In the latest Forbes magazine Rich Karlgaard has an excellent article about giving speeches. I’ve given a few talks on e-Commerce or language and love it when I’m well prepared and enthusiastic about the subject matter. It has been a challenge though.
I’ll let you read Mr Karlgaard’s advice yourself but here are a few [...]
e-Commerce, the practice of buying, selling and marketing of goods or services over an electronic medium, has been around a lot longer then simply since the internet. Ever since the invention of computers and computer networking, e-commerce has been around in one form or another.
In the early days, e-commerce was conducted over private networks called [...]
One simple but often overlooked way to improve your site is to add a Favicon. What’s a favicon? It is the tiny square image that appear next to URLs on the address bar and in your Favorites/Bookmarks. This little graphic can make your site stand out against all the other links since [...]
If you’ve done some looking around for ways to make money on the internet, I am sure you have found e-books or online courses that will tell all the secrets. Of course they go for the unbelievable low price of $97 or perhaps $249. The fact is, there are very few true secrets that cannot be [...]
An interview with Network Solutions Senior Vice President Stephanie Leffler on Search Engine Optimization.
Her three main points are very general, but are absolutely crucial for improving your site’s standing in the search engines:
Good Content
Links to your site
Title Tags and Meta Tags
This site is brand new, but my goal for the next two months is to [...]
There is nothing worse than reading something you wrote years ago and finding terrible and obvious mistakes. But it happens to the best of us. One trick to help bring out the mistakes without having to wait years, is to read your writing out loud.
After writing several paragraphs it is easy to go [...]
Yaro Starak over at Entrepreneur’s Journey has a great tip for us today. If you haven’t read his blog, by all means do so. I would also recommend signing up for his newsletter. It is informative without being in-your-face.
Camtasia is the industry standard for capturing video on your PC. This can [...]
The ALT tag in HTML was designed to help the blind read web pages. It works like this:
<IMG src=”my_picture.gif” alt=”This is my Picture”>
Most likely search engines use the ALT tags to get information about what the image is about. This could potentially help your page get better ranking. Even if [...]
Get a Domain for more than a Year
I am sure you’ve heard of phishing—the unscrupulous scam of creating a website that mimics a bank or store site in order to steal customer login information. The spammer / phisher? knows the fraud will be discovered in a short period of time so they only register [...]
When writing content for your website, it is a smart thing to check to see what search terms (keywords) are popular for that particular topic.
A software called Good Keywords allows you to type in a keyword and view how popular it is AND even more importantly how popular similar keywords are.
Guess what? It is [...]
