If you’ve ever had to sit and wait more than 30 seconds for a website page and its graphics to load, then it’s not their server that’s a problem. More than likely you have encountered a website whose author has used poor graphics optimization. Yes, there IS such a thing as too many graphics. However, even if a site has 4 or 5 images on one page, they should not cause a web user’s browser to lumber along, provided they have been optimized for better loading speed! In this article, I will touch briefly on how to fix this problem by addressing Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve noticed that most SEO articles focus on what to do after you launch your site.

Those that do deal with preparing your site for launch usually discuss on-site SEO like keyword research and meta tags. What tends to be neglected is the advantage that you can gain by getting your site indexed before you launch. With a little planning and Read the rest of this entry »

This amazing tool is used by everyone in our office for optimizing our ecommerce web sites on the internet. It has continued to deliver us top results for Google, Yahoo, and other search engines.

This handy tool will show you the results of any search query for your product or service and return results from both Wordtracker and Overture (Yahoo) to help you determine which phrases and keywords are searched the most.

Talk about target marketing on the internet! Finding your marketing niche too when you can’t compete with the big dogs!

Just use the link below. Enter a search phrase to see how often it’s search for and get suggestions for other keywords for your meta tags and web sites content.

Keyword Search Engine Suggestion Positioning Tool

Matthew Peschong
Minnesota Web Site Design Services

1 . Look At Your Marketing Model

The most important step you can take when building a name brand from the ground up is using consistency. Whether you advertise in a newspaper, on the radio, through an ezine, on your web site, on television, on a business card, or on the side of your office building you must remain consistent.

When you see a ‘golden arch’ you instantly think of McDonalds (unless you’ve been living in a cave all your life). McDonalds integrates its Read the rest of this entry »

Search engine submission is easy but overly complicated and over dramatized by many web masters.

If you are a businessman looking to get a little added exposure to your pre-exsisting web site you do not necessarily need to enlist in the services of an ‘internet guru’ who will claim to get your site listed on 5,000 search engines and directories.

Simply look at the statistical breakdown:

Google at 36.4%
Yahoo! at 30.6%ÂÂ
MSN at 16.5%
AOL at 8.9%
Jeeves at 5.5%

Google, Yahoo, and MSN account for nearly 80% of all searches on the Read the rest of this entry »

You can easily steal the marketing power of your competitors on the internet to gain not only your ranking in many search engines but also gain the width of your wallet.

Here’s the simple trick.

All you have to do is find out which web sites are appearing on Google for keyword search phrases that you want to place higher in.

But I must explain how this works. Google and other search engines will actually rank your web site higher in its’ search results based not only on your META tags and titles but also your external links. That is, the Read the rest of this entry »

How can you gain more customers, more sales, and build a powerful business networking contact system?

It’s simple! I’ve been doing this for years with various web sites.

Build your reciprocal links database until it is about the explode. Don’t rush to your outlook express in one hand and Google in the other hand though. Take a step back and learn.

Reciprocal links will truly add value to your web site, bring targeted traffic to your site, and in essence more sales. But your reputation is on Read the rest of this entry »

Your have or are planning to start an online business. You’re on your way to bigger and brighter things if you know how to properly advertise your business online.

Advertising can be the best and most effective tool of generating brand awareness and traffic to your web site. In addition, it can generate popularity to your products on sale. Television, radio, and print advertising is for offline businesses. Rarely, if ever, should you advertise your business that sells products only Read the rest of this entry »