website marketing

NetSource Website Design for Pumpkin Masters Wins District ADDY® Award

April 16, 2012

NetSource Technologies’ 2011 website design for Pumpkin Masters has been awarded a Silver ADDY® by the American Advertising Federation’s District 4. The award qualifies the Pumpkin Masters site design to compete as a finalist in this year’s National ADDY® Awards. The ADDYs are the largest creative competition in the country with over 40,000 local entries [...]

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More Tips for Online Video That Sells

February 20, 2012

Now that you’ve had some success with the basics of making a video for your website (you are using my Tips for Online Video That Sells, right?), you’re no doubt impatient to absorb some additional pointers that will make your videos even more useful. You still won’t quite be ready to take your clips to [...]

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Tips for Online Video That Sells

February 2, 2012

The proliferation of small, inexpensive video cameras, coupled with the ease of online video sharing, has made wildly gyrating, poorly composed videography with garbled sound commonplace in the public eye. But just because people have seen a lot of poor video doesn’t mean they like it.  Bad video is often good for a laugh, but [...]

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Your Advertising Dollars Aren’t Spaghetti

January 23, 2012

It’s one of those silly myths of cooking. Throw a pasta noodle at the wall; if it sticks, it’s done. You don’t even have to be addicted to the Food Network or the Cooking Channel to know that just isn’t true. If a noodle sticks, it usually means nothing more than you just threw a [...]

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DOs and DON’Ts of Building Backlinks (to improve SEO)

December 26, 2011

Backlinks are links from related websites to your site, and they continue to be one of the most important elements in search engine rankings.  Search engines consider websites with lots of backlinks to be “authorities” or “popular.”  Unfortunately, getting backlinks from valuable website relevant to your keywords and search terms is one of the most [...]

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YouTube Marketing in 4 Easy Steps

December 19, 2011

So you’ve heard that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the U.S., second only to Google (who owns YouTube and includes YouTube search results in Google SERPs as well), and that 20 million visitors search YouTube every month.  A savvy web marketer would jump on the opportunity to corner search results on YouTube. [...]

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3 Content Types That Drive Traffic, Engagement, and Conversions

December 12, 2011

Search engine experts and online marketers agree that the key to attracting search engines and customers to your website is useful, unique, relevant content that can’t be found elsewhere.  Therefore, content creation is the most important task for all website developers and owners. Unfortunately it is also the most difficult.  It is very tempting to [...]

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Learn the Lingo for Online Display Ads

October 17, 2011

If you’re serious about online marketing, and you’ve already crafted a solid search engine optimization strategy, launched a Pay-Per-Click campaign, and undertaken a link building campaign, your next step just might be a display ad campaign (or banner ads).  However, knowing the lingo and technical jargon can mean the difference between the success and failure [...]

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Testing helps improve site conversions

March 23, 2010

Testing your website pages, especially landing pages and sales pages, is one of the simplest things you can do to tweak your web site and attain higher conversions. In addition, you can learn more about content creation, as well as your customers’ interests, through testing than by any other method.

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Turning website visitors into customers

January 11, 2010

After putting in place a well-developed marketing plan and generating traffic to your landing page or website, the next step is to turn your online prospects into customers. Improving your online conversion rate is a two-part process.

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10 Best Free Online SEO Tools Available Today

December 21, 2009

So you have decided to do your own Search Engine Optimization. Then you have most likely come to the realization that it’s nowhere near as easy as you initially anticipated. You have also found that it is extremely hard, if not impossible, to cover the gamut of SEO without the help of some sort of [...]

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6 Great Reasons to Update Your Website Content

December 15, 2009

A lot of time and effort goes into setting up a website when it is first created, but once the website is launched, the work is not over! Think of your website as a constant work in progress. Every day is a new chance to make a great first (or second, or third) impression. How [...]

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