Advanced Web Ranking SEO Tool Review There are a lot of SEO tools out there, but very few could scale to the needs of my agency at an affordable price point. We were using IBP and another cloud based solution. With an ever increasing client base, IBP was starting to show it’s limitations. I gave Advanced Web Ranking a try and came away with a tool I can definitely use […Read More]
Month: November 2012
Using Wufoo WebHooks to add leads to Zoho CRM
This is an advanced tutorial and assumes you are comfortable with PHP, Wufoo, and Zoho If you are like me you love Wufoo for creating forms. Wufoo integrates with a lot of services out of the box but sometimes you need to integrate with an application that Wufoo doesn’t have built-in integration for. I recently had to put up a contact form onto a site that needed to integrate with […Read More]
Marketing and The 4-Hour Workweek: A Commentary Without Data, Information, or Useful Tips. A Thanksgiving Treatise
Reader Beware: If you are a Marketing Manager, an Ad Executive, a Social Media Coordinator, a Search Engine Strategist, a Web Developer, a Creative Designer, or another student of the rarely glamorous, often thankless field of goalpost-moving metrics, management, and ideas we call marketing… read on. If not, I would suggest spending your next several minutes watching this short video of a surprised cat. The brave read on… Timothy Ferriss […Read More]
Responsive Web Design: Fluid Images
This is the fourth and final part of the series of posts I’ve been writing over the past few months about responsive web design techniques. So far, we’ve covered the basics of what responsive web design is: the fluid grid and CSS3 media queries. Seemingly, our responsive site is complete. However, there is one key component missing in our site: fluid images. Sure, our site responds to the size of […Read More]
The Winning Edge of the Professional SEO is to Write the Right Proposal
I read the post from Search Engine Journal, written by Ellen Gipko and she makes very interesting comments and points to the way SEO Companies make sales proposals… Personally, my favorite piece is the following excerpt: (…) “IF IT DOESN’T FIT, DON’T FORCE IT In your ambition to sell your services, it’s very easy to focus on what’s good for you instead of what’s good for the customer. That shortsighted […Read More]
What Daniel Day-Lewis’s Method Acting Can Teach Writers
Daniel Day-Lewis is known for his method acting. He goes to extremes — which can sometimes bridge on dangerous — in order to fully experience the role he’s cast to play, including his role as President of the United States in Lincoln, opening today. Here are a few of his other famous method acting techniques: In Gangs of New York (2002, dir. Martin Scorsese), Day-Lewis took butchering lessons from a […Read More]
Glad to See Some Businesses Care for their Reviews
I want to share this excellent thing that KB Homes is doing on their business site that is affecting not only their business growth but also their Google Plus Local Page listing. I am certainly glad to see a business implementing an active strategy to getting more reviews posted to their Google plus profile. I have been advocating this to businesses and business owners for years, and this is exactly […Read More]
Tough Love Can Benefit Your SEO Content Client
The biggest buzzword for Internet marketing these days is content. For writers and editors, this is pretty good news. The need for quality content makes our experienced professional services of premium value to clients. We all know it’s not a perfect world, however. Especially not the world of pre-existing websites that may have been created by someone’s cousin’s nephew’s brother-in-law using content copied and pasted from who knows where. My […Read More]
Advice Local 2013 Top Ten Reviews Gold Winner!
It’s that time of year again when Top Ten Reviews chooses their best of the best. Now if you are not familiar with Top Ten Reviews and who they are, let me bring you up to speed. Top Ten Reviews is a website that posts reviews on web services, games, software, hardware, and music just to name a few. This is the second year in a row that they have […Read More]
Something to Share…
When you are an active business, one thing to keep in mind are the business reviews that customers leave for you. These reviews are great when you are sharing information. For example, you can monitor the reviews that are being left for you at Google, Yahoo, Manta, Insider Pages or City Search (to name a few) with the use of any of the several review monitoring tools. Then, when […Read More]