We often deal with clients that are planning to “revamp” their sites with Flash, with SEO having already generated tremendous gains in their sales. The thing that we most dread to hear is that they’ve hired an experienced “Flash designer” that will be taking their Web sites to the “next level.” Unfortunately, that “next level” [...]

If you’re going to bother setting up a business Web site, then you’ve got to capture email addresses and send out a newsletter. This is because lots of folks are in a hurry on the web. You know how YOU surf, right? Well, your visitors are doing the same mindless butterfly-flit from one site to [...]

So, you are the marketing manager of your firm, and you’ve finally decided to pull the trigger and hire the search engine optimization company that you’ve been talking to for months. The budget has been cleared, the SEO firm is ready to start, and it should be just a matter of time before you [...]

Uncover the brutally effective SEO software that “average Joes and Janes” are using to quickly and easily blow up their bank accounts, explode their traffic, and triple their sales — with little or no extra work… Version 4.0 just released! A measly one time only investment ends all your traffic woes, fattens your list, boosts your sales, [...]

Until recently, there were five major players in the search engine world: Google, MSN, AOL, Ask.com, and the Yahoo! search engine. These top Internet search engines quickly could be narrowed down to four, however; AOL uses the Google algorithm and will yield nearly identical results. Further narrowing is rapidly occurring – Ask.com seems to be stepping out [...]

Programming Groovy will help you learn the necessary fundamentals of programming in Groovy. You’ll see how to use Groovy to do advanced programming techniques including metaprogramming, Bbilders, unit testing with mock objects, processing XML, working with databases, and creating your own domain-specific languages (DSLs). Groovy brings you the best of both worlds: a flexible, highly productive, [...]

There you are, project manager of a brand new project, you have done your project planning and have started implementation. Now you are thinking about what you can tell your PMI colleagues at the next chapter meeting, creating a wondrous spreadsheet to avoid project failure and revolutionize project control, and learning how to use a [...]

It’s a common question that companies who are considering hiring a search engine optimization company often face — is this something that we can do in-house? More importantly, can we do this in-house and get the same results that an expert search engine optimization company would provide? As this article will demonstrate, clearly the answer [...]

I recently started serving as an evangelist for Daylife, and if you haven’t heard of them before, Daylife presents a news site and a distribution platform that pulls together news and imagery from thousands of sources and organizes and displays it all for you in a way that easily enables you to follow specific topics [...]

Here’s a short note that might be of benefit to those of you who have your own Web site or even just like to blog regularly. I’ve been working with NetLine’s RevResponse partner program and have been pleased with the content it provides for my audience and with the revenue I’m able to generate. I think [...]

As any good search engine optimization company knows, in search, more so than any other medium, you have a very short window of opportunity in which to engage your prospect. The only way to get a solid competitive advantage in this arena is to utilize various techniques in order to make sure that you [...]

Stop wasting time doing Internet searches only to find inaccurate, out-of-date, or incomplete information. CSS: The Ultimate Reference includes all the ins-and-outs you need to know including compatability information for all major browsers, lists of useful hacks, known bugs in CSS, and much more — all presented in a beautiful, full color layout that will [...]

Website Magazine is a free magazine offering practical advice and helpful tools from industry experts to help any Web site achieve Internet success. Until now, there has not been a magazine that caters exclusively to the business of running a Web site. Website Magazine has tapped premier talent in the Internet industry for our content and [...]

Someone asked how to improve search engine rankings for a Web site. Apparently, someone she knows started a Web site and talked about it with her. She and Paul (SO) looked at me asking how did I get my site to rank well. Honestly, I don’t think about search engines when I work on my [...]

Gnomie William Bokunicw writes: Hey Chris, it’s me again. I’ve been thinking about buying my own domain similarly to you (with my last name being the domain name and my primary Web site being first_name.last_name.com) and doing technology based Weblogs. However, I don’t really know PHP, ASP, and the like and am really only proficient in [...]

If the buzz is to be believed, Sam’s Club is now a search engine optimization company that is targeting the local search market aggressively. The fact is, this isn’t something new; it’s just recently come to the forefront. Sam’s Club has partnered with a company called Innuity to offer a program that is primarily targeted [...]

Internet Retailer is the first magazine devoted to reporting on the Internet revolution in retailing and, today, remains the only magazine on the market with this exclusive focus. Subscribers rely on the magazine’s practical and comprehensive information on the Internet’s many applications in retailing, including Web merchandising, multi-channel integration, marketing, and supply chain management. Get your [...]

Nearly all search engines utilize spiders (which are also known by their original name, robots) to go out and scour the Web looking for Web pages. These search engine spiders then bring the data back to be indexed by the engine. Since roughly 1996, individual meta commands have existed that can be used on individual [...]

In response to the proliferation of other frameworks used to create rich Internet applications such as Flex from Adobe (formerly from Macromedia) and AJAX-based frameworks, Microsoft Silverlight was recently introduced. All three of these applications, as well as the others on the market, enable a Web developer to create an interface on a Web page [...]

Adobe CS3 (Creative Suite 3) is a suite of products that combines traditional Adobe programs with programs that Adobe acquired and has since rebranded from Macromedia. The suite includes Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks, as well as Illustrator and Photoshop. All of the programs in Adobe CS3 that were formerly Macromedia have been streamlined and given [...]