Archive for January, 2010
Google Phasing Out Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Microsoft is notorious, for among other things, its missteps with its browser Internet Explorer. “Upgrades” they make to it end up causing headaches for Web developers whose websites don’t show in the new browser the way they did in the old. This has always felt like Microsoft telling the World Wide Web that they better [...]
Friday, January 29CoffeeReview Blogs and Forums
CoffeeReview.com is a specialty coffee site targeted at coffee drinkers, food service professionals and the coffee industry. While we didn’t build their whole site we did build the multi-author blog and forums using WordPress.
Friday, January 29Optimize for Statewide “Local” Results?
Google is now show results in about half of US states for local listings if a searcher pairs the state name with a local service or product. Based on this information, should you optimize your local listing for your state?
Monday, January 25Google’s Local Business Center Needs Consolidation Feature
Local businesses have gotten a huge boost out of the local search engines and the biggest boost comes from Google Maps. Unfortunately Google has made a mess of their effort in numerous ways.
Tuesday, January 19Adwords Vouchers from Dew Point Productions
Google just sent us 20 $100 Adwords vouchers for new accounts. The only catch is that they must be used on new Adwords accounts and used by March 30th. If you’ve been thinking about trying out pay per click marketing through Adwords contact us today. We’ll help you set up an account and provide you [...]
Monday, January 18Dan Brown Gets US Googling
Here’s a just for fun post that also shines a light on what we can learn from Google Insights. In Dan Brown’s latest book The Lost Symbol Robert Langdon tells Director Inoue Sato to Google George Washington Zeus. It turns out that Sato is not the only one who googled the term check out this [...]
Sunday, January 17Entrepreneur.com Chides Small Business Without Web Sites
Carol Tice, writing in Entrepreneur’s Daily Dose this week takes to task the nearly 50% of small businesses who don’t have web sites. She says,
Friday, January 15Moving Dew Point Productions Blog
Our blog has been quite successful, however, we’ve strayed a bit from our mission. Our intention has always been to serve small business, but with our blog we’ve ended up serving web developers. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with this, but we think it would be more fun and more productive to write a blog for [...]
Thursday, January 14Convert Incomplete e-Commerce Transactions
What do you do when a visitor to your e-commerce store begins a purchase but abandons it before paying? If you’re making no attempt to contact those individuals you’re losing a tremendous opportunity to make convert near customers into customers and you’re loosing sales. Try something like this.
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