Archive for September, 2007

NY TIMES ENDS PAID CONTENT MODEL

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

The New York Times online, named "TimesSelect", announced this week that they are ending their online subscription model.   The reason? Many people were finding descriptions and listings of NY Times articles while doing search engine searches, but then they would be stopped at the "payment" door and prevented from entering the site.  The Times, caving in ...

WHY IS MY WEBSITE INVISIBLE?

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

In our earlier discussion "IS YOUR WEBSITE SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY?" we talked about making sure your website had the proper configuration of META tags so that your site could be indexed properly. But one of the most common reasons we find for "invisible" sites are sites that are almost completely created ...

THE POWER OF PROMOTION

Friday, September 7th, 2007

   How I spent my summer vacation?  Well, that's me (right) and my son, Sam, at the foot of the Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska.  A wonderfully peaceful and pristine place. What does this have to do with The Power of Promotion?  Well, an amazing thing happened during the trip that I want ...

IS YOUR WEBSITE SEARCH ENGINE FRIENDLY?

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

In an earlier post we defined what SEO, short for Search Engine Optimization, means.  In this post I'd like to briefly outline how to evaluate your own site for some very basic SEO strategies and techniques. First, let me say that all websites, including yours, have two distinct audiences:  1.  The people, prospects, ...