[22 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 343 views]
Search Engine Social Media Optimization = SESMO

Search Engine Social Media optimization: SESMO

Why another acronym?
This concept is one which I coined in advent of all my customers not just wanting SEO anymore. Although over the past few years I have been integrating many “Social Media Marketing” tactics into my personal and client websites, I found that just calling it SEO (search engine optimization) wasn’t being fair to the new GIANT on the block: social media. Not only was it ok to just get search engine rankings, but with the world wide web usage statistics what the are …

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Old School SEO »

[23 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 284 views]
SEO, SEM and PPC - ASAP!

This flashback is one of my most popular articles in the beginning days of competitive SEO! Take a looksy…
Let us take a good look at acronyms in the industry! Search Engine Optimization(SEO), is a term thrown around a million times a day online. So many sites use old techniques that will get there rankings hurt or reversed with there hap-hazard web designs it frustrates me. I don’t want you to be one of them. In fact this article is aimed for creating SEEN web design projects. If you don’t use …

Philosophers Stone »

[23 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 277 views]
URL - What’s in a name?

When it comes to naming your URL it is important to be catchy, but is it more important to be relative? This is a question we all must face when we name our web site. Sometimes this is easy, for instance if you have a business names “Flowers-a-Plenty” then it’s a no brainer what you will name your site. At this point if www.flowers-a-plenty.com is not taken then of course this is the optimal decision. However, if your looking to start a flower business online is it very important to …

Designers Den »

[23 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 270 views]
Quality Web Design - The Basics

Beyond Appearance: Every design has a “sales” potential. Think about it, why do some websites sell better than others? While every site needs to be visually attractive and pleasing to the eye, effectiveness of the web site to perform for the company is what the goal of the web site should be. The key to effective web design is to convert visitors of your web site into buyers of what ever your selling (products, information, ideas, etc.) Even though we always need to keep in mind important SEO and Marketing …

Designers Den »

[23 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 273 views]
Has Your Site Been Left In The Dust?

Freshness needs to be a key ingredient to web presence as much as it needs to be a key ingredient of a good salad!
It’s important to keep your site fresh. What have you done for it lately? Design, fashions, search engines and almost every element of the internet changes (along with everything in this world). The same-ol-same-ol just doesn’t cut it in this world.
Axiom:
While we may love our current self, isn’t there always something we can improve on. For most of us (your kidding yourself if you say no) the …

Old School SEO »

[23 Dec 2008 | No Comment | 421 views]
The Quality In Your Sites Conent

This flashback article was revolutionary in it’s days when I first started out on the journey of becoming an SEO Guru. I brought it back because it’s nostalgic lesson is still true to form - “Content Is King”.
Adding quality content helps to increase your site’s traffic and gives people a reason to come back. There are numerous reason why adding content to your site is important and this article will discuss just why this is.
One of the most effective and most dependable ways to increase the amount of traffic to …