ELATED: Website Marketing

Re: Top 10 Free Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 02:54:41 GMT

From: matt

@chrishirst: lol!

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Re: Top 10 Free Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:36:54 GMT

From: chrishirst

"I’m going to watch out for brussels."

Yeah you have to be careful, you know what effect eating cruciferous vegetables can have on the digestive system

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMZ627polnM&t=2m22s

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Re: Top 10 Free Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:27:13 GMT

From: chrishirst

....

What planet are they reading it on?????????????????????

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Re: Top 10 Free Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:26:41 GMT

From: chrishirst

It really does make one wonder if these people are actually reading the same thing as the rest of us are???

And if they are:

....

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Re: Top 10 Free Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:57:04 GMT

From: agenbola

Hi there, just became aware of your blog through Google, and found that it is truly informative. I’m going to watch out for brussels. I will be grateful if you continue this in future. Numerous people will be benefited from your writing. Cheers!

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Using Twitter to Turn a Crisis into a Save

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT

From: Elated

This is a forum topic for discussing the article "Using Twitter to Turn a Crisis into a Save":

http://www.elated.com/articles/using-twitter-to-turn-a-crisis-into-a-save/

In this article, Simon Meek shows how a firm can turn a really grumpy, publicly moaning customer into a happy, more loyal one, using nothing but the power of Twitter.

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Re: SEO for Beginners

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 09:59:10 GMT

From: garygayle

thnx

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Re: Ecommerce - How to Take Payments Online

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:07:29 GMT

From: esparkinfo

Hello,

If you’re a small business, another way to take payments online in a flash is to sign up for FreshBooks. They have a very seamless way to a) invoice clients and b) set up all the steps for online payment (above) in a very simple, very efficient way.

I’d highly recommend FreshBooks for any entrepreneur who is just starting up a small business.

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Re: Ecommerce - How to Take Payments Online

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:55:32 GMT

From: TripO

Even though article is several years old I still found resourceful as helping a guy like me who doesn't understand the ins and outs of setting up a e-commerce store. very well put together.

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Re: Migrating From PHP to Wordpress: How Will It Affect SEOURLs?

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 17:20:57 GMT

From: chrishirst

Bear in mind that the redirects will not happen overnight for Google's index. It can take several weeks before it has all transfered over AND a "permanent" redirection is only "permanent" while the redirect is in place.

[Edited by chrishirst on 21-Jul-12 12:21]

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Re: Migrating From PHP to Wordpress: How Will It Affect SEOURLs?

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:06:59 GMT

From: matt

@pcstokes: I would use .htaccess and mod_rewrite to dynamically redirect all your old article URLs to the new WordPress URLs. Use 301 (permanent) redirects. Google will then transfer all the PageRank etc from the old to the new URLs, and you shouldn't (in theory) lose any rankings.

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Migrating From PHP to Wordpress: How Will It Affect SEOURLs?

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:38:30 GMT

From: pcstokes

Greetings. I'm contemplating converting my site from a PHP platform to Wordpress.

However, I rank well with many search terms on Page 1 Google. I want the ease and benefits of WP but don't want to lose SEO momentum.

I'm wondering if I change to Wordpress, but keep my page URL the same; for example, a current page is http://www.dm92014.com/del-mar-condos.php and if I set it up and name it the same in WP (without the .php) ... will those links still be good? will they be indexed the same as if they didn't change? is this a bad idea? I would keep most of the existing content and add even more.

Any input is appreciated. Thanks, Paul

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Re: Web Marketing Issues

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:49:25 GMT

From: mauco

chrishirst, many thanks for these tips. I'll keep you posted.

[Edited by mauco on 07-Jul-12 14:49]

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Re: Web Marketing Issues

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 19:21:41 GMT

From: chrishirst

You need to "tell" Google that the URLs are for a UK focussed audience. And there are many ways to do that. Some are as simple as making it clear in the copy, or using "boiler plate text" in the documents that give the office address details or delivery scope if it is for products.

You can also set the target market in Google Webmaster Tools, or have the site hosted in the UK or with a .co.uk ccTLD.

