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Found 17 blog articlesStarting a Successful E-Mail Marketing Campaign
Posted: 24th November 2009Nowadays, e-mail marketing has become the trend. Unfortunately, I've seen quite a few mistakes and done some too. Few years back I have lost few clients not because of the content being delivered, but as I had no idea what requirements were required to host your own application. Don't worry, there's no need to develop a customized system, in fact I suggest you don't. There are few options available which can help you succeed with your e-mail marketing campaign.
Do your research
Do you wish to develop and/or host a mailing list system on your server?There are few ...
What to Know as a Web Designer when Buying a Reseller Hosting Plan
Posted: 16th July 2009What do you need to know about buying a reseller hosting plan? As a web designer, there are several good reasons why you will want to do this.consider a reseller hosting plan.
Why a Web Designer Should Buy a Reseller Hosting Plan: 1. One-Stop Shopping
When clients comes to you looking for websites, they probably want to put it all in your hands. They may be turned off by hearing that they have to go somewhere else to secure their domain name and hosting. If you have a reseller hosting plan, you can do it all.
Why ...
Tips to Improve Visitors Bounce Rate
Posted: 21st June 2009Bounce rate is the percentage or amount of visitors who leave your website after arriving at the entry page. These are visitors who ‘bounce away’ after arriving without viewing other pages on your website. You can easily find your website’s bounce rate by using statistics tools like Google Analytics.
A low bounce rate means that visitors are exploring your website in greater detail meaning that they are more engaged with your content. High bounce rates of over 60% require immediate attention. Below find some tips to help you reduce your bounce rate and increase visitors’ loyalty....
Patterns in Software Explained
Posted: 29th May 2009Routines are what we live every day. These can be short run, such as going to work and eating, as well as long run, such as dressing warm for winter or even watch a son or daughter grow. Even though sometimes an event might seem out of the routine, in most cases it has already occurred somewhere else, maybe in another era. In the case of long run routines where the loop cannot be seen clearly it is better to be noticed on a group of people rather than one single person, since the probability of having a particular event ...
Web Development for Systematic Website Creation and Functioning
Posted: 10th May 2009Developing and building a website is a stepwise process requiring professional handling and outlook. Many options are available in the market for designing a website and keep it running. There are many good web development tools available for the website builders. The first and foremost thing is to decide on the aim of your website and for what purpose it is being created. It can be just to convey any information or for any buying and selling purpose. In case the website is developed for personal use like sharing the information regarding certain products, interests, market research, etc with family, ...
SEO Tips to Design Your Website
Posted: 18th January 2009Search Engine Optimization is affected on how your webpages are built. Knowing how to structure your website is a crucial aspect, especially for beginners, as it can drastically improve rankings on search engines. This article will cover few tips and tricks to enhance your website design for better rankings.
Fast Communication – Online users tend to close websites which take long to load or aren’t relevant to what they have been searching for. Your website should give out what it wants to give out at first glance. The first few seconds are very important; it will help decide ...
6 Search Engine Marketing Strategies
Posted: 19th October 2008Search engine marketing involves keeping your content fresh, using keywords that put you at the top of the first page and obtaining as many links to your site from other websites as possible.
Pleasing the Search Engines
1. Search engines love updated content. Pay attention to which sites show on the first page and you will notice that among the sites in keyword competition, it is the sites with the most updated content that win out. Either write your own articles and upload your own graphics and photos or outsource the job to freelancers.
There are many freelancers who write ...
5 Ways to Enhance Your Blog
Posted: 8th September 2008Blogging has turned out to be one of the most popular activities on the Internet and one of the best ways for internet marketing. The great thing about it is that it's free and really easy! Creating a blog has been made so simple and effective and the support is so good that you can have a complete blog set up in a couple of hours!!
There are 5 ways to enhance your blog.
1. Make your blogs search engine optimised. Make your blog rich in keywords. This will increase traffic to your blog and make your blog profitable for you....
Collecting Information on Your Competitors
Posted: 5th September 2008Collecting information about your competitors makes good business sense. However, you must do so in an ethical and reasonable way. Competitive intelligence from public sources, customers, and third parties can help businesses predict market opportunities, trends and competitive strengths and weaknesses.
