Category: Marketing

MOST COMMON SEO Problems

Ideas to better your search engine rankings.  1. Frames – a HUGE SEO no-no. Since new content is loaded in a new frame, every page has the same URL. Search engine’s (SEs) simply can’t properly crawl and index your site if it’s in frames. The last time I checked, Inktomi and AltaVista won’t even try indexing… Continue reading MOST COMMON SEO Problems

Leveraging LinkedIn’s Networking Power

by Cherish Flieder I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.” You may have been sent an e-mail with this exact request on more than one occasion by a friend or colleague. If you have dismissed this invitation as just another one of those time wasting, friend collecting sites, then you may… Continue reading Leveraging LinkedIn’s Networking Power

Link Popularity

It is not how good your site is, it is how good the sites are that link to you. This still holds weight with search engine favoritism. It’s about who links to you. Blogrolls, pingbacks, and trackbacks help you link to other people, which gives them credit, but it also helps them link to you,… Continue reading Link Popularity

15SecondPitch

If you never know what to say when you meet some one new or if you want to make a faboulous first impression to your potential dream client you need to check out this website! www.15secondpitch.com 15SecondPitch™ n. An introduction that is concise, compelling and conversational. No elevator required!

Statbrain.com

http://www.statbrain.com/ With Statbrain.com you can find out how many visits any site has. Statbrain uses different resources on the web combined with mathematical and statistical methods to estimate how many visits a website has. Please enter the URL of the website that you would like to check.

Vintage Ad Browser

Here is a fascinating site if you need a little design, illustration or marketing inspiration from the days of olde. See what the hippest styles and products were for any decade for since the late 1800’s and search for terms that might interest you. Airlines & Aircraft • Alcohol • Animals • Beauty & Hygiene… Continue reading Vintage Ad Browser

Your Fortune is in the Follow Up!

(Or, repeat, repeat, repeat your message!) by Ali Brown Would you blow your entire annual marketing budget on just one ad to run once during the Superbowl? Of course you wouldn’t. You know that people seeing your message just once wouldn’t be enough. Then why do we tend to spend our time and dollars on… Continue reading Your Fortune is in the Follow Up!

Mad Mimi

Here is a fresh new way to send out e-mails courtesy of my designer friend, Eva Britt. It is SO SUPER SIMPLE. Very affordable. Plus you can have a FREE account for lists up to 100. Mad Mimi

A Plethora of Twitter Tools

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com — A free blogging platform for 140-character posts, especially designed for text messaging via cellphone and instant messaging. There are millions of Twiterati. Alexa rank: 599. Twitter Search: http://search.twitter.com — Use this Twitter service to search for tweets. Twitter API Wiki: http://apiwiki.twitter.com — Twitter encourages people to create new Twitter apps using their… Continue reading A Plethora of Twitter Tools

Shorten your URLs

If you Twitter a lot and like to share links like I do, you may want to check out these sites that will shorten a long website address into something more manageable. snipurl.com bit.ly Enter a long URL to make tiny: TinyURL.com Making long URLs usable! More than 160 million of them. Over 1.5 billion… Continue reading Shorten your URLs

WebRSS

Take any Feed and convert it to display fresh content on your website or Blog for FREE! Host Any RSS Feed on Your Personalized Start Page for FREE! Create, Market and Track RSS Feeds for FREE! Webrss.com Display any RSS or Atom feeds on your website or blog! Convert RSS Feeds to Javascript, PHP, ASP… Continue reading WebRSS

Free Meta Tag Generator

http://websitesubmit.hypermart.net/metatags.htm  Meta Tags are HTML tags used to control your site description in the search engines that support them: Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, AOL Search, AltaVista, AllTheWeb (FAST), HotBot, Lycos, Infoseek (Go), Excite, and WebCrawler. It is important to have well made meta tags because they can help increase your Search Engine position.

Website Grader

Grade Your Website Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective. websitegrader.com

Tara Reed: How to Get Started in Art Licensing

Art Licensor and marketing maven, Tara Reed, has recently put her outstanding knowledge base of art licensing information in to this thoughtful and easy to understand e-book. Perfect for beginners, this 72 paged book will walk you through everything you need to know to get started putting your art on products. Tara Reed has wonderfully… Continue reading Tara Reed: How to Get Started in Art Licensing