Essential Steps to Web Traffic to Your Business

This is the fifth of a six part series on how to get your small business website off the ground.
Yesterday I discussed the most important aspect there is in terms of online promotion of your business website - communication. I also mentioned the importance of content on your business site and that a blog is [...]


How To Draw in Visitors and Make Them Like You

This is the fourth of a six part series on how to get your small business website off the ground.
At this point, I am going to assume that you have a business website that is online already. I am hoping that you have considered the topics I have talked about in the prior posts of [...]


Sales Funnel - Business Website And Your Strategy

This is the second of a six part series on how to get your small business website off the ground.
Yesterday we ended off by saying that your business website needs to have a purpose. That purpose is usually going to be one of the following:

Generate leads
Directly sell a product (e-commerce)

Once you have decided what you [...]


10,000 Page Views From StumbleUpon in One Day

I recently made a post about how to use StumbleUpon to promote. At the time, I was writing based on my own research and a few tests on WebbyOnline itself. However, yesterday I actually went in on my largest website, PCMech.com, and stumbled an article entitled How to Secure Wireless Networks. Well, this morning, I [...]


How to Use StumbleUpon to Promote

A few months ago, I signed up for StumbleUpon. I downloaded and installed the toolbar on Firefox and started surfing. Pretty cool. However, I had seen a few people talking about using StumbleUpon for promotional purposes on their websites, with apparent success. Some were talking about driving thousands of visitors PER DAY to their sites [...]


The Importance of Surveys, SurveyMonkey

I recently signed up for an account at SurveyMonkey after re-realizing the importance of surveys. Here’s the story…
My largest site, PC Mechanic, has actually been seeing a slight, but steady decrease in overall traffic. Nobody in this business likes to see decreases in traffic. Sure, all sites vary up and down on daily traffic, [...]


Cross-Linking Multiple Sites - Bad For SEO?

After my little brush-up with Youtube yesterday, we decided to post our new video on Revver instead. BTW, I also got definitive confirmation from Youtube that this is indeed the case. They said:
We’re no longer offering the option to upload videos longer than 10 minutes, regardless of your account type. If you see a [...]


StumbleUpon - Good For Promo?

In looking at my referrers in Google Analytics, I often see StumbleUpon.com as one of the referrers. I checked it out some time ago and thought the idea was very cool. It really is the ultimate social networking site. OK, well, maybe not “ultimate”, however cool nonetheless. It essentially uses the StumbleUpon community to scour [...]


Leveraging Your Site

I saw a blog post by Andrew over at Web Publishing Blog which talks about leveraging what you have. I find it amazing how Andrew ends up echoing what I’m doing in my own business over on his blog. This week, leveraging what I have has been big on my mind. And, the end result [...]


Going Native is Good

No, I’m not talking about the benefits of walking around in your birthday suit. I’m referring to a new article published over at Marketing Experiments that does an analysis of ad performance on the web. Not quite as exciting? Sorry.
The analysis does some measurement of online ads and sees which converts better. In short, the [...]