WordPress Sites For Small Business
All businesses must have a webisite these days. I am not saying this because I am a web designer. The following reasons are compelling Your website is an online brochure. (24/7) People can check out your services/products before contacting you A great marketing and advertising tool Lends credibility to your business. Use it to send […]
Short Lesson in SEO
If you are a small business owner you will want to generate leads through your website. If you are clever these leads can be free. To make this happen you have to rank well in search engines like Google, Yahoo & Bing. This post tells you how to do quick SEO for your site. This […]
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 […]
Link Building
Search Engines place a lot of importance on links that are pointing to your website. Who links and how they link to you are what determines where your site will rank for competitive search queries. When we write content for our sites – about our products/services or about our strengths we tend to overdo & […]
Create Killer Graphics In Less Than Five Minutes
I tried on the online image creation program Snappa a few days ago. I needed to update my cover image for Facebook and Twitter pages. I read about Snappa from a marketing email that I receive. The email said that I could create an image for my blog or social media in less than five […]
Google to abandon older browsers
A recent news item stated “Google to abandon older browsers “. Google is phasing out support for older browsers from 1 August. Those using IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors to view Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites will then lose some functions. Eventually, it warned, these web services will stop working […]
The future of Internet
I read a very interesting article today on the BBC website. The article traced the advent of Internet and how it has grown with a huge impact on the global population. We do banking, shopping, learn, interact with family and friends through the Internet. Take me for example, I don’t think I can live without […]
How Mobile has changed how we get things done
Smartphones are popular research tool when consumers need to make important decisions based on personal values. Marketers should consider their brand’s unique value proposition, and think about how this aligns with the key attributes their audience cares about. Brands that provide easily discoverable, relevant and timely information—such as product descriptions and reviews—will be positioned to […]
Why Spotify went down on Friday
Friday morning on the east coast of the USA people started their day to access the Internet to read the news, tweet or post in forums like Reddit. But most people had trouble accessing sites like Spotify, New York Times, Reddit and many more. There was a DDoS attack that took down a big chunk […]
What Is SEO Copywriting?
To get a clearer idea of what we are talking about, let’s have a quick look at the term itself. For that, let’s look at the two parts that make up the word: “SEO” and “copywriting”. SEO— SEO or search engine optimisation is a method of optimising your web content in order to rank higher in search […]