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MT-Soft Website Development - Quality Websites, Co MT-Soft Website Development - Quality Websites, Co MT-Soft is a unique design firm offering services from basic Website Design to complete e-commerce website development. Free code and tools for webmasters. Articles
SEO Standards Debate is Back - But Something?s Missing?
2008-04-07 16:05:00 Posted by randfish In case you haven’t seen the litany of content around the search marketing world regarding SEO Standards , here’s a short re-cap. The issue arose (this time around) when Danny Sullivan made Is it Time for Search Marketing Standards? a panel at SMX West in February. You can see the SERoundtable coverage here. In late ... More About: Debate , Back , Missing
Smorty.com - A Blog Review Opportunity from Australia
2008-04-07 15:45:00 I was blogtreading when I got one referring me to a site that offered me to get paid for blogging about its advertisers. I followed the link and seconds later, I finished the sign-up process. The next day, an e-mail from Smorty congratulates me as its new member. Now I can explore the site and ... More About: Australia , Internet Marketing , Review , Blog , Opportunity
Gaming on a Mac
2008-04-05 22:18:00 On December 2007, one of my life-long dreams became true, I got a Mac Laptop. A MacBook Pro to be precise.What a rush!. And I also wanted to find something good to do on my MacBook Pro when I’m not working as a web designer. And then I found MacPokerOnline.com, in my humble view, ... More About: Gaming
Viral Marketing Idea Friday - Start Some Controversy!
2008-04-05 02:05:00 I just could not help myself with todays “viral marketing idea” post. This is almost so unbelievable (but not) that its crazy. You will learn why (in just a minute) how there is something wrong with me, and even in the situation I was in, I could not stop thinking about how I ... More About: Marketing , Viral , Viral Marketing , Idea , Start
(Day After) Thursday Roundup for the Week of 3/30/08
2008-04-05 01:05:00 Posted by rebecca Yesterday I had my roundup all written and when I hit "Publish" the blog editor decided to just instead refresh and wipe half my post. Sorry for the delay–here you go. Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week: Two star links: Though this article mentions some SEO rockstars (Dave Naylor, ... More About: Roundup , Week , Thursday
Watch your favourite TV and radio shows from your PC
2008-04-04 23:07:00 Most people don’t know that they are able to access online many of the radio stations and TV channels they normally watch, for free. I haven’t subscribed to the newspaper for a while now and find I didn’t really miss the news (which I got from local TV channels), thanks to Use Freedom TV, one ... More About: Radio , Watch , Communications
Whiteboard Friday - Tracking Non-Traditional Conversions
2008-04-04 11:10:00 Posted by great scott! This week Rand discusses some non-sale conversions you might find on your site–things like RSS feed subscribers, email newsletter sign ups, views of the pricing/services page, etc.–but you might not be tracking. While these actions might not result in direct sales, they can often indicate what’s working and not working in your marketing ... More About: Whiteboard , Friday , Tracking , Traditional
Credit Card Processing for Small Business
2008-04-04 04:01:00 We all know that having a Credit Card Processing service is essential to our business. Then again, the first question that pops to our mind is “Credit Card Processing should we opt for?” If you’re still undecided about what’s the best way to enable your site to Accept Credit Cards, then onlinecheck.com is the best ... More About: Business , Small Business , Internet Marketing
Brighten your future with IT technical training
2008-04-03 19:10:00 Do you like IT? Do you want to have a career in IT? If your answer to either question is YES, then you may want to consider upgrading your skills and education in a technical school to help you get your career on the track. But which one? There are so many tech schools ... More About: Technical , Future , Training
Use your webcam to broadcast your own live show
2008-04-03 12:10:00 In my daily search for new, cool web applications, I’ve come across a site called blogTV.com. They are a good bunch of people helping you to gain fame by broadcasting your own live show, right from your webcam. Are you a video reviewer or someone whom wants to get famous using videos? Then you better read ... More About: Broadcast , Show , Live , Webcam
