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Take a look around the internet these days. Check your mail, your facebook page, maybe search for some stuff on Google… before you know it you’ve sat through roughly 20 minutes of advertising in as many minutes of browsing. More and more, the trend is to make websites turn a profit by monetizing sites through paid advertising rather than through paid memberships. Content providers offer a seemingly free service in favor for paid advertisement space in their own content network.
YouTube, Pandora, and Hulu are also prime examples of what I’m talking about. They intersperse...
Here’s an interesting fact – Online Sales rose to $34 billion dollars last year to account for 5% of total retail sales. This statistic is astounding because it indicates that more small business owners are reaching out through the internet to level the playing field with giant retail stores.
This growth is because it has become easy and cost efficient for small business owners to create, own, and manage their own website complete with catalog and shopping cart. Magento is an open source E-Commerce platform that is easily setup, skinned, and configured to allow you to setup your...
I recently had a conversation with a client about Google Analytics. It occurred to me to write this article in response to some pretty standard question pertaining to what analytics is all about. In a nutshell, it’s a way to track what your website visitors are doing and where they come from. Google Analytics can be incorporated into any website.
Photo montage of New Years Eve around the world.
Photos taken around the world of New Years Eve...
You can have the most beautiful website in the world, but if no one can find it, that’s like hiding the Mona Lisa in a closet. If you have a website, you need to optimize it. The main objective when you built it was so that people would see it. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the foundation of generating traffic.
ORGANIC RESULTS
1. Most people trust organic search results. If your site is not at the top of the search listings you are losing traffic and potential clients / sales.
LOCALIZED SEARCH
2. The ways that people search have changed. Optimizing your website for local /...
Monetizing Your Site
Posted by Joe
on Feb 28th, 2010 |
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Take a look around the internet these days. Check your mail, your facebook page, maybe search for some stuff on Google… before you know it you’ve sat through roughly 20 minutes of advertising in as many minutes of browsing. More and more, the trend is to make websites turn a profit by monetizing sites through paid advertising rather than through paid memberships. Content providers offer a seemingly free service in favor for paid advertisement space in their own content network.
YouTube, Pandora, and Hulu are also prime examples of what I’m talking about. They intersperse...
ECommerce With Magento
Posted by Joe
on Feb 28th, 2010 |
no responses
Here’s an interesting fact – Online Sales rose to $34 billion dollars last year to account for 5% of total retail sales. This statistic is astounding because it indicates that more small business owners are reaching out through the internet to level the playing field with giant retail stores.
This growth is because it has become easy and cost efficient for small business owners to create, own, and manage their own website complete with catalog and shopping cart. Magento is an open source E-Commerce platform that is easily setup, skinned, and configured to allow you to setup your...
Are You Using Google Analytics?
Posted by Joe
on Feb 27th, 2010 |
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I recently had a conversation with a client about Google Analytics. It occurred to me to write this article in response to some pretty standard question pertaining to what analytics is all about. In a nutshell, it’s a way to track what your website visitors are doing and where they come from. Google Analytics can be incorporated into any website.
New Years Eve Around The World
Posted by Joe
on Jan 1st, 2010 |
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Photo montage of New Years Eve around the world.
Photos taken around the world of New Years Eve...
10 Ways SEO Can Turbo Charge Your Marketing
Posted by Joe
on Dec 18th, 2009 |
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You can have the most beautiful website in the world, but if no one can find it, that’s like hiding the Mona Lisa in a closet. If you have a website, you need to optimize it. The main objective when you built it was so that people would see it. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the foundation of generating traffic.
ORGANIC RESULTS
1. Most people trust organic search results. If your site is not at the top of the search listings you are losing traffic and potential clients / sales.
LOCALIZED SEARCH
2. The ways that people search have changed. Optimizing your website for local /...
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