This article will help acquire the requested information without crossing the line.
1. Ask questions - If you come across or are offered competitive information and believe that it may be confidential or proprietary ask questions to find out how the information was obtained, or why it was made available.
2. Be ethical - How would you or your business ...
Regular Text Improves SEO
Posted: 14th August 2008What triggers popularity with a search engine has always been vague. You have to change how you market your website and even build it to hit top rankings from search results. For someone new on the scene, it can appear to be a intimidating task. Here in this article we will look at the latest basics in SEO and SEM by starting with the site itself.
First thing is what NOT to do. Remember back when websites would have massive keyword lists at the bottom or top of the pages? These words were paragraphs long and didn't make any sense ...
Feedback is well appreciated for madicted
Posted: 25th May 2008Howdy mates, It's been a while since my last post, but was busy with some other ongoing projects.
As some of you might have noticed, I tweaked the home page and other sections from other pages for a better visual appearance and improved functionality. I am also upgrading few other sections from madicted in the small amount of time I have available.
This time I would like to have some feedback from you. If you have any good ideas how to improve madicted, or new sections and pages as well as upgrades to improve functionality, please let me know by ...
Three Steps to Start your Online Business
Posted: 27th April 2008You have decided to start your online business, now you have to figure out where to start. When starting your online business, there are three steps to put a website together.
Step 1 Registering a domain name. Finding the right domain name is the most important step. A domain name will improve the value of your online business identity; make sure you register the most adequate domain name. This would typically be www.yourbusinessname.com assuming it is available, or register a country code domain such as www.yourbusinessname.com.mt mostly used to enhance search results to a specific country. ...
5 Smart Ways to Increase Your Rankings
Posted: 4th March 2008Write great titles
An important attribute of any website in SEO terms in the title tag of each page. Make sure all of your pages have unique title tags and that they are descriptive in regards to the pages content. Try not to stuff too many keywords in there as don't forget, these titles show up in the SERPS results and if written well can mean more clickthroughs. So if I was targeting "Dating Malta" and maybe "Online Dating" keywords I could have good title that was both readable by humans and beneficial to the search engines. So the ...
7 Marketing Mistakes to Avoid when Promoting your Business
Posted: 1st March 2008Many people rush into business thinking it will be easy to run, but very soon they realize that it is not as easy as it looks. A successful business is a finely tuned machine. In order to keep your business running smoothly it is important to avoid making mistakes. Here are the 7 most common mistakes to avoid: 1. Not having clear objectives: Many business people start a business without clear objectives. They fail to set realistic goals for their marketing and consequently set themselves up for failure. It is important to make a list of goals and objectives based on a ...
Beating The Long Tail
Posted: 16th February 2008The long tail is a phrase that was first coined in 2004 by Chris Anderson. It refers, in the case of search and search engines, to the fact that a collection of less popular keywords can collectively create more traffic than a single, high power keyword. This can prove especially useful for the webmaster of a site in a highly competitive industry. However, it can also prove effective for any website in any industry.
In general terms, the fewer words that a search phrase has, the more popular it is likely to be. This is a sweeping generalization, but the ...
The Importance of Building Search Engine Friendly Websites
Posted: 31st January 2008There are many aspects in regards to search engine optimisation. There are on-page procedures such as optimising Meta tags, titles, page copy, URLs, alt tags and the like. We also know that another important aspect is off-page SEO whereby a lot of time and effort is put in order to obtain quality inbound links to your site. This normally takes the shape of directory submission, article writing and submission, competition analysis, social media marketing and blogging to name a few. These are all crucial elements of search engine optimisation and are a major part of any SEO specialist's daily chores. ...
SE Tactics: How to Avoid Alienating the Major Search Engines
Posted: 31st January 2008Each of the major search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN have quality webmaster guidelines in place to prevent the unfair manipulation of search engine rankings by unscrupulous website owners. These webmaster guidelines change frequently to 'weed' out any new deceptive practices and those websites found engaging in these prohibited practices are consequently dropped from the search engine rankings of the major search engine they have offended. Being banned or dropped from the search engine rankings can have dire effects on your website traffic, online sales generation and site popularity. Especially if your website is classified as a 'bad neighborhood' site, ...