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Responsive website design (also sometimes called adaptive web design) refers to websites created within a flexible grid. The reason for designing a website in this way is so that no matter what resolution, window size or device someone is using to view it, it should appear and function properly for them. If done correctly, using Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3) Media Queries and HTML5, the site design should reorient and resize itself to fit a browser or device automatically.
About ten months ago online businesses were impacted, some severely, by a search engine algorithm change called ‘Panda.’ On that outing, the major search engines switched up the criteria their spiders and bots use when crawling a website. By reprioritizing what techniques search engines ‘look for’ Panda sought out and penalized sites that search engines perceived to be ‘over optimized’ with ‘spam’ techniques.
By now most online business owners have heard that the major search engines like to ‘mix it up a bit’ from time to time. This ‘mix up’ is called an ‘algorithm shift.’ One day your keywords are ranking well and seemingly, the next they’re nowhere to be found on the first two pages. What’s going on and what to do
Let’s begin with a bit of history; Search Engine Optimization initially started its debut on the Internet during the 1990’s, the term “Search Engine Optimization” was introduced by an Internet Marketing Group during the year of 1997 in an effort to define the steps needed to improve Search Engine Positioning.
Many times, over the last 8 years, I have had the same conversation with clients over one specific topic. If I am ranking high in the organic ad listings why do I need to bid on them in PPC? My normal response to them is “why wouldn’t you”.
The Internet has evolved into this amazing machine and PPC (Pay Per Click) has been every part of that evolution in the past 10 plus years. The effect this machine has had in our lives is substantial.
If you are reading this article, chances are you have a business, it has a website, and you aren’t making enough money that you need something better to do than look for more information. Sometimes, in the nature of the day's to do, we all forget that we have a very powerful ally in marketing our brains, and more importantly, not procrastinating.
There are several obvious ways to answer this question, which I will go through quickly, but I am most thinking about the not so obvious answers. The very obvious answer is that you can measure the value of a ranking, in its raw form, as exactly how many sales/leads you derived from that exact ranking and the long tail searches from the root of the term.
Email marketing can benefit all sizes and types of companies. But, like all types of marketing, certain types of businesses have a real advantage when email marketing as compared to others. Your email marketing strategy still plays the biggest role in how well your email marketing performs, but certain types of companies do have an inherent advantage.
It’s always important to remember that each visitor to your website has value. Whether you are selling products directly via your eCommerce website, or your website is designed to generate leads that you distribute to your sales force, you need to make sure you are maximizing your conversion rates, period! I’ve discussed a/b testing and […]
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