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Archive for June, 2008

How Can PPC Work?

I’m wondering how pay per click advertising can work. Pay per click right – so you pay for your company to be listed in the ‘sponsored links’ section or something similar of a search engine result which was run around the keywords that you have chosen. So you have paid to be listed on these [...]

Forums or Blogging?

Discussion forums seem a little old fashioned now don’t they, or maybe that’s just me. It could be just me because discussion forums remind me of being at Uni where we were expected to log in, discuss and get credits for our courses by conversing online with our fellow students. With Uni firmly cemented in [...]

DoYou Really Understand

While I don’t mean to insult your intelligence, I am interested in how you would answer this one question, but don’t worry there is no right or wrong answer it will be revealing – honestly, how much do you really understand about your business’ website? Honestly, do you know the names for the programming codes, [...]

Contact Form Typists

Does your company use contact forms on their website? You know the ones – where people fill out their details if they have a question, want more information or want to join your mailing list. You see them on all types of websites from a pet store to wineries, from government departments to, well, website [...]

Click Fraud

Click fraud is a big problem faced by businesses using pay per click advertising to generate traffic for their website. And the worst part is that it is almost impossible to stop. Usually click fraud is perpetrated by your competitors who will click on your ads to run through your pay per click budget, as [...]

Banner Ads

So what do you think of using banner ads on your business’ website? Do you find them effective – and when I say effective I mean not only do they direct business your way but do they also do so at a profit? I suppose ‘are they worth it?’ is what I want to know. [...]

All or Everything

So here is a website leasing company which does everything for you to get your new site off the ground and into the top search engine rankings. With everyone busier and busier and everyone expecting us to do more and more in the same amount of time, surely a one stop shop for website creation [...]

Online Impersonal

Heaps of websites have online support now don’t they? They have an FAQ page where you can see if other people have the same problem you’re having and whether there’s a quick way to fix it. Then if there’s not you fill out a form or send an email and a support technician will get [...]

Judge Locality

Do you judge a website by where it is based, or where it appears to be based? Some internet studies have shown that many users will seek out sites which have a domain name ending in their local country and I know I’ve done the same thing. Surely you have too? You start up an [...]

Does Everything Need a Website

Have you ever searched for something on the internet and thought ‘does everything need a website?’ It seems like literally everything and everyone you can think of has their own website and this does not always mean it is useful either, just that it is there. Doesn’t having a site for everything just clog up [...]