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Think you know all about Dodgeball? Hint: it’s not a game you played in school. Most likely you’ve heard of Del.icio.us and Digg. You probably know that these social sites are for bookmarking and sharing interesting website content. But there’s been an explosion of social sites that offer just about any service you can imagine, […]
Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Vanessa
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If you build an easily navigable site, chances are you’ve also built an SEO friendly site. But what are the keys to usability?
Here is insider information from one of the sessions at Search Engine Strategies San Jose, an SEO conference held from August 20, 23, 2007. Shari Thurow is Founder of Omni Marketing Interactive, a […]
Posted on August 24th, 2007 by Vanessa
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John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing maintains a popular blog with topics related to small business advancement. On 8/20 he released a 20 minute podcast interview with Eric Groves, Senior VP of Sales and Development of Constant Contact. For the past couple of months we’ve been talking about building your customer base through Constant Contact’s […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by Vanessa
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OK, so you’ve got your PPC campaign all figured out. You’ve budgeted for each click you’re likely to get based on keyword search volume, and you’re comfortable using this targeted advertising approach. Now here’s one more thing to consider. What landing page have you selected for your PPC ads? If the landing page doesn’t […]
Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Vanessa
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25 years ago today a revolution was begun. Some shrugged off the new media as the generation before them had shrugged off The Beatles. (”Rock and Roll won’t last.”)
The first compact disc was pressed in Germany by the Philips factory, a division of Polygram. Overlooking their unfortunate choice for first pressing — ABBA’s The […]
Posted on August 18th, 2007 by Vanessa
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What is Malware
Malware is a serious issue, so much so that Google recently started a blog devoted to malware and other security issues (see June 2007 SiteBeat here for information about the Google Online Security Blog). Sites on unsecure servers are most at risk, and MightyMerchant’s servers are very secure, but safe surfing and downloading […]
Posted on August 15th, 2007 by Vanessa
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In this month’s SiteBeat, the MightyMerchant newsletter, we made the case for Crazy Egg (www.crazyegg.com) being a useful analytical tool, a supplement to Google Analytics. Crazy Egg is a visual stats monitoring tool that lets you see at a glance where people click on your website. But you may be wondering just how you can […]
Posted on August 13th, 2007 by Vanessa
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Here is a link to the Top 300 search engine keywords of the week, as reported yesterday by Search Engine Guide:
I’ve reproduced the first twenty search terms here:
Position Count Keyword
1 […]
Posted on August 9th, 2007 by Vanessa
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