4 Optimization Experts Critique a College Break Landing Page | The Daily Egg

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  If you have heard it once you have heard it a thousand times, the value is in the list. Well then, how do you build a gargantuan list. Hint the landing page. This part is really what I would say is one of the most significant pieces of the success puzzle. Learn them good. [...]

Responsive Web Design?

Responsive web design? What is that, and do I need it after spending all of this money on my website? Answer is: Yes, you should look into spending the money to make your already fabulous website into a responsive design. Why? Because responsive design allows your website to be seen correctly on all sorts of [...]

Why I get lots of traffic from StumbleUpon

It’s no secret that StumbleUpon is one of the best social media traffic generators, yet many disregard it. Here’s how my website’s traffic has benefited from StumbleUpon. I’m often asked where I get my traffic from and currently Stumble Upon combined with Twitter are my top referral sites. Most people who read my blog know [...]

How To Make Sure You Have Next Generation Site Architecture

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As you will see from reading this article, it is more than just responsive website design, although that is part of it. Great article on getting all the bases covered with a well thought out plan for creating the new and improved website. The need to be design and deploy a next-generation site architecture that [...]

Pinstamatic Pimps Pinterest, Allows for Sharing of Websites, Texts and Places

You know that the social network Pinterest limits itself to the sharing of visual media, images foremost. Even though this is surely part of its success, there are times when you’d like to share other content, especially when the content is not available as an image. In these cases, Pinstamatic, a new service to extend [...]

Banners, buttons and text links: an experiment in conversion

Banners, buttons and text links: an experiment in conversion Much is written about conversions from various types of page real estate, but few share that data.Working with the team at Live Casino we have spent the past 12 months looking at how different call to actions affect click through and uncovered some interesting findings around [...]

The State of SEO: What’s Working Now

There is no doubt that SEO has changed a lot over the last 12 months. I remember the days when SEOs, including me, focused our time and energy on boosting our rankings. We would track all of our keywords and watch them go up as we built links. And although some SEOs still do this, [...]

17 Best WordPress Plugins for Social Media, SEO, and Better Visitor Engagement in 2013

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Every year I share my own experiences using WordPress plugins to run Windmill Networking to help you make your own website more social media optimized, SEO friendly, and even help convert more of your visitors into new leads. I say “website” because WordPress is not just for blogs: As a CMS,WordPress powers one of every 6 websites on [...]

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos

Instagram said today that it has the perpetual right to sell users’ photographs without payment or notification, a dramatic policy shift that quickly sparked a public outcry. The new intellectual property policy, which takes effect on January 16, comes three months after Facebook completed its acquisition of the popular photo-sharing site. Unless Instagram users delete [...]

Build A Better Website: For Business Owners

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It ‘s almost as common as doing deals at Starbucks. Today’s entrepreneurs are now also digital marketers. They design websites, or blog, do some serious Google ad spending while setting up a requisite Facebook Page.

:: 25 Awesome Virtual Learning Experiences Online – Virtual Education Websites ::

25 websites featuring awesome virtual learning experiences.   Just because you’re online doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world first-hand — or as close to first-hand as possible. Here are websites that feature virtual learning experiences, exposing online visitors to everything from history to geography, astronomy to anatomy, literature to government. See on www.aceonlineschools.com

:: Google Now Reporting 100% of Penalized Sites via Direct Manual Actions ::

See on Scoop.it – Information Economy “Wondering if some human at Google has reviewed your web site and decided it deserves to be penalized in Google’s search results? Google’s now reporting such cases nearly 100% of the time.”   Robin Good: Danny Sullivan reports on Search Engine Land from the Pubcon conference where Matt Cutts [...]