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In late 2012, we published an article about responsive website design, or RWD, a revolutionary new approach to crafting sites, which delivers an optimal viewing experience for users regardless of the device they're using. Consider this your 2013 update. Unlike regular websites that aren't able to di...
Is your company’s website as effective at generating sales/leads as it could be? Which aspects of the website have the biggest opportunities for improvement? Pay-per-click advertising is an easy and cost-effective way to collect reliable performance information to answer these questions and generall...
1. End your prices in 9—it increases sales dramatically. According to eight studies surveyed by a Harvard Business Review contributor, products ending with a 9 (including the cents digit) outsold similar products ending in a different digit by 24%. Ending your prices with a 9 may increase sales even...
Yesterday, Eddie Shleyner wrote an article about how to increase your Google traffic with easy writing techniques. You can also increase your Google traffic by making your Google results stand out from the pack visually. Remember, you only have one second to convince most readers that your website i...
Entering most anything into Google Search will yield you ten organic results, which are made up of ten separate component, or parts – though when it comes to influencing the click-through patterns of potential business leads, some of these parts are more important than others. In this two-part artic...
Search engines, like the stock market, are constantly changing because their algorithms are directly influenced by the people who use them. And as long as The Times Keep On A-Changin’, so will the Internet search game. For example, Google handles approximately 100 billion searches every month. Those...
Unlike your actual signature, email signatures are meant to be easily legible – providing your contact information while leaving a unique impression on everyone who reads it. Though the ultimate purpose is to reinforce your name, address and telephone number, you could offer so much more. You could...
Mary Meeker, the head of Morgan Stanley’s Global Technology Research Team, took the stage at Akamai’s 2010 State of the Internet report and said that within the next five years “more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.” Well, whad’ya know? 2012 is almost over, an...
The fourth Thursday of every November gives each American a day to reflect; it gives us all an opportunity to be thankful for the people and things in our lives that make a resounding difference: our family, our friends, the good fortunes we received throughout the year… these are all of paramount i...
The ongoing transition of local business listings in Google continues. In August 2012, Google combined Google+ Local with Google+ Business to form one, all encompassing listing for your business on Google. Google has done this to ensure that business data is consistent across their entire network. I...