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Re: Web Marketing Issues

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:52:53 GMT

From: mauco

Hi chrishirst,

Thanks for your response. The source of the traffic is from search (Google). You've raised some valid points concerning the 'automated' marketing.

Regards,
mauco

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Re: Web Marketing Issues

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:36:11 GMT

From: chrishirst

What are the sources of the traffic?

Search?
Direct links?
Paid advertising?

Or ....?

"marketing automation service providers"
Never used them, never likely to. "Automated" anything more often than not means it will be sending untargeted, time wasting junk traffic your way and it seems like you have enough of that in any case.

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Web Marketing Issues

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:02:45 GMT

From: mauco

Hi everyone,

Please I have a couple of questions:

1) If for instance you have a website based in the UK and it's target market is also based in the UK. Yet the majority of traffic to the website comes from the US, what can you do to remedy the situation?

2) Does anyone here have any experience with marketing automation service providers i.e. Eloqua, Marketo, etc - which would you recommend?

Your comments will be highly appreciated.

[Edited by mauco on 03-Jul-12 08:07]

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Re: Best tool for website marketing

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:32:43 GMT

From: coryDM

A combination of brains and Google perhaps? But of course, you need to do your research. Devote time and effort to do that.

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Re: Top 10 Free Ways to Build Traffic to Your Site

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:15:34 GMT

From: coryDM

Thanks for posting this! This is really helpful and informative. I am using some of the tips you mentioned and am about to try the others (ie. viral marketing , offline promotion). I've been in the SEO industry in just a little over a month and I am constantly trying to look for ways to improve my craft.

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Re: Five simple ways to get free Website traffic

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:12:18 GMT

From: Muhammed

Nice post, thanks a lot for the informative tips, and as John said there are a lot of ways

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Re: Reasons for description not showing up in search

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:37:20 GMT

From: chrishirst

Thanks for the inspiration:

http://webmaster-talk.eu/en/cat-quick-tips/28-qt-pips

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Re: Reasons for description not showing up in search

Fri, 18 May 2012 14:34:31 GMT

From: TruthConquers

Wow, thanks for the epic insight. Thought I was going insane for a while.

Keep well!

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Re: Reasons for description not showing up in search

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:47:18 GMT

From: chrishirst

Oh and URL only titles are called Partially Indexed Pages (PiPs)

It means that Google "knows" the URL exists but have not yet fully indexed the document located at that URL.

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Re: Reasons for description not showing up in search

Wed, 16 May 2012 18:44:23 GMT

From: chrishirst

Google has Several datacentres, each with several server clusters, each cluster has many servers in it and they are not all synchronised with the same data, and depending on which server answers your query the results may (WILL) be different.
http://webmaster-talk.eu/en/component/kunena/computer/1424-computers-google-style

http://webmaster-talk.eu/en/articles/10-website-marketing-and-search/search-engines/4-rankings-and-the-google-dance

Especially for a new site.

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Re: Reasons for description not showing up in search

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:46:29 GMT

From: TruthConquers

Ok but for instance when I type in "shinymanstudio.co.za".

I get this;

Title
url
Description.

For another site, I have used the meta tags and when I type in the site "yourdomain.org" (index page)

I get this;

url.

Now for other pages like "About Us" ect, it shows up the Title and Description.

The site is fairly new, should I wait a month or two and then if the problem persists try something else ? It is just bizarre that it crawls the rest of the pages fine, but the index page comes up as a plain url, which is not very helpful.

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Re: Reasons for description not showing up in search

Mon, 14 May 2012 23:38:30 GMT

From: chrishirst

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35624

Google will change the SERP title an snippet IF their page analysis system determines that other text found in the document provides a better match for the users query.

A site: special search will more often than not return with the title element wording as the result title and the meta description content as a snippet. If you want to see what MIGHT be shown from a users search, use the site: search with the search term appended to it.

eg: site:webmaster-talk.eu linking

Result: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awebmaster-talk.eu+linking

[Edited by chrishirst on 14-May-12 18:40]

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Reasons for description not showing up in search

Mon, 14 May 2012 15:02:47 GMT

From: TruthConquers

If one has put in your Title and Description tags, is there any reason why a search engine would not be able to show this information

A site:yourdomain.com shows the Title and Description, but searching for a specific term brings up a rather plain yourdomain.com.

