Just wanted to give a quick update on what is cooking for Optimal Web. We are on the tail end of complete re-design for our website. We are shooting to launch the new site by the end of the week. We are also restructuring our SEO packages and web design packages and will have some great specials for the spring.
Needless to say this has taken up a great deal of time that I normally devote to Optimal Web Blog. Once the changes go live we will continue with updating the blog on regular schedule once again.
Most of the ways you capture pictures will do so at the highest resolution. This is great and you don’t want to change a thing here. You always want to capture it at the best quality because you can always go down but you can’t go up. You just need to re-size the photo so it does not bog your website down or take forever to send over email.
How do you easly resize photos when everyone has diffrent programs to do the same thing? Then add in the fact that each program has a totally unique way of doing the re-size. You make it simple. The below tutorial will walk you through a great tool that I use to make batch photo resizing.
Chances are you use Facebook all the time for personal use but how do you make it work for your business? In the past business owners would simply create a new profile for their business and in this fashion it functions identically to the normal account. Facebook however has just changed their policy that all [...]
I have been hearing a lot of buzz about Google Wave but until I watched the below video I could not quite wrap my head around it. The basic premise is that email is old (40 years old) and Google asks the question, “What if Email was invented today?”. Google Wave looks amazing and could [...]
Today like most days I walked over to grab the mail and saw a familiar site. Yellow Page books in weather resistant packages parked by the mail boxes. They have been there already for longer than a week. I guess I wonder what will happen first, will they simply decompose or will someone simply get [...]
If anyone has watched the original shift video you are familiar with the concept of these fun videos. After watching there is no doubt that social media is and has already taken over many other traditional marketing streams.
In 1979 a study was conducted about graduates from Harvard’s MBA program. The graduates were asked, “Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?” Only three percent of the graduates had written goals and plans; 13 percent had goals, but they were not in writing; and a whopping [...]
If you don’t know what Bing is then this is a must read for all local business owners. Within the last few weