In this article I discuss some ineffective and/or unethical website promotion tactics. I talk about them here so that you won’t waste your time and resources pursuing them. Spamming If you’re like me, you’re sick and tired of receiving hundreds of spam messages in your mailbox every morning, and you would not consider buying anything [...]

Website promotion Internet marketing is perhaps the most important part of your Internet sales strategy. Without creativity, your website can get lost among the thousands of options awaiting surfers online. The first step in defining your website promotion Internet marketing plan is to set reachable objectives and make sure you know how to measure their [...]

I think you all know that buying pop ups in bulk is a pretty useless way to get targeted traffic to your website. You know the ads 10,000 hits for 30 bucks. Buy here is a very effective way to turn those useless banners into a targeted traffic machine!! This will takeabout half an hour [...]

What is Groupware? Have you ever had to manage document collaboration in a hurry? No need to be ashamed if you said “yes.” Virtually every American business has experienced moments of ad hoc team collaboration. In other words, the ideal business collaboration method involves meticulous record keeping and organization; all deadlines are met; nobody feels [...]

There is many things more frustrating than surfing a website only to have your screen suddenly full of pop-up advertising or a cascade of new windows opening. There are so many intrusive kinds of advertising on websites that there must be a way to deal with them. Luckily for us there is a few programs [...]

Spyware, what it is and what it does. Basically, spyware is a program put on your computer usually after you have downloaded some kind of program or went to a certain site. Once this program is on your computer, depending on what kind was put on, has the potential to monitor what you’re doing without [...]

Does your business struggle with profitable online marketing? If so, you are not alone. Attracting the right customers to a site and keeping them coming back — while also turning a profit — can be a challenge. Consequently, I’m always on the lookout for ways to demonstrate profitable online strategies. Last night, as I watched [...]

There have been a lot of changes on the web since I wrote the first edition of “Power Linking Your Way to 1 Million Hits” in 2002. Back then I told everyone that the only thing that will never change, despite search engine shake-ups and search technology improvements, is that links will always be the [...]

This month, we wanted to share some general tips relating to your graphic design that we’ve come up with over the past year: Always include an address on your business card, even if you are operating a small business out of your home – it greatly increases your credibility and makes you look much more [...]

As a search engine optimization specialist I often optimize existing web pages for small business clients, upload them to the site and see pages re-indexed by Google within a week. This only happens with existing business sites that have been online for a few years. Google seems to be updating their index as often as [...]