Are you the owner of a web site or blog?
If so, you probably work hard to keep its quality up and get it noticed amid the Trillions of available web pages. That’s right - on 7/25/2008 Google announced that they were indexing over 1 Trillion web domains (URLs). And most URLs lead to many web pages.
My Favorite Web Resources
I hope to help you out a bit by recommending the online resources which have helped me the most in my online publishing efforts. You may want to check back from time to time as I add items to this list.
Webmastering
Webmaster World
A forum with everything about everything for the webmaster and online marketer.
Cre8asite Forum
One of the few places you can get valuable free critiques of your site – if you also provide some critiques of other people’s sites. That’s a good learning exercise too.
Web Marketing
Marketing Experiments
There are too many “guru-of-the-day” type web sites about how to market online. These guys are an incestuous bunch who sell each others seminars, workshops and “get rich on the web schemes”. Beware these pushy experts and pseudo-experts. Don’t go for the BS like “I made a million (just look at these pics of my mansion, sports car and yacht) – and I’ll show you how to use my guaranteed method to get easily rich”.
Marketing Experiments is very different. They’re a group of scientific researchers (yes, PhD statisticians and the like) doing lots of serious online marketing experiments to find out what really works - and they report their findings for free. Check out their free webinars every 2nd Wednesday – very valuable!
How do they make a living giving away all that info, you ask? With a smart business model. They use their knowledge to create impressive increases in the profitability of big companies with deep pockets. Then they tell us how they did it to market their services. Everyone wins.
Blogging
WordPress of course
The de facto standard in CMS (Content Management Software) AKA blogging software.
Don’t build your blog inside someone else’s web business. Make your own blog on your own hosted web server domain, if you want to market it successfully.
Yoast On tweaking Websites
Joost de Valk is a WordPress and blog marketing expert with lots of good advice. I recommend subscribing to his blog.
Until next time – Hope these were helpful…
_jim coe
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