Google to spin off search marketing side of Performics
2008-04-03 02:10:00 I’m crunching on a bunch of work stuff today, but I wanted to point out this official Google blog post briefly: Since we closed the acquisition of DoubleClick on March 11, we?ve been immersed in integration planning for each of our products and business units. Recently we completed this process for the DoubleClick Performics businesses, and ... More About: Marketing , Search , Spin , Side
8 Questions You Should Ask on Every Project
2008-03-18 01:10:00 In Question Your Work, Jason Fried lists 8 questions to ask yourself (or your team) when you work on something. This concept of questioning what you are doing is especially relevant to the arena of web design, which is notorious (in my experience) for having few — if any — criteria for success and for not ... More About: Questions , Project
So Many Ways to Pursue Links and So Little Time
2008-03-17 21:10:00 Posted by Eric Enge One great way to get lots of links is to launch a massive media campaign. This works particularly well if you are a large brand. What if you aren’t? Well then, you are at a disadvantage. Massive media campaigns are great ways to get lots of links, and major ... More About: Time , Links
FTC Orders ValueClick to Pay 2.9 Million
2008-03-17 21:10:00 Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please the Mozzers, We’re keeping Legal Monday short and sweet to bring you this breaking news. As many of you know, Valueclick and its subsidiaries, Hi-Speed Media and E-Babylon, have been under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") for alleged violations of the Can-Spam Act and failure to protect ... More About: Million , Orders
March Madness 2008!
2008-03-17 01:10:00 March Madness is here again, baby! The brackets have been released, and the University of North Carolina is a #1 seed. The wonderful thing about attending the University of Kentucky for undergrad and then UNC in grad school is that I’ve always got great teams to root for in March. If you’re a fan, ... More About: March Madness , March , 2008
Results of Google Experimentation - Only the First Anchor Text Counts
2008-03-16 21:10:00 Posted by randfish Before I was inundated with the responsibilities of running a company and managing a few hundred emails a day, I used to spend a lot of time testing theories about how the search engines handled certain elements on a site or page. I’d test the engines to find answers to questions like: Does a ... More About: Google , Results , Text
Comparing Web Hosting solutions - Not hard anymore
2008-03-16 15:29:00 Have you always wanted to build your very own website but you can’t find a good, reliable host? Good hosts come and go. I myself have personal experience on shaky hosts. They were nice and cheap at the beginning but later on they tried to rip me off my money in every way possible. But this ... More About: Hosting , Web Hosting , Hard , Solutions
After QCon London 2008
2008-03-15 19:10:00 This week has mostly been taken up with QCon London . I spent most of Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday here, and I thought that I’d take the opportunity to write up some of my impressions and thoughts about the sessions I attended. First, in general the conference definitely didn’t disappoint me. It held at least as ... More About: Programming , 2008
Whiteboard Friday - Inside Webmaster Central with Susan Moskwa
2008-03-15 01:10:00 Posted by great scott! This week, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst, Susan Moskwa, stops by Whiteboard studios to discuss some of the wonderful features that lie within Webmaster Central . From how to use the Google Groups Webmaster Help Forum, to covering your bases before submitting for reinclusion, their new iGoogle gadgets, how to verify subfolders for geo-targeting ... More About: Friday , Inside
Get More Traffic: 18 Social Media Sites for Web Designers
2008-03-15 01:10:00 Yes, it’s great to get your article on the front page of Digg’s design section — you get a huge traffic spike; hopefully your site stays up; you get a bunch of snarky comments — but it’s not exactly easy to do. Fortunately, there are alternatives. Here are 18 web design-related social media sites that are ... More About: Social , Media , Traffic , Sites , Designers
Viral Marketing Idea Friday - Lasik Surgery Center
