Apr 26
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 »
Mar 03
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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Mar 01
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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Jun 17
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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Dec 15
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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Dec 09
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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Nov 19
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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Oct 11
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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Sep 10
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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Aug 23
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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