The articles listed below discuss various tools, resources and techniques that will help you grow your Internet Marketing Business. Click the headline to read the full article.
During 2010 I found a few sites and tools that brought joy to my online-life. Here’s a run down: Without doubt, my favourite discovery was the shopping cart application, Ecwid. This is a hosted shopping cart application which you can integrate with WordPress, Facebook, Blogger, MySpace and 14 other platforms. Plus your hand-built static HTML [...]
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A while ago I wrote about activating Gzip to speed up your page load time. But speeding up your page load time is about a lot more than 1-shot answers – whether it’s activating Gzip, installing a caching plugin or anything else. This graph shows an interesting (and encouraging) trend: It’s from my Google Webmaster [...]
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I did a website for a client recently. It’s a sports bar and he wanted a calendar to display details and times of the different sports events he was going to be screening at the bar each weekend. I always try to use commercially (or freely) available solutions for my clients. First of all it’s [...]
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I needed a shopping cart for WordPress but I couldn’t find anything that was easy to implement, didn’t slow down the site and would be easy to teach a client. My client’s requirements were straightforward: an on-line shop that was an integral part of their site, selling a small range of merchandise (rugby shirts, polo [...]
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For those who build websites by hand (rather than on a platform like WordPress or Joomla) one of the hassles is making sure your sites render consistently in different browsers. Internet Explorer is notorious for screwing things up, mostly because in the past they’ve never adhered to the W3C standards. That said, IE8 is better [...]
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I’ve been lucky enough to pick up a nice new contract, setting up and maintaining websites for a group of 6 restaurant/bars here in Hong Kong. As a result I’ve had a frantic week and I haven’t had time to research and produce my normal second article. So, instead, I’ve spent some time looking back [...]
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With Google now including site load times in the factors it uses to rank sites for the natural search results, a recent article on the SEOmoz blog giving 7 ways to speed things up caught my attention. Some of them I was already using but one that I wasn’t was Gzip compression, so I dived [...]
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When I first started working online I used the fact that I was a newbie to comfort myself when I wasn’t making any money. And then I saw others coming in, who were newer than me, making their first $100, or getting their first 10 sales, while I still had nothing to show. And panic [...]
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