Monthly Archives: April 2011

How to Write Better Title Tags

By admin | Published: April 27, 2011

If there’s one aspect of SEO that must not be missed, it’s the title tag. What are title tags? Basically, when a search engine like Google wants to know what your website is about, it will send out what are called spiders to crawl your site for certain data. Sounds ominous, doesn’t it? These spiders aren’t to be feared, however. They’re to be helped, especially if you want to rank for your chosen keywords and you want to rank well. These spiders will look at your URL and your title [...]

Posted in SEO / PPC | Tagged keywords, optimization, title tags importance, write | Leave a comment

6 Best SEO Plug-ins for WordPress

By admin | Published: April 25, 2011

To optimize your website for the search engines, you should start from the moment your concept for the perfect site begins to come to fruition. But if you use WordPress, you can continue to optimize your site long after your site has gone live with free SEO plug-ins. To surpass the competition and ramp up your traffic levels, use these five must-have SEO plug-ins for WordPress. SEO Friendly Images If you aren’t using Alt tags with your images, you are wasting SEO potential. SEO Friendly Images allows you to optimize [...]

Posted in Marketing Automation, SEO / PPC, WordPress Development | Tagged 2011, automation, cms, optimize, plugins, seo, wordpress | Leave a comment

4 Reasons You Should Start SEO Before Your Site is Built

By admin | Published: April 20, 2011

You cannot simply build a site and hope that people will come. Just as you must engage in market and demographics research when opening a brick-and-mortar establishment, you must engage in the same type of research when building a site. Even if you construct the most eye-catching, content-driven site in the world, if you don’t spend time and money on search engine optimization, all your efforts will be for naught. But what many website owners don’t realize is that the time for SEO optimization is before your site is even [...]

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Google’s New “Like” Button

By admin | Published: April 19, 2011

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button was initially designed as a way for users to share content with friends. When you click the ‘Like’ button on a website, an update will appear in your friends’ news feeds with a link back to that very site. Facebook figured out early on that the more ‘Likes’ a website gets from friends, family and associates, the more likely you are to go to that site since it’s probably safe and relevant. Now, Google has come out with its own version of Facebook’s ‘Like’ button. The new [...]

Posted in News | Tagged +1, browser, google, like button, plus one, search engine | Leave a comment

6 Must Have Free SEO Tools for 2011

By admin | Published: April 14, 2011

It’s a common misconception that optimizing your website for the major search engines is expensive. While it’s true that you can spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on professional SEO work, there are a number of free tools that will let you jump to the tops of the SERPs all on your own, and for no money! The following six SEO tools are absolutely free and are a must for any website owner who wants to surpass the competition and get that visitor counter racing. SEO for Firefox The [...]

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Is Your Ecommerce Business PCI Compliant and Secure?

By admin | Published: April 13, 2011

If you want your business to accept credit cards, you will need to be PCI compliant. The major credit card companies have created these Payment Card Industry standards to protect users’ personal information. That means that your business, your payment processor and the credit card companies all need to follow these rules if credit cards are to be used. If you don’t meet these PCI compliance rules, you could be fined from the credit card companies and banks and you could even lose the ability to process credit cards altogether. [...]

Posted in Ecommerce | Tagged ecommerce, ecommerce security, merchant, pci compliance | Leave a comment

4 Highly Effective Habits for Building Free Traffic

By admin | Published: April 12, 2011

If you are using the Internet for any sort of marketing purpose, you need traffic. Whether you are selling your latest product or you’re using your website to try to drum up more business for your dental practice, without traffic you won’t get very far. But how do you build up traffic to your website, products and/or services? You could pay for the traffic you want. Pay-per-click advertising is a very effective way to drive hundreds of visitors to your website, if you know what you’re doing. On the other [...]

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10 Deadly Sins of Web Design

By admin | Published: April 10, 2011

10 Web Design Mistakes to Stay Away From at All Costs When creating a website, whether you’re graphics savvy or not, you should remember one rule: good web design is about minimalism. You should never clutter your websites or make them difficult to navigate. If you want to create the ultimate website that your visitors will love to come back to again and again, you should provide those visitors with what they want and in a way in which they want it. Confused yet? Relax, creating the perfect webpage for [...]

Posted in Design / User Experience | Tagged user experience, web design denver | Leave a comment

6 Factors for Creating Results-Driven Newsletters

By admin | Published: April 7, 2011

Creating a newsletter is easy. Creating a newsletter that your prospects and customers will actually open and read, on the other hand, is another matter entirely. If you want to increase customer loyalty and sales, as well as reach any other goals you may have for your business, you need to be smart about your newsletter creation. To help you, here are six factors that will help you create visually appealing, compelling newsletters that your prospects and customers will actually look forward to. Read Your Competition’s Newsletters Before you write [...]

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3 Best Smartphone Apps for WordPress Mobile Management

By admin | Published: April 5, 2011

WordPress is a fantastic CMS platform in that it’s free, it’s easy to use, it’s constantly updated with security fixes and added functionality and that’s not even mentioning the fact that there are plug ins up the wazoo that make WordPress completely customizable no matter what you want to use it for. But why should all the fun be limited to bloggers and site owners who work from desktops and laptops? Why can’t the smart phone crowd update their WordPress sites while on the go? With the new crop of [...]