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6.25 tips to turn yourself into a StumbleUpon GOD! 2008-05-13 06:53:47
So you want to be a StumbleUpon
god?
You want to bask in the lovely traffic that it sends your way? None of this Digg-server-crashing thousands-per-minute traffic but nice solid, medium term, nice, warm, lovely, targetted traffic.
Well, yes, we can do that. But then what do you want to do with that traffic? Do you want to just have bragging rights to your mates about the traffic that i
Learning from other blogs 2008-05-12 10:47:46 You'll see that I've added a Blogroll to my website (on the left) which lists some of the blogs that I like to read and where I learn loads of things from inspirational people.
If you're serious about using blogs to drive traffic to your website then you need to be reading blogs as well. You can learn all sorts of tips and tricks about how to create great headlines, fantastic comments, use grea Read more:Learning
Five social networking tools to publicise your blog 2008-05-08 06:07:39 How to drive traffic to your website
OK, so you've written your blog. The content is great: fresh, witty, relevant and people who read it are hooked. Great job. Well done.
You've also got a great design - not so showy that it distracts from your great content, but nice enough to make it look like you know what you're doing.
Pictures? Sure - you've got great imagery that complements th Read more:networking
Can you handle a bidding war? 2008-05-06 10:57:36 In the UK, Google has recently changed its trademark rules for Pay Per Click advertising.
What this means is that, whereas in the past you couldn't bid for keywords that were trademarks (such as Tesco, Amazon, Ebay) unless you were the trademark owner, now you can, as long as you don't include the trademark wording in your advert.
So theoretically, you (as a website users) can do a search for 'T Read more:bidding
Moses' Ten Commandments of Good Website SEO 2008-05-01 04:50:00 Not many people know this, but when Moses came down Mount Sinai with the tablets of stone, he also had some rather more lucrative documents that he was given on a USB stick. After some painstaking research I have managed to get the USB stick working with Windows Vista and have uncovered the 10 commandments of good on-site SEO
.
1. Thou shalt not create Flash websites. For Flash is the work o Read more:Commandments
You're making it too hard! 2008-04-30 04:16:16 There's a great sentence in this blog post about your website being a salesperson for you.
-talk-landing-pages
That's obviously a difficult thing to do because it's a one way interaction and the people you're trying to sell to can walk away whenever they want without worrying about being rude.
Rebecca also makes a great point about getting out of the mindset about what you want to get from your Read more:making
Why you should give stuff away for free 2008-04-29 10:53:05 The other day, I mentioned that you could offer some free advice to your clients in your blog.
For some people, that's just crazy talk. Surely you should be charging for advice? What on earth would people pay you for if they can get the same advice from your blog?
Good point - let me elaborate.
I'm not saying that you outline your entire business knowledge in a few blog posts but if you can Read more:stuff
Keep in touch 2008-04-28 08:56:00 I've just finished writing the very first Mass Media Design newsletter and I'm going to send it out to our clients and people that have had dealings with the business in the past year (you know, the taxman, bailiffs, that sort of thing!).
I think it's an important way to keep your name in the mind of your customers. There's always lots of competition out there and don't think that you're tied in Read more:touch
Why should I market my website? 2008-05-19 09:39:57 I've spent my money - give me yours!
Why should I market my website
? Good question.
You've done all the hard work of actually designing the website, making it pretty and deciding on whether the word 'web' or 'website' was more important. Why should you have to put MORE effort into marketing it? Surely now that it's on the Internet then you can start to count the money that'll come flowing
Twitters links that I HAD to click 2008-05-23 10:04:20 What makes people click a link in Twitter?
I keep banging on about the importance of the headlines in your blog and how they have to be punchy, relevant and make people want to click them.
I've also talked about Twitter and how it's best to treat it as a micro-blog. When you tweet something on Twitter, you're basically applying the same principles that you apply when you're writing a headline Read more:links
What is SEO? 2008-06-02 07:32:49 I was at a breakfast meeting last week and I was asked a question which I hadn't been asked before:
"In what way is SEO
different to website design?".
In effect, he was asking - "What is SEO?". I'd been spouting on about SEO and internet marketing and he had no idea what it was.
That question hadn't occurred to me before. The guy I was speaking with worked in the gas industry and we got ont
Why Plurk will kill Twitter 2008-06-05 06:41:56 Ok, maybe it's too early for me to say this (having only registered with Plurk this morning and still in the stage of calling it Plunk) but I just cannot see how Twitter
can compete with it in the future.
If I had to name one thing about Plurk that kills Twitter it would have to be the ability to reply to plurks (or tweets, as old-fashioned people call them). It sounds simple but it truly is a
Can you save piles of cash from offshoring? 2008-06-13 08:26:39 Is offshoring your development as good value as it seems?
I've had a pretty manic week sorting out a website that had been left half finished by some offshore developers (an awful situtation to be in). The code was in a bit of a state and our client's client was keen to get it live. It took a lot of hard work, gnashing of teeth and late nights but we managed to get it live yesterday. Thanks t Read more:piles
How to get a direct link to your website from Google 2008-06-27 10:45:03 Links from authority website
s are undoubtedly one of the best things you can have to increase the SEO of your own website. Ideally they should be in a similar sector to your business but a link is a link and a link from an authority website is much more powerful than a link from an untrusted website.
