Archive for May, 2008

Website Architecture Questions Answered

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Hey, you’re new. We like you already! You obviously have great taste! If you like what you read here you’ll probably want to subscribe to our RSS feed (or the audio RSS feed). Stick around and be sure to speak up and post a comment or two! I’m gearing up for a 1-hour webinar that […]

Team Reading List 5.12.08

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, May 12th, 2008

Site Clinic: Content Is Key To Attracting Customers
101 Ways to Publicize Your Web Site
Have You Set Your PPC Goals for the Month? Do It Now!
Use PPC To Dominate Your Typo SEO Landscape
SEM Bootcamp: Three Steps to Creating New Content

Team Reading List

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Feel Great Naked: Confidence Boosters for Getting Personal

Do You Know Your Visitors? 5 Points to Consider

Content Strategy: Key Elements To Grab Online Readers Attention

Site Navigation and Usability: Easy Tips for Happy Users

Tips on Content Centered Link Building

5 Recommended Ways to Build Your Opt-In List

Are Internal Links Weighted the Same as External Links by Google?

Judging the National Leadership Conference

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be headed over to the Grand Sierra Resort here in Reno, NV to participate in the Business Professionals of America National Leadership Conference. I’ll be a judge for the Web Site Design Team. Yeah, I know, I’m not a designer, I’m hoping that I’ll be able to provide a good perspective […]

EMP Blog Changes and The Emergence of Pimp McFly

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, May 5th, 2008

Over the next few weeks we’ll be in the process of rolling out some pretty significant changes. First, I’ve been named Pimp McFly Associate Editor at Search Engine Guide. What this means exactly, I still haven’t been told. But I think it has something to do with blogging.
So seeing that I’ll be doing 90% […]

Team Reading List

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, May 5th, 2008

What Romance Novels Can Teach You About Powerful Copywriting

A Remedy for Blogger Inferiority Complex

Make Your Website Content Explode

Persuasive Web Design

B2B Analytics: What Should Be Measured

Why DirecTV is Losing My Heart (and Quite Possibly My Business)

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Monday, May 5th, 2008

I like to think of myself as a loyal customer. If I find a good product or service, I’ll evangelize it to death to anybody I know. While I’ve been happy with DirecTV for many years, over the past few months they are not showing me any love. In fact, I feel like I’m “old […]

Team Reading List

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Friday, May 2nd, 2008

7 ways to get more blog comments

Conversion Rate: What’s Your Website Tracking As A Conversion?

19 Tools every online entrepreneur should know and use

Social Media Marketing for Small Business

April 2008 Roundup

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Top Posts

The World’s Absolute Best Link Building Technique
20 Ways to NAVIGATE to Higher Conversions
How Poor Product Categorization Can Frustrate Shoppers and Search Engines Alike
Qualities of a Good Leader
9 (+1) Tips For Writing User-Friendly Content
7 Ways to Make Your Home Page a Home Run for Usability
Web Developers: Please Stop Using the Hx Tag as a Design […]

Webinar: Secrets to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Website

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I’ve just been tapped to conduct a webinar for the fine folks at SEMpdx. It’s an hour long webinar focused on website architecture, titled Secrets to Creating a Search Engine Friendly Website.
I’ll be covering:

Domain & URL Structure
Page & Code Structure
Link Structure

The webinar will be held Thursday, May 22 from 10 AM PST. Click here to […]

Team Reading List

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Thursday, May 1st, 2008

5 Ways to Prevent a Reputational Disaster

How Do I Grow My Blog?

5 Tips for Captivating Lists

On-Site Targeting: Crawl, Walk, Run Strategy

April 2008 Search Engine Market Share | Net Applications

posted by Stoney deGeyter on Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Google
April: 51.25%
March: 51.70%
Change: -.45
January 2008: 52.14%
Change: -0.89
Yahoo
April: 10.85%
March: 10.73%
Change: +0.12
January 2008: 10.94%
Change: -0.09
MSN
April: 5.57%
March: 4.31%
Change: +1.26
January 2008: 5.78%
Change: -0.21
AOL
April: 2.07%
March: 1.91%
Change: +0.16
January 2008: 1.86%
Change: +0.21
ASK
April: 1.04%
March: 1.03%
Change: +0.01
January 2008: 1.09%
Change: -0.05
Data scoring techniques tend to change over time making past data inaccurate. As always, information here is for entertainment purposes only.
Source: Net Applications