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What To Look For When Buying a Laptop |
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When most of your work involves computers, people usually assume you are a computer expert and ask you all kinds of questions about their computers and which ones to buy. Since I get asked that all the time, I thought I'd link to an article that tells you want to look for. How to buy a laptop on PCMag.com
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Google Page Rank Sculpting Explained |
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Written by Lance Thompson
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009 10:16 |
There has always been this sort of mystic secret concept about how to get better rankings on Google and other search engines. It's sort of like the old rabbit ears on your TV...if you happened to move them into just the right position, you'd suddenly get great reception. Well, here's the word directly from Google developer Matt Cutts on "Page Rank Sculpting" and how to get the best results from it and some things not to do such as the "NoFollow" tag on your links. Here's a snip (from the comments):
"Search engines want to return great content. If you make such a fantastic site that all the web has heard of you, search engines should normally reflect that fact and return your site. A lot of bad SEO happens because people say "I'll force my way to the top of Google first, and then everyone will find out about my site." Putting rankings before the creation of a great site is in many ways putting the cart before the horse. Often the search rankings follow from the fact that you're getting to be well-known on the web completely outside the sphere of search. Think about sites like Twitter and Facebook--they succeed by chasing a vision of what users would want. In chasing after that ideal of user happiness and satisfaction, they became the sort of high-quality sites that search engines want to return, because we also want to return what searches will find useful and love. By chasing a great user experience above search rankings, many sites turn out to be what search engines would want to return anyway."
You can read the full article here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/
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How Do You Get Higher Rankings on Search Engines? |
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Written by Lance Thompson
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Monday, 20 April 2009 00:00 |
 There's really no way to guarantee top placement on the search engines without buying advertising. Anyone that guarantees that they can get you to the top page without buying ads is probably pulling your leg.
With hundreds of millions of web sites online, it's getting harder and harder to be found so I'd recommend you hire a professional who knows how to make sites that are search engine ready.
There are some things you can do however to get ranked higher.
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Cost Effective Ways To Increase Sales In A Down Economy |
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Written by Lance Thompson
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009 11:21 |
 When money is coming in it's easy to spend money on advertising but when things like the economic downturn happen, we as business owners are forced to look at ways of trimming expenses and many times it's on our marketing budgets. Without sounding too self-serving as a marketing company, it seems like the best time to spend money on marketing is when sales are down and customers become more scarce. When your customer base starts shrinking, you can bet that your competition is looking for ways to get a bigger piece of the smaller pond and will continue to market and advertise to snag more of your customers.
Now, it's also vital that as business owners that we get the most mileage out of the money we spend so I wanted to spend a few minutes and brainstorm ways of marketing in some not so expensive ways.
Here are a few ideas I came up with:
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How Do You Get More Traffic To Your Website? |
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Written by Lance Thompson
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Monday, 27 April 2009 00:00 |
 That's the million dollar question and there's no silver bullet. It takes a lot of time and effort but usually that effort is worth it. There are lots of tricks and theories on how to generate more traffic to your web site but here are some sure-fire methods for increasing traffic.
Here are some tips:
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Passive Income Internet Ideas |
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Written by Lance Thompson
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 11:04 |
 In a recent radio interview I did with Mike Stuart (www.MikeStuart.com), he asked me to come up with some passive income ideas that I've seen on the internet over the years. If you are self-employed, having multiple revenue streams is important to protect you when one area of your business may slow down. So I thought I'd also share them with you here.
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