Archive for June, 2009

Successful SEO Isn’t Magic: Search Engine Optimization Merely Requires Hard Work, and Smart Work

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

People in the SEO business who act like magicians — as if they have some kind of secret SEO trick or hidden method — are merely carnival workers, hawking their booths to the midway. Unfortunately, the web is still a place where these folks can run around from town to town, virtually speaking, staying just ahead of the cyber-cops. Of course there ARE legit web marketing companies who do search engine optimization SEO work. You can tell who they are by one essential fact… they make absolutely NO guarantees about results. They tell you what they are doing, everything they are doing and that is their marketing strategy to you. Some of them actually operate web-sites where they openly publish the how-to and tutorial techniques. They have no secrets. Instant SEO Tune-UpOnly $99 So, why would you hire someone who tells you there is no magic trick that guarantees success, [Click Title to read more...]

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The 5 Second Home Page Rule: 3 Things Your Front Page Must Do in Your Visitor’s First Five Seconds On-Site

Monday, June 1st, 2009

An unknown secret about web marketing is this — you only have 5 seconds to accomplish 3 things after a visitor clicks into your home page. Research proves that if customers don’t see what they’re looking for immediately, they simply press the back button and you lose them. If you give what they need in those few seconds, then you can easily keep them onsite for another 30 minutes or even longer. And, during that much longer visit, your chances of making a sale are immeasurably bigger. That means on the very top of your front or home page “above the fold,” you must present these 3 main ideas simply, dramatically, and persuasively — and do it fast! Here they are — the 3 things that must be done for every new visitor, in only 5 seconds Establish what it is you do, what is the nature of your business [Click Title to read more...]

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