The new gTLD (Generic Top-Level Domains) program may change the way you go to a website – therefore devaluing the .com extension. This means companies, individuals, or whoever will be able to create and purchase their own extensions. An example would be Apple registering the .apple extension. This would enable them to create addresses such…
If you’ve been hesitant to start a Twitter page for any reason, don’t wait any longer. Get on it! Twitter, which was founded in 2006, has quickly risen to be the second most popular Website (Website Magazine Oct. 2010), just behind Facebook and just one step ahead of LinkedIn. You can open a Twitter account…
It seems ridiculous doesn’t it, to say “The Web is Dead.” But, that is exactly what Wired Magazine posed in an article this week. The Internet though, is going no-where. So what’s the difference between the Web and the Internet?
External links to your site are one of the most important factors in getting ranked on Google. The first, of course, is content. If you don’t have good content other sites won’t link to you. If you do have good content, maximize its potential by finding out where the content would be useful. For example,…
Use of meta keywords for Google traffic died out somewhere in the late nineties when Google realized meta keywords were at times only being used by webmasters to get hits, with no regard for relevant content. The tactic is no longer useful for Google results. The company has stated they no longer look at meta…
External links and site content are the most important factors in how Google ranks a website. You may have heard the term “Content is King” in your SEO explorations. Well time and time again it has been proven good content is rewarded with more link-backs. The perfect situation for webmaster or blogger is to have…
Recent talk about DMOZ (The Open Directory Project) being a waste of time has been emerging on the web. It was once standard for search engine optimization and web marketing experts to submit sites to DMOZ.org to increase Google page rank. DMOZ was at one time a backup Google website directory because of its manually edited…
There are so many bloggers out there, last I heard there are as many blog sites as websites. But many of you want to start a blog with your own name, without having to use the wordpress, typepad, blogspot following it. So, for instance you may want to have royscollectibles.com rather than royscollectibles.typepad.com. It’s a…
Have you noticed black text isn’t used as much anymore on websites? Sure it is still used as a background color and is one of the strongest branding colors you can use. But black for your body copy? That’s so last decade. Many sites are using variations of greys these days. The basic web palette…
E-Commerce sites don’t have to cost as much as they used to. Seasoned web developers will tell you a shopping cart in the ol’ days would cost in the tens of thousands. One of the first e-commerce sites I worked on progressed into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, as the retailer kept finding a…