In: Blogging Help, Online Business, Social Media-Marketing

Engage Or Die - The Rise Of User-Generated Content

By Simon Dance

Why do people spend so much time creating and uploading content for the internet? In the view of MySpace guru Richard Rosenblatt, the answer is age-old: ‘People like to express themselves, and they want to be famous. Those are two things we saw from the very beginning of MySpace. Five years ago MySpace didn’t even exist; in 2008 it’s going to do $800 million in revenue, and… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Online Business

Search Engine Optimisation - Myths, Risks and Pitfalls

Search Engine Optimisation - Myths, Risks and Pitfalls

By Nicholas C Smith

From my experience, people who try to increase the flow of organic traffic to their websites domain will at some point attempt a whole bunch of “optimisation techniques” without knowing if any of it really has had, or is having, any effect at all. Some of the SEO techniques I have seen… Continue reading

In: OS WebMaster, Online Business, Web Help

Top 10 Content Management Systems (CMS)

Online Business Articles

by Scott Frangos

When you’re building a new website, or revising an old one, a good CMS is an excellent site structure solution to help make editing and posting easy (no programming knowledge needed), optimize for search engines, and get the word out via RSS. You should compare and test-drive the demos offered at the sites below. Flexibility, support, and a robust development community are… Continue reading

In: Online Business, Web Help

Web Hosts Becoming Website Package Providers

We’re kicking off a new category of focus and taking a look at Online Business and web hosting. If you’re online, you’re doing some form of business (unless it’s just for a hobby), so we’ll take a look at some successful business models

In: Social Media-Marketing, Web Help

Seven Questions to Ask Before You Advertise

Advertising your Site

by Michelle PW

Most business owners and managers keep a fairly close eye on their marketing budgets.

And nothing throws a budget out of whack faster than advertising.

“Running small, inexpensive ads can be a good way to test certain marketing aspects before launching big, expensive, time-consuming campaigns.”

Advertising, or paying good money to get your message in front of your target market… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Social Media-Marketing

Social Media and Full Court Marketing

By Scott Lindsay

TalentDatabase.com Site Home Page
Above, the homepage for TalentDatabase.com is well thought out, and well designed. Each section (I looked at Comedy and Magic) has a well designed section graphic, and is populated already by a number of listings. [Ed.]

It would seem that the marketing potential of social media sites is a fairly open book. I came across a social networking site called… Continue reading

In: Blogging Help, Copy Writing, Copywriting Matters

Top 10 Blog Writing Tips

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This is one article in a series on how to write better. Blogging. Website copy. eCommerce sales copy. Journalism. Even the pro’s keep themselves up to speed with the latest techniques for writing blogs and web copy. The art of writing is perhaps even more important today with all the new ways to publish