I was fortunate to track down Ted Ulle at the Pubcon SEO conference and ask him some questions about search engines, website usability and internet architecture. Ted was gracious enough to answer questions about the future of search engine optimization and best practices for web design and internet architecture. Tedster stresses best practices that do…
Just like with natural or organic search engine rankings, it’s not possible to guarantee top placement in Google adwords paid search. AdWordsPro a member from Google groups says that a company guaranteeing a specific position in paid or unpaid search engine results is potentially unethical and not feasible Bottom line, if anyone says they can…
Your website is only as good as your authority, trust and ranking, and your competitors are continuously working to make you less relevant and more obscure. Here are tools and tips to keep your search engine ranking by checking on what your competitors are doing. Spyfu is a great tool to quickly see what keywords…
Conversion testing and landing page optimization is a never ending job. It is a challenge to get the best converting webpage and we love testing different versions to see what works best. Below is a landing page test of a software sales page with real world results. See if you can choose the winning version.
Back when I began my internet aspirations in 1998 I saw the heavy wheeling and dealing at during the height of the dot-com era. When I hung my shingle on the roadside of the information superhighway, toys.com was 100x bigger than Toys R Us and Yahoo was a 130B company. Domain names rapidly changed hands…
I have been trying to use Yahoo Site Explorer to search for backlinks all day, and it has not been working. We have known about the pending changes to Yahoo this summer as they are consumed and destroyed integrated with Microsoft’s Bing. This merger was announced nearly exactly 1 year ago as a strategic move…
There are many career websites available, and tens of thousands of job listings but most people have difficulty finding a the small jobs for niche specializations. The unfortunate truth is that even in this recession, the good jobs are not on the monster.com’s and craigslist’s of the internet, but are buried in local resources and…
1888PressRelease is a great site to promote your company news. They are much cheaper than PRweb and offer a free press release submission campaign. Your news will be distributed to Google News and over 100 other online news sites and RSS feed aggregators. 1888PressRelease works specifically with PR firms to help promote regular news, articles…
Working with companies from South East Asia, Singapore & Malaysia, Japan, Korea or China requires different business etiquette than Western nations. Below is a video crash course in the art of the Asian business card exchange. Following these simple tips and honoring protocol in their countries will win you huge points and guarantee respect. Not…
Affiliate Summit is the place you want to be and is the conference that will take your online business to the next level. The next event is in New York city, Aug 15-17, 2010 at the Hilton New York, and they are expecting over 3000 attendees. Platinum Affiliate Summit conference passes cost $1,249 each but…