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Product Photos at Your Website
If you sell something tangible, you need to show pictures of your products. Product photos are extremely important for conversion at your website, and they make all the difference for […]
Affiliate Links Done Right
Affiliate marketing can be a good way to monetize a website. It’s not a get rich quick method, but we have seen people earning thousands a month from established websites. […]
Nature or Nurture?
Using Infographics at Your Website
We recently commissioned a new infographic for a client. Paige came up with the concept and gathered the data, Jay put it into graphic form, and we posted it at […]
Forget One Size Fits All Social Media
If you do social media for your business, you will have seen — and perhaps been tempted by — those automated social media plans. People like me keep telling you […]
Social Sharing Buttons: Yes or No?
The current issue of .net Magazine has a roundtable discussion of social sharing buttons — those little icons you can easily push to share a story or blog post with […]
Lessons from WC Kansas City 2012
We had five members of Team Haden at Wordcamp KC this year, and we had a great time. We enjoyed working on a new site for Maison de Naissance at […]
Planning a Vlog
Blogs often contain videos these days, but what about the vlog — a blog that’s all videos? How can you plan for success when you’re planning a vlog?
More on Moving Old Websites
I’ve written before about moving large websites, but I’m currently in the midst of moving the content of a wonderful, huge, old website to its new, even more wonderful WordPress […]
Spoke for Business
Spoke is an information sharing site where you can combine a little original content with curated content of many different kinds to create a page for your business. You can […]
10 Quick Linkbuilding Ideas
Search engines know that they can’t make judgements about quality of websites as well as humans can on some levels. Bing doesn’t know how beautiful your pictures are, Google can’t […]
SEO Tip #29: Video and SEO
Site Maps
A client wrote last night asking, “Is it not possible to tell Google the sitemap directly?… Can you not just tell Google the layout and have it appear appropriately?”
New Social Media Option: Pinterest
Pinterest is the new kid on the block in social media. It’s a site where you can post links to pictures and create “boards” which are your own curated collections […]