Pandora Founder Talks About Life in a Web Startup Business

Online Business, Web Development 3 Comments »

pandora music Video interview with Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. Tim has built an extremely successful online startup and he discusses the story of how he came to start this revolutionary music company.

He is inspirational and bases most of his success on his never say die attitude.

Tim tells the story of flying back from New York City after pitching 10 different venture capitalists and returning with no money. He took a 2 flight trip via Southwest Airlines, which was the cheapest available. Read the rest of this entry »

Essential Pages Your Website Must Have To Be Ranked Well in Search Engines

Search Engine Optimization, Web Development 6 Comments »

I’ve been spending a lot of time looking over websites not ranking in Google I see a mistake fairly often that is easily corrected.

Search Engines won’t rank you as well if you are missing the following pages.
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Video Presentation Tips To Improve Your Online Demo Reel

Search Engine Marketing, Web Development 2 Comments »

Having an online video showcasing your skills can be the ticket to ongoing consulting projects and new business. Creating an engaging video that demonstrates you are an expert in your field will set you apart from your competition and make a lasting impression.

Video presentation tips:
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#1 Highest Converting Website Button

Conversion Rate Optimization, Web Development 17 Comments »

add to cart We are always looking for ways to improve website conversions and increase sales, and love testing different design elements to optimize our landing pages.

Perry Belcher graciously shares his highest converting shopping cart button and explains the psychology behind its design.

This button is specially designed to be used on direct response style sales landing pages, and may not be suitable for a retail e-commerce shopping cart.

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Why Digg Lost Its #1 Spot to Reddit

Online Business, Web Development 11 Comments »

digg logo Digg.com lost its reign as the most important social media site to game use, so now reddit.com will need to need to upgrade their system to keep up with the new SEO’s users.

After an eternity (in internet years) as the top dog in driving traffic, how did Digg lose their footing?
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Landing Page Optimization – What You Need to Know

Conversion Rate Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Web Development 19 Comments »

landing page optimization results What if I told you that by using these proven techniques, you could increase conversions up to 300% while lowering traffic costs by 50%?

If this interests you then keep reading.
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Interview With Legendary SEO Ted Ulle

Search Engine Optimization, Web Development 9 Comments »

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 not change, and is not a fan of chasing the Google algorithm. He also reveals that he would focus resources on IA before SEO.
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How To Overcome Duplicate Content Problems and Boost Your SEO

Search Engine Optimization, Web Development 20 Comments »

duplicate content Duplicate content is a huge problem online, and this is not helped by content mills such as ehow.com that mass produce text written by people who may not be experts in their field.

There is no greater frustration for an SEO than fighting duplicate content issues the client may not know about.

There are multiple kinds of duplicate content that you may inadvertently have on your website. Find out how to remedy this problem and fix your search engine optimization problems.
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What Do The Top 300,000 Websites Look Like and How Can You Beat Them

Online Business, Search Engine Marketing, Web Development 17 Comments »

300000 biggest websites

The map above is an infographic of the largest online web properties.

Notable websites are Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Craigslist, Wikipedia, Youtube and others.

What is most impressive is the way that these sites got so large. None of them had any large scale advertising program, and most did no advertising at all. These sites all grew to become industry leaders through viral marketing and word of mouth.

How can you replicate this success? Build an online business that people have to use.
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Valuable Domain Name Company.com Reborn As Business Social Network

Domain Names, Web Development 9 Comments »

company.com logo 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 and seemingly had no limit on their valuation.

I remember coming across Company.com and seeing the unique under construction page:
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