2008-03-14 19:10:00 Just wanted to share a quick idea for this weeks “VMIF”, and apologize for not being able to post last week. Last Wednesday I woke up with severe pains that ended up putting me in the hospital for a few days because of a need to get my appendix removed. I am still ... More About: Marketing , Lasik , Viral , Viral Marketing , Idea
Buying Website Optimization And SEO Services. How to avoid getting stung
2008-03-10 19:40:00 Would You Like High Search Engine Rankings in Google, Yahoo or MSN? Of course! Who wouldn’t? Website s with high search engine rankings have high profit margins because organic search traffic is free! That makes a very good case for high return on investment. But getting to the top of the search engines takes a lot of ... More About: Services , Buying , Optimization , Avoid
The Bizarre Economy of Links - Portland SEMpdx Keynote
2008-03-10 10:10:00 Posted by randfish Tonight I’m in Portland for tomorrow’s SEMpdx Searchfest conference, where I’ll be giving a keynote address at 9am on The Algorithmic Evolution of Search Engines and the Impact on Search Marketing Campaigns. Like most keynotes, it’s designed to be more of a broad overview, focusing on understanding the hows and whys of modern ... More About: Economy , Keynote , Links , Bizarre
Summer of Code 2008: 21 potential projects
2008-03-10 10:10:00 Yay! Google is opening up its “Summer of Code ” for 2008 . Google’s Summer of Code program encourages students to tackle open-source projects over the summer break. For a 2-3 more days, sponsor organizations are invited to apply and then students can apply starting March 24th. I’ve been thinking about some projects that I’d enjoying seeing. ... More About: Projects
Trademark Law and Domain Names: ACPA or UDRP?
2008-03-10 10:10:00 Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please the Mozzers, Happy Legal Monday! Fuel up on that caffeine because today I want to discuss how trademark law plays out in the course of a domain name dispute. We’re going to compare and contract the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act with I-CANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy. As ... More About: Domain Names , Trademark , Names
YouTube?s New #1 Video: The Unprecedented Rise and the Mobocracy that Led t
2008-03-09 01:10:00 Posted by Danny Dover On March 04, 2008, the internet community saw the culmination of the world’s most successful video marketing campaign. With 80 million views in 2 months, Clarus Bartel’s homemade music video dethroned the Evolution of Dance as the most viewed video of all time on YouTube. This simplistic video shook the YouTube community ... More About: Video , Youtube , Rise
How does satellite Internet operate? When is it worth subscribing?
2008-03-08 14:49:00 How do you access the Internet other than dial-up if you live too far from a DSL provider and there is no cable anywhere near your home? Satellite Internet access (such as the one provided by HughesNet, StarBand, Pegasus Express, Teledesic and Tachyon) may be worth considering. It’s ideal for Internet users who live ... More About: Hardware , Worth
First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
2008-03-08 01:10:00 So Microsoft released the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 to the public the other day. Press releases and documents on the IE 8 site contain plenty of exciting promises of new and improved features, such as: Full and complete CSS 2.1 support Partial CSS 3 support Better JavaScript performance Fixes for a number of long-standing JavaScript bugs Built-in developer ... More About: Internet Explorer , First Impressions , Beta
Get More Traffic: 17 Social Media Sites for Web Designers
2008-03-08 01:10:00 Yes, it’s great to get your article on the front page of Digg’s design section — you get a huge traffic spike; hopefully your site stays up; you get a bunch of snarky comments — but it’s not exactly easy to do. Fortunately, there are alternatives. Here are 17 web design-related social media sites that are ... More About: Social , Media , Traffic , Sites , Designers
Whiteboard Friday-SMX West Interviews: Dennis Mortensen on Tracking Traffic
More articles from this author:2008-03-08 01:10:00 Posted by great scott! Our Week o’ Whiteboard s draws to a close with the last of our SMX West interviews. This time we’ve got IndexTools COO, Dennis Mortensen, at the board to talk about what you need to look for when tracking traffic spikes on your site. As Dennis explains, a big spike in traffic isn’t always ... More About: Interviews , Traffic , Friday 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
