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re: Most Popular Content of '08: Website Magazine

Jim Smithson - web design company — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:36:22 GMT

I remember reading reading a few of the articles back in 2008 and thought that they were great. The relevance to the industry was obvious, and there were much things to be learned. Much of them still remain useful today, like to to Tweet with your consumers to engage and retain them. If you were to make an updated version with the various changes in the social media scene, I bet a lot of people would appreciate it.

re: LightCMS to Launch E-Commerce Platform

Jim Smithson - web design company — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:34:19 GMT

Any web design firm would appreciate the new features of the new online store that is launched by LightCMS. I find that when a proper online store is managed, customers are able to navigate to their products and make purchases much easily. This brings about a positive effect on sales, and conversation rates would definitely improve.

re: Deal of The Day: i6networks.com

Jim Smithson - web design company — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:04:46 GMT

Wow, you definitely do not see such deals nowadays. I wonder how the web hosting site is doing nowadays. I hope that their initial “giving things for free” marketing technique had a positive effect on their sales. This is like giving away samples for new products, but it does not always guarantee the customers will come back.

re: SEO Meta Data Mechanics: Titles & Descriptions

RachelA — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:19:16 GMT

Another helpful piece from WM. Thanks!

re: SEO Meta Data Mechanics: Titles & Descriptions

Vietnam web designer : Vinalink — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:48:06 GMT

It would better if title from 30-65 and Description below 170

re: Google Update Highlights Freshness

RussellB — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:53:20 GMT

freshness should be a factor. Too many times I see a website ranked high dated with info 4 years ago - just not relevant in most cases these days

re: Google Update Highlights Freshness

Phuket Travel Agency — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:32:40 GMT

Google is the best search engine but facebook is the best of social media. Google+ trying to be the best in social media too.

re: Is Pinterest Doomed to Fail?

DonnaS — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:08:45 GMT

Well, I spent about an hour at the site to see what all the buzz was...coudln't figure it out. On the plus side, I probably wouldn't have learned about the Masonry JQuery script if it weren't for the article...which is VERY cool...so plus points there. As long as you keep putting "something" of interest & that applys to the field, I'll keep reading.

I was amazed to read that they were "well-funded by a group of successful entrepreneurs and investors " ...I'm curious to know how they got funded...I went, I saw...and I really didn't think it was all that. As a developer I can tell you that every joe down the block wants to be the next Zuckerman and has the newer and better social networking site idea. And when they get all haughty and want you to sign a non-disclosure clause/agreement, I just laugh at them. I tell 'em look, I really could care less...I'm not out to steal your idea I ASSURE you. But they really think they've got it! LOL ...it's just not going to happen folks. If, for no other reason than people just don't want to join a new one, and go through the whole profile/self establishment thing all over again. If they're already set up on Facebook, facebook is where they'll stay for quite some time until facebook does something REALLY outrageous that makes them angry enough to leave. And that would have to be something pretty bad. Anyway...why does the world always want to copy the last money-maker...come up with a NEW idea for crying out loud!!

re: The Dirty Secret of Pinterest - Link Swapping

Dive Knives — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:35:39 GMT

FTC rules aside, if this is true Pinterest needs to be up front about it and publicly disclose it, otherwise they'll lose the trust of their community and drift off into internet obscurity. The community will ask, if they're doing this, what else are they doing that I haven't heard about.

re: Google Update Highlights Freshness

Dive Knives — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:19:44 GMT

Google has clearly committed to integrating social in the form of Google + into their search results, but their results relevancy is suffering due to their limited Google + data set. If they don't improve, they risk losing their search traffic to a upstart that provides a clean, relevant, unbiased search experience.

re: SEO Meta Data Mechanics: Titles & Descriptions

JamieG — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:52:23 GMT

Thanks Peter! I will pass this info along to our SEO company who is currently working on our meta data, let's hope this is already in their best practices...

re: The Human Touch of SEO

KevinY — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:29:16 GMT

Usually the number 1 rule in having a good blog is not how well it is SEO optimized, but truly how fresh and good the content is. Original content that is the most up to date with information tend to get naturally high traffic and back links. This goes the same for press releases and articles on bookmarking sites. Being original first and optimizing later is a good mantra to follow.

re: Outsourcing Search Engine Optimization

KevinY — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:21:15 GMT

Knowing when to outsource SEO to a third party is only half the battle won. Getting the right company to help with SEO is another big headache that many people struggle with. Most people leave many of the off page SEO to a third party because those can be very time consuming. Back linking, blog commenting can be outsourced if the third party is able to provide good links to high PR and related websites.

re: SEO: On-page vs. Off-page

KevinY — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:34:19 GMT

I think it is very important to balance both on page and off page SEO. For a small or even one man theme, it should be better to concentrate more on the on page SEO, and if time permits, he can go on to do off page SEO. Getting the right keywords on the page is one of the most essential techniques that should be practiced religiously.

re: Need Coffee? There’s an App for That

Atlanta Real Estate — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:34:01 GMT

That's awesome, we need that here in Atlanta.