It is rather perplexing and I cant find a Google Webmaster Tools.

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Re: Please Review Our Site!!!

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:43:13 GMT

From: chrishirst

you are in the wrong forum section for reviews

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Please Review Our Site!!!

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:33:51 GMT

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Re: SEO for Beginners

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:36:34 GMT

From: Muhammed

thanks for the nice tut

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Re: Securing a site and payment options.

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:20:54 GMT

From: matt

Very good points Chris! I'd forgotten about PCI. It's a lot easier just to post your checkout form to the provider's payment page, and it removes your need for PCI compliance too. It also gives the shopper confidence that they're sending their card details to an actual payment provider, rather than some site they may not trust. This is actually what we do on http://store.elated.com/ .

Merry Xmas!
Matt

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Re: Securing a site and payment options.

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:47:42 GMT

From: chrishirst

Bear in mind that if you are taking credit card details ON YOUR PAGES or storing CC details at all, the website AND all your systems will have to be PCI compliant ( http://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/ ).

A SSL certificate does NOT secure your website or your database information. All that SSL does is to encrypt the communication between the client browser and the server during the HTTPS process so that it cannot be intercepted using "sniffers" or wireless "eavesdropping".

You have to ensure data security and maintain the systems so that customers financial details cannot be compromised in any way at all. This includes physical access to data as well. So just for the website you have to be running at the very least, a dedicated server in a datacentre that has already been approved for PCI compliance.

If you use a payment gateway where the customer is taken to a third party page on the gateway providers system you do not need PCI as it is the provider who needs to be compliant.

[Edited by chrishirst on 17-Dec-11 17:48]

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Re: Securing a site and payment options.

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:22:21 GMT

From: matt

@TruthConquers: You're welcome, and thanks! I hope you also have a fantastic new year.

Best wishes,
Matt

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Re: Securing a site and payment options.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:43:48 GMT

From: TruthConquers

Thanks for the insight!

http://www.geotrust.com/ssl/extended-validation-ssl/

They are very cost effective!

Anyway thanks once again, wishing you, the elated team and families all the best for the new year.

[Edited by TruthConquers on 12-Dec-11 07:53]

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Re: Securing a site and payment options.

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:11:04 GMT

From: matt

@TruthConquers: If your secure pages are public-facing then you need an SSL/TLS certificate, otherwise users will get all sorts of browser warnings whenever they try to access your pages. I've used http://www.rapidssl.com/ before and they're pretty good.

If the charity is expecting a fairly low volume of donations then something like PayPal might be a better option - although be careful of this!

http://digitallife.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/07/9280634-why-paypals-bad-reputation-is-bigger-than-regretsy

Basically it's all about transaction volume. If volume is low, it doesn't make sense to spend the time and money setting up your own payment pages. If volume is high then you'll want to set up your own pages to avoid the higher transaction charges of 3rd party providers like PayPal.

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Securing a site and payment options.

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:27:51 GMT

From: TruthConquers

When securing a site are certificates like Verisign the best option to go for ?
Also if one is accepting donations for a charity, and they want to keep costs to a minimal is a 3rd party gateway a better option ?

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I need to embed flash inside Javascript

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:37:15 GMT

From: greenhawk

I want to make this page as intro to the website..so i need to embed my christmas tree in the intro ,
because i tried to convert flash to gif the size was very big 1 mb
but actual flash size is 75 kb

I need to display myflash.swf instead of SimpleImage.gif in the same position

full code is here: http://www.dhteumeuleu.com/mandatory-upgrade/

/* ---- main loop ---- */
run: function () {
/* ---- camera ease ---- */
cx -= Math.round((xm + cx) * .1);
cy += Math.round((ym - cy) * .1);
cz += Math.round((zm - cz) * .1);
/* ---- display loop ---- */
var i = N;
while (i--) O[i].display();
}
}
} ();