I can’t think of a site with much more authority that Google
, so I took a bit of time and
Can you save loads of cash from offshoring? 2008-06-13 08:26:39 Is offshoring your development as good value as it seems?
I've had a pretty manic week sorting out a website that had been left half finished by some offshore developers (an awful situtation to be in). The code was in a bit of a state and our client's client was keen to get it live. It took a lot of hard work, gnashing of teeth and late nights but we managed to get it live yesterday. Thanks t
Why Plurk will kill Twitter 2008-06-05 06:41:56 Ok, maybe it's too early for me to say this (having only registered with Plurk this morning and still in the stage of calling it Plunk) but I just cannot see how Twitter
can compete with it in the future.
If I had to name one thing about Plurk that kills Twitter it would have to be the ability to reply to plurks (or tweets, as old-fashioned people call them). It sounds simple but it truly is a
What is SEO? 2008-06-02 07:32:49 I was at a breakfast meeting last week and I was asked a question which I hadn't been asked before:
"In what way is SEO
different to website design?".
In effect, he was asking - "What is SEO?". I'd been spouting on about SEO and internet marketing and he had no idea what it was.
That question hadn't occurred to me before. The guy I was speaking with worked in the gas industry and we got ont
Twitters links that I HAD to click 2008-05-23 10:04:20 What makes people click a link in Twitter?
I keep banging on about the importance of the headlines in your blog and how they have to be punchy, relevant and make people want to click them.
I've also talked about Twitter and how it's best to treat it as a micro-blog. When you tweet something on Twitter, you're basically applying the same principles that you apply when you're writing a headline Read more:links
Why should I market my website? 2008-05-19 09:39:57 I've spent my money - give me yours!
Why should I market my website
? Good question.
You've done all the hard work of actually designing the website, making it pretty and deciding on whether the word 'web' or 'website' was more important. Why should you have to put MORE effort into marketing it? Surely now that it's on the Internet then you can start to count the money that'll come flowing
6.25 tips to turn yourself into a StumbleUpon GOD! 2008-05-13 06:53:47
So you want to be a StumbleUpon
god?
You want to bask in the lovely traffic that it sends your way? None of this Digg-server-crashing thousands-per-minute traffic but nice solid, medium term, nice, warm, lovely, targetted traffic.
Well, yes, we can do that. But then what do you want to do with that traffic? Do you want to just have bragging rights to your mates about the traffic that it
Learning from other blogs 2008-05-12 10:47:46 You'll see that I've added a Blogroll to my website (on the left) which lists some of the blogs that I like to read and where I learn loads of things from inspirational people.
If you're serious about using blogs to drive traffic to your website then you need to be reading blogs as well. You can learn all sorts of tips and tricks about how to create great headlines, fantastic comments, use grea Read more:Learning
Five social networking tools to publicise your blog 2008-05-08 06:07:39 How to drive traffic to your website
OK, so you've written your blog. The content is great: fresh, witty, relevant and people who read it are hooked. Great job. Well done.
You've also got a great design - not so showy that it distracts from your great content, but nice enough to make it look like you know what you're doing.
Pictures? Sure - you've got great imagery that complements th Read more:networking
Do you want links? Then link OUT! 2008-07-08 06:34:31 Links. Links. Links. Any Search Engine Optimisation/Optimization company will tell you that links
are one of the most important elements of good website SEO.
Whenever I talk to clients about SEO, I explain that a link from another website is seen by Google as a vote for your website. The more votes you have, the more popular you are seen to be and the higher you appear in the search results.
25 Invaluable Website Design Tools 2008-07-03 10:04:56 Everyone likes things that makes their job just that little bit easier. I've collected below a list of tools, tips, techniques and reading that you can use on your next website design project.
If you can think of anything that's missing then please send me an email and if they're useful enough then I'll add them to the list.
1. Web site checker
Got a client on your back claiming that their w Read more:Tools
Flash websites now indexed by Google - A black hat's wet dream? 2008-07-02 03:15:48 The announcement that Google
can now index flash pages thanks to a plug-in by Adobe should be welcomed by web developers and SEO practitioners but I’m afraid it leaves me with a rather cold sense of foreboding.
I’ve never been a great fan of Flash
websites. Note that I’m not saying that I don’t like Flash – for things like image galleries then they’re great and add a touch of style
Google updates its Toolbar PageRank 2008-07-25 05:54:33
Matt Cutts (Google
's head search spam fighting honcho) has announced that they've updated their Google ToolbarPageRank
values and you can expect to see the changes in the next couple of days.
You mayt be wondering what Toolbar PR is and how this change will affect you. Most SEOs will tell you that it's totally irrelevant and you don't need to pay any attention to it. And they're pretty much Read more:updates
Does your website say anything about you at all? 2008-07-18 07:59:25 One of the great things about my job is that you're asked to look at lots of different types of website
s and suggest what can be done to them to help their search engine performance and their marketing performance.
it's not as simple as one might hope. I've seen some really awful looking websites that have been performing really well in the search engines and I've seen sites that look fantastic Read more:anything
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