Archive for the 'Web Marketing' Category

Web Site Monitoring

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Has your site gone down without knowing it. Or worse, as it looked like everything was OK, only to find out that your registration process has been on the fritz nice 1am and your sign-ups are zero?

Try a little site monitoring. Alert Site is one such vendor. There are more, but this one was good and affordable.

5 options for Analytics

Friday, April 20th, 2007

5 options for web analytics and guidelines based on company size / web goals.

HBX for medium sized companies.
Google for free.
WebTrends for medium sized companies.
ClickTracks for small to medium sized companies.
Omniture for medium to large sized companies.

And what WikiPedia has to say about web analytics.

Get a local Listing on Google Maps

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Get found locally…
http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7039

Taguchi methods

Monday, April 9th, 2007

I forget where I first head about Taguchi methods. Wikipedia does a good job at explaining it. Or least it did today :)

From Wikipedia
Taguchi methods are statistical methods developed by Genichi Taguchi to improve the quality of manufactured goods and, more recently, to biotechnology, marketing and advertising. Taguchi methods are considered controversial among some traditional Western statisticians but others accept many of his concepts as being useful additions to the body of knowledge.

More on Taguchi methods…

Taguchi could be bad for marketing …

Keywords via the Engines/Directories

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/

https://adcenter.microsoft.com/Default.aspx (Pay the five bucks)

Snip your URL

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

http://snipurl.com/

You can make a URL that looks like this:
http://www.nickfromneptune.com/10-tips-to-help-improve-your-natural-search-engine-ranking/

Look and function like this:
http://snipurl.com/195v8 - 27% of the orginal string. A nice feature if you are printing a URL.

Submit to Yahoo! Directory

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Submit to Yahoo! Directory.

One way to improve your natural rankings is by getting listed in directories. Here’s the start of the process for the Yahoo! Directory submission.

User Interface Engineering

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Another nice usability site. This one by Jared M. Spool - http://www.uie.com/.

Google Supplemental Results

Friday, January 5th, 2007

AKA, pages that will most likely never be found using natural searches.

Here are a few tips from Jim Boykin’s Blog:

1. If you stole content - change it.
2. If there’s no content - add some.
3. If it’s orphaned - link to it.

And from Search Engine Round Table:

1) Place a new, nearly blank page on old/supplemental URL.

And about 10 more tips…

Keyword tools - Find the best keywords for your site

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Is your site coming up for the right keywords? Do you know what the right keywords are? Do you know how to begin to find the right keywords for your site? Here are a few tools…

www.keycompete.com
www.keywordsanalyzer.com
www.adpile.net
www.wordtracker.com
inventory.overture.com/