What Did Google Mean?
Sparks of Controversy. There was a substantial amount of controversy in the WebProWorld forums regarding what Marissa Mayer, the Director of Consumer Web Products at Google, told me at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago last week. She said, “If you dropped in rankings, go back and look at who you linked to and who’s linking to you. If any of these people are using spam techniques, they’re the reason your site no longer appears on Google.”
Creative, Inexpensive, and BIG Value Marketing Gift Ideas
“Tis the season to be jolly!” A great attitude is easy to have when you design your gifts with a lot of thought and don’t allow the experience take you to the cleaners.
Marketing Research Using The Internet
My Internet market research methodology takes about five minutes per topic. The goal is simply to determine if the topic has suffient demand/profitability characteristics on the Internet. I like to turn things into numbers so that apples can be compared to oranges.
Caught in the Net – A Sip of Networking
If you think a web is that weelittle fly-catching thing in the corner of your room, you’ve probably been living in the Himalayas. Today, each and every little Tyke (and his dog), are on the World Wide web. And if you are reading this, then more certainly than your dog’s name (Bruno?), you are conversant with the powers of this blown-up scaffold of computer networks.
Graphical Buttons vs. Text Links vs. Image Maps
One of the biggest mistakes made by web designers perhaps because they are new or due to an honest oversight is to use graphical buttons and image maps without using textual hyperlinks.
Get Information First Before Sending Them to the Affiliate
Honestly, I’m not a big affiliate fan because in the past I haven’t gotten 90% of the money promised either because they disappear before they pay out or they have so many exceptions — paying out once a quarter, has to be over X dollars first, etc. Another negative side is that some of them think that 10% commission or some low amount is worth the 20 hours it takes for us to sell it. Usually the 10% equal $10 and $10 isn’t worth my reputation even $1000 actually.
Re-Use The Links You Have When Revising Your Site!
Many times I’ve seen a web site undergo a revision and everything is brand new, even brand new links!
Web Template Designs: FAT vs. PHAT
Have you found a web template that is just exactly what you wanted and you just know that if you buy it and use it on your site, that your web site visitors will be in complete awe of your phat website and will come back regularly just because they like how it looks?
Ten Tips to Keep Motivated Employees and Wow Your Customers
In many companies, work has become a place of disillusionment. Employees start with enthusiasm and creativity, but day after day they feel more and more helpless, as if they don’t have any real choices anymore. Employees are overwhelmed, exhausted and bored. They feel like they have been shot down. Complaining and ridiculing others becomes the norm. The “romance” is gone. If this scenario sounds like your company, don’t despair. Deep down, employees are begging to gain a sense of hope and enthusiasm again, but they need your help. If you make a genuine effort to follow these ten tips, you will not only notice attitude shifts, but real changes in behavior among your employees. Give it a shot, and watch the work environment improve and where employees want to come to work!
How to Interact with SQL Server’s Data and Procedure Cache
As you have worked with SQL Server, you probably have run across the terms data cache and procedure cache, and may have wondered what exactly a cache was. SQL Server is configured to use a physical pool of memory on the server, and it will allocate the majority of this memory pool to hold data pages that have been read, along with the compiled execution plans for all previously-run Transact-SQL statements. It is this dynamic pool of memory that is being referred to by the data cache and procedure cache. Before SQL Server 7.0, the data cache and procedure cache were two separate pools of memory and could be controlled separately. In SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000, one pool of memory is used both for data and execution plans.