In: OS WebMaster, Online Business

Yahoo Raises the Web Hosting Bar (or do they?)

by Scott Frangos

Yahoo, one of the leading providers of Web hosting services, announced in early February that they are offering the industry’s first “unlimited” hosting plan. Unlimited disk space. Unlimited data transfer. Wow. This is good news for online… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help

7 Ways You Can Profit From Your Blog

by Bob Sommers

A blog is an incredible tool, the kind that only the second generation of Internet technology can offer. Since the technology arrived in the early 2000s that allowed blogging to become a household activity, the opportunities offered by the medium have only continued to expand.

One of the most incredible and underused opportunities present in blogging is the ability to make a profit. Of the 85 million blogs currently… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Content 2.0 – the Evolution of Theater?

At WebHelperMagazine.com, we run article series on Copy Writing Techniques to help you in creating good web content at your blogs and sites, and have a section on Social Media Marketing which contains a number of articles on the details of creating videos for the web. But has anyone given any thought to the history of visual story telling? First came Theater, then Television

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing

Video Marketing - Optimizing a Video for Marketing On YouTube - Part 2

By Virginia Culp

Marketing on youtube.com is a rapidly growing method of online promotion for many web site owners. And as youtube’s popularity continues to increase daily, using youtube as a method of free traffic generation for your site, it’s a sure recipe for success.

“Youtube itself has its own built-in search feature, so for your video to be found by searchers, the correct keywords must be in the title… Continue reading

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Advertising on a budget — Part 2: Thinking small

Advertising on a Budget in the newspaper

by Michelle PW

This is the second article of a three-part series. I’m illustrating the marketing challenges of a small business, PrescottWeddings.com. Here’s where you can find “Part 1: Using print to drive traffic online.

Our goal was to both build the PWC brand and drive traffic to the Web site. Advertising regularly was essential. Yet it was… Continue reading

In: Social Media-Marketing

A Search Engine Optimization Campaign - Quick & Dirty

By Edward Beckett

An effective Search Engine Optimization campaign begins by using keywords to target the subjects which you intend your web site to rank for. In order to rank in the search engine results pages (SERP’s), a web site has to have a position of relevance to the search engine for a given search term. This is usually achieved by having keyword rich content on the site that coincides… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, OS WebMaster, Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

The Case Against Outsourced SEO

By Adam McFarland

About a week ago I got a phone call from a college buddy of mine named Paul who runs a soon-to-launch online business. Here’s how the conversation went:

Paul: “We want to hire your company to do the SEO for us. Whatever the price is, we… Continue reading