SEO Alert – Page Experience Preparation

SEO Alert – Page Experience Preparation

Google rarely provides the SEO community with significant advanced notice of an impending change to their algorithm. Events such as mobile friendly where advanced notice was provided proved to be a significant impact for website owners that were not prepared, and a...
Capitalizing on the Remote Employee Environment

Capitalizing on the Remote Employee Environment

Over the last 25 years I have managed remote teams distributed geographically all around the globe. Early on in my career I embraced remote employees as I was recruiting talent in Northern California in startups competing against significantly larger companies....
Google AdWords Tips and Tricks

Google AdWords Tips and Tricks

Easily you can find a hundred books on Amazon outlining how you can get rich quick with Google AdWords. While there may have been a period of time where Google was gaining adoption where that statement may be true, it is not an easy task today. The competition that...
Search Engine Optimization & Affiliates

Search Engine Optimization & Affiliates

One of the little known secrets of search engine optimization is leveraging affiliates. Affiliates work day in and day out providing information about your brand and products and attach hyperlinks that direct traffic to your website. While the benefit is not as good...
Avoid Platform Migration Dead Ends

Avoid Platform Migration Dead Ends

Platform migrations are always a risky activity. Do I have the technical resources I need? Do I need to worry about the impact to my marketing channels? Are there best practices to follow? There are a ton of questions and you are right to seek the answers to each and...
SEO for Developers

SEO for Developers

The reality in the development world today is that SEO counts. If you are seeking to increase your marketability as a web developer, engineer, and or architect you better learn the fine points of search engine optimization. The website platforms of tomorrow will...
The Value of Affiliates

The Value of Affiliates

AmWay, Avon, and MaryKay are just a handful of companies that have a model that relies on sales representatives or associates for the sale and marketing of their products. Each of these companies has been around for years using the model successfully. In the online...
Paid Search and SEO Synergies

Paid Search and SEO Synergies

Far too often SEO and Paid Search personnel are not working as a team and are actually in a competitive state. This may work in the short-term, but over time the competition increases expense for the company and reduces the overall traffic and conversion. A strong...
Affiliate Tricks – What to Look Out For

Affiliate Tricks – What to Look Out For

Affiliate programs are basically the cyber way of creating sales representatives for your business. Startup websites can rapidly grow their traffic and sales through the use of an affiliate program. At the heart of an affiliate program is the affiliate network....
Optimizing Paid Search Programs

Optimizing Paid Search Programs

Paid Search managers are always under the gun to bring more traffic and more revenue, but there is always a budget involved. Out of all of the marketing channels Paid Search is one of the most challenging. Keywords that are performing well this week may perform poorly...
Open Source Platforms

Open Source Platforms

Open Source software is an excellent way to create a new web presence. Typically with Open Source software you will save money, decrease time to launch, and can take advantage of a large community devoted to working with Open Source platforms. For readers who are new...
Website Contracts – Rules of Engagement

Website Contracts – Rules of Engagement

Regardless of how much you may spend on the development of a website there are a few basic rules of engagement you will want to follow with any firm and or contractor working with your website. Without a doubt the highest risk in setting up a website contract is...