/* ==== global onload ==== */
onload = function () {
/* ---- build structure ----
i3D.init(container, path, focalLength, globalZoom, fontSize, onmouseover_border, hyperlink_border
[image, x,y,z, {options}], ...
);
options { 'zx':zoom x, 'xy': zoom y, 'url':hyperlink, 'txt':text
'repeat':[axis(1,2,3), number, increment]
}
*/
i3D.init("screen", "images/", 300, 1, 12, '#666 solid 1px', '#fff dotted 1px', [

['1.png', 600, 90, 500, { 'txt': 'asicity'}],

['26.png', -300, 0, -200, { 'repeat': [3, 3, -400]}],
['26.png', 300, 0, -200, { 'repeat': [3, 3, -400]}]
]);
}

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Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:20:10 GMT

From: chrishirst

Search Engines do not know or care whether the data is in a database or in HTML files.

They simply index the content that is found at a URL

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Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:51:34 GMT

From: matt

@DOC: Provided the CMS content is visible publicly as a page with a URL somewhere, and it is linked to from at least one other page that Google knows about (such as the homepage, a categories/tags page, an archive index, or other index page) then Google should eventually find the page and index it.

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Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:15:47 GMT

From: DOC

Ah, this seems like maybe the place to ask.

I was just curious, I can see how the content from static HTML pages can be returned very well from Google because the content is all right there in the HTML. But what about if you're using a CMS and the content is stored in a database. If someone searches for an article written by you, does Google query your database for that content?

Didn't ask that very well did I? :/

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Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:32:36 GMT

From: chrishirst

No because ALL pages on all sites are "static HTML" when served to a user agent regardless of how they were created.

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Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:45:27 GMT

From: pcstokes

Thanks for the post. Does anyone know if self-hosted Wordpress blogs rank better naturally than html sites? I recently created a wp blog instead of a normal site and it ranked on page 1 in google with very little effort?

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Re: 10 Essential SEO Strategies

Fri, 27 May 2011 09:40:27 GMT

From: sandinfo

Great article! thanks for sharing it. We have just started our recipe website as well as our blog,!

Check it out:
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http://tradelinksint.com

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Re: Commonsense in a mad world!

Fri, 27 May 2011 08:41:58 GMT

From: matt

@pcstokes: It is tricky to filter the spam from the "ham" with some comments. I'm starting to get more hard-line in my old age! If a comment from a new member just says "nice blog!" and contains a link to a fairly low-quality site, that usually results in an instant deletion/ban!

I often toy with the idea of opening up the comments on this site so that non-members can post too, but I feel that the member registration, while slightly inconvenient, does put off a lot of spammers and link droppers.

Cheers,
Matt

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Re: Best tool for website marketing

Fri, 27 May 2011 08:39:06 GMT

From: matt

@pcstokes: No problem - thanks for contributing and being a member!

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Re: Commonsense in a mad world!

Mon, 23 May 2011 19:50:09 GMT

From: pcstokes

Thanks for the video Chris. I agree with most of what she says, but it wasn't totally clear and what she considered spam. I like comments from visitors to my site and blog, but it better be related to my topic.

With so many other marketing avenues, I'm not sure how someone would find the time. Don't we have enough to do already?

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Re: Best tool for website marketing

Mon, 23 May 2011 18:26:30 GMT

From: pcstokes

Google for sure. And yes, thanks Matt, you have been very helpful for specific questions. I really appreciate this forum.

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Re: Commonsense in a mad world!

Thu, 19 May 2011 07:33:51 GMT

From: matt

Too right Chris! "Blog comment marketing" = complete waste of time. Nice to see it spelled out in that post!

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Commonsense in a mad world!

Fri, 13 May 2011 21:51:43 GMT

From: chrishirst

http://www.clicknewz.com/2721/blog-commenting-marketing-strategy/

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Re: Everybody thinking about a business "opportunity" should watch this

Thu, 12 May 2011 10:29:43 GMT

From: matt

Good advice - especially on checking references out properly...

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