This is a quick tutorial on how to start gathering keywords to use in optimizing your website for the search engines.
The first step is to brainstorm and jot down a list of what you think the phrases are that people are using who might want what your website offers. What are the phrases that people [...]
Selling digital products online is a great way to generate nearly passive income. You create the product and then the sale and delivery is automated (depending upon what shopping cart system you are using.) I have musician clients selling mp3’s of their songs online. I know writers and experts selling digital e-books.
Generating passive income is [...]
Adding e-commerce to your blog is easy with paypal. If you have a paypal standard business account, you can easily generate sophisticated “add to cart” or “buy now” or even “donate” and “subscribe” buttons to your blog posts. This is an inexpensive way to add shopping cart options to your blog. This video shows how [...]
There are some important things to think about BEFORE you start the web design process. If you work these out before you begin, you might save yourself a lot of time and money.
1. FUNCTION
The first step to developing a web site is to figure out exactly what the function of that web site is going [...]
I encourage all of my clients to sign up for google analytics. It is free. It is easy to install on your website or blog, and it gives incredibly useful information about your website traffic.
Everybody is tightening their budgets right now, and where to place your online advertising dollars is a big question. Not only [...]
Creating an avatar image with gravatar
by Heather Goff on February 3, 2009
in Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, Tutorials
Ever wonder why images or photographs sometimes appear next to people’s comments on blogs? Those images are called avatars, and it is really easy to create an avatar image for yourself. You, too, can have a photograph or icon that will follow your comments around the internet.
Why would you want to do that? For branding, [...]
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