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Watch that spelling!!

Please take this time to learn from my mistake. I recently extinguished a forrest fire because i misspelled one word in a keyword meta tag. I have a client that was threatened with a lawsuit over the letter “C”. That’s right..the letter...

Writing for Two Entities: Search Engines and People

Today begins a new life for the Work Media (“ICanBeFound”) blog. We will now be updating the blog almost every day with short articles related to Internet marketing, along with longer, more in-depth articles that will be available through the Work Media...

Notes from the Internet Retailer Conference: Growing Business with Loyalty Programs

Jerry attended the Internet Retailer conference in Chicago and will be writing a series of articles about it. The first one is below. Also, we recently released our first book, an online marketing guide entitled “Aggressive Online Marketing Fundamentals: the...

Critical Landing Page Copy Considerations

Well-crafted landing pages are critical to the success of an Internet marketing campaign. First, just what is a landing page? A landing page is a special page set up to achieve some kind of action, such as making a sale or getting the visitor to fill in a form, that a...

Critical Considerations BEFORE Building Your Web Site

I am currently managing the search engine optimization efforts for a large ecommerce site, and I gotta say – it’s a mess. My employer paid a large sum of money to a web development firm in Michigan to develop a complicated ecommerce site that is full of...

Gotta Have Link Partners

No matter how solid the content is on your web site or how optimized your pages are, if you are lacking in “off-the-page” factors, you may have difficulty obtaining high search engine rankings. You need other web pages pointing to your site. Ideally, you...

Classic Business Wisdom: Sell Benefits, not Features

When you are writing copy and designing offers for your web site, you have got to keep in mind classic marketing wisdom because web copy has the same goal as advertising copy – to get the prospect to take action. This action may be to purchase a product, or it...

URL Rewriting for Dummies

If your web site is dynamic, meaning its content is stored and retrieved from a database (for example, an ecommerce site that stores its products in a database or any site that uses a content management system, or CMS), then you are at a disadvantage with regards to...

Make more money by spending less: Optimizing PPC landing pages

Launching a successful Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaign is more than creating compelling ads. You need to place just as much emphasis on where you’re sending these visitors. When a visitor locates your product or service in a PPC ad you certainly don’t want to send this...

Search Engine Optimization: Analytics, Keywords and Research

Many of you have asked, “Why does our site rank for this keyword, but not this one”. Therefore, I would like to explain our process of selecting keywords for our marketing efforts.Most companies measure the success of an SEO marketing campaign by one thing: search...