Beginner’s Guide to SEO
I’ve been surprised lately about the widely different ideas that customers bring to the table about what SEO is. Search Engine Optimization is, in a nutshell getting your site optimized for the search engines. One of the first things I ask clients is where they’ve used the key words they think they’re targeting on their […]
Three Concerns about E-Newsletters
OK, I just posted five reasons you SHOULD have an e-newsletter, now let’s look at three things you need to take into account as you start writing your e-newsletters: Junk Email filters. There is a lot of email out there. And a lot of that email is automatically generated junk that you don’t want to […]
Five Reasons to Use an Email Newsletter
Putting a newsletter into email is easy. Reaching people that want to be reached by you is so easy it feels thrilling! Really it does! Give it a try. Here are five reasons you should try it if you aren’t already: Low cost distribution: Sending out a hard copy newsletter can cost anywhere from $0.42 […]
Search Engines and URLs
Search engines from Google to Accona (yes, there’s a search engine called Accona) to Yahoo like to look at the URLs on your site. So you should pay attention to what is happening with your URLs. But let’s start at the beginning. What is a URL (sometimes pronounced U – R – L and sometimes […]
An Email Address By Any Other Letter
Shakespeare may have said that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but who would have imagined that email address starting with any other letter would get less spam? Say what? A researcher in England discovered that, for real email addresses, those beginning with less common letters receive less spam. So that […]
Title Tags for Web Pages
One of the things that many people overlook when creating their web site is coming up with good title tags. First let me make sure we are on the same page. A title tag is the title of the page that appears at the very top of the browser window. For example, if you visit […]
Web Site Usability Testing
Have you ever tested your web site to see if it actually works? We’ve seen some beautifully designed web sites that just don’t work. This goes back, in part to my last blog on having a Call to Action on each page. But it also goes beyond that. Once you have a call, you have […]
Create a Call to Action
We build a lot of web sites. We also rebuild a lot of web sites. And I can tell you that a lot of web sites don’t have a clear focus. A well-designed web site needs to have a clearly defined call to action for each and every page. There might be several different calls […]
Make Your Site the Centerpiece
One of the most unusual aspects of a company having a web site is that the site can be a great marketing tool for the business but that site needs its own marketing plan (which should dovetail with a bigger company marketing campaign). If you set your web site as the centerpiece of your marketing, […]
Stay Organized and Stay Productive
We’ve been giving and receiving Outlook training this week and it hit me how important it is to stay focused with productivity tools of which Outlook continues to be one of our most important. In an office environment, using Outlook as the front end to an exchange server gives lots of opportunities for sharing schedules, […]