Google recently launched its search engine starter guide within the past couple of weeks, and after reading it (and re-reading it), I was reminded of my earlier post on why some companies have difficulty getting ranked in search engines (see "Why Can't I Get Ranked In...
Writings from a Jack-of-all-Trades Marketer
Optimizing your PPC Campaigns
Just read a great article from Bryan Eisenberg called "7 Signs Your PPC Campaign Needs Optimization" and he pretty much nails it on the spot. His list: 1. You use the set it and forget it strategy to PPC 2. You don't have proper tracking in place 3. You have not...
To Blog or Not? That is … kind of the question?
I read an article from Wired.com regarding the outdated use of blogging [see Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004], and I really didn't want to have to blog about this issue; but after contemplating it for a couple of days, I realized I had the duty to do...
Freebies!
I know, I know... shameless promotion on my part. But hey, a great way to increase long-term traffic on your site is to give things away! So on that note, I will be trying (really hard!) to create things for my audience to download on a monthly basis. And yes...
Lost fundamentals of web design
I wrote this for the VU designers blog, but not sure who's manning the blogs, so I'll just put up this post here. Enjoy! As a web designer, developer and online marketer, it's really cool (and at times interesting) to see how other web designers create their web sites...
Google's Chrome Evaluation, Part 2
Now that I have had more time to spend on playing around with Google, there are a handful of things that I can see working well for them in comparison to the other browsers. I noticed that opening new tabs in Google now function similarly to how FF does now, where a...
WHEW!!!
Ever since I came back from my conference, I have had no time to play and lots of time to really reflect on my freelance business. One of the things that I knew I had to do was to re-establish my site and re-create everything from the ground up. For one thing, I had...
Google’s Chrome Evaluation, Part 1
I've been playing around with Google's Chrome browser for a while, and have had some cool things that I liked and others that I'm still getting used to. Nevertheless, here are my two cents on Chrome. The Positives First off, it seems very fast and responsive when...
A great design goes a LONG way…
... when that site design is conceived with a strategic online marketing foundation tailored to increasing your business goals. There is no better way for your web designers than to follow the essential design specs needed for each site development, and further the...