Google has introduces “freshness” of content into its algorithms. So when you type in a keyword or phrase the top results will be for the freshest content for the search term. Old outdated content will be penalised and pushed down. This adds a new dimension to search engine optimisation. If you think about this websites [...]
08
Jun
Web 2.0 Web Site – part 2
This is a continuation of my last post” Why your business should have a web 2.0 website” I hear this often when I tell my clients to use social media to get more leads – “I’m too old. I don’t understand Social Media stuff.” Social media is another networking method. Think of it as a [...]
10
May
Small Business Blogs
Why should small businesses have blogs? It is the easiest way of interacting with your customers, prospects. Once it is set up even if you post once in 3 weeks or once every month it adds value to your existing customers. Write a marketing message, announce new products an services have contests – anything to [...]
09
Mar
Website gets many compliments…
One of my customers who owns a boat tour business down the west coast of scenic South Island gets a lot of compliments for her website. She used to have a simple HTML site. I revamped the site for her about a year ago to a WordPress site. She saw a good jump in her [...]
02
Sep
Pixels is getting revamped
I am working on making this site more up to date with look and feel. Of course it will still beon WordPress. Just revamping the look. Hopefully it will be completed by this weekend. I can’t stress more on having a wordpress site. Looking at my blog stats I have watched my traffic grow so [...]
26
Aug
website design that works
For a small business your website is a working horse. Make it work to your advantage As you can see, the new site has a ton of features the old site doesn’t: Have a good clean professional looking design information that will generate a sale or booking should be visible clearly at the top of [...]
04
Aug
Music downloads
I read this news yesterday. A US student ordered to pay $675,000 (£404,000) for sharing music online has refused help paying the fine. Mr Tenenbaum was ordered to pay the money to four record labels. On Friday, the jury ordered Mr Tenebaum to pay $22,500 for each infringement. The maximum that he could have been [...]
14
Jul
15 benefits of WordPress sites
editing without needing to know HTML easy to update current events – takes a few minutes No uploading of files – like static HTML sites post-dating of articles so they can automatically “go live” in the future reader participation through comments organization of the content using tags – these are like signposts for search engines [...]
01
Jul
DIY
I am in the process of updating a WordPress manual I created a while ago. Hopefully I will finish it in a week or so. The manual is a couple of versions behind now. The purpose of the manual is to help people quickly put up a simple self hosted wordpress site. This can be [...]
17
Jun
Online advertising skyrockets
Industry watchers predict that overall online ad spending will increase by about 3 percent for the next two years, for a total of about $29.1 billion in 2010. The growth is being driven by search engine advertising (especially pay-per-click), which is expected to jump 13 percent by 2010. Also growing rapidly is “Web 2.0? advertising [...]
