenty. The entire quote is widely considered possibly the best opening sentence ever written for a novel. It was written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton 180 years ago for his novel titled “Paul Clifford”, and it’s still powerful today. The visual image brought to mind is something [...]
Are You A “White Paper” Idiot?…
November 22nd, 2011
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I said, “Did you see that great white paper on…?” And he said, “What’s a white paper?” For those of you who don’t know…a “white paper” is just another name for a “report”. That’s it. Plain and simple. Don’t over-think this. So why should you be interested in white papers? White papers with high perceived [...]
8 Mobile Website “Must Do’s”…
November 14th, 2011
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Being “mobile friendly” doesn’t stop with fitting your site to the tiny screens on smartphones. That’s just the beginning of building a mobile site. I Want It NOW! Load fast… 5 seconds, max Copy must be easily and quickly scanable. Use paragraphs of one or two short sentences. Use bullet points. Reduce image size to [...]
106 Excuses…
November 1st, 2011
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…for not being successful. How many apply to you? What are you going to do about them? Many of these apply not only to personal success, they also apply to your business success. For help with any of your Internet marketing or success needs, call us at 877.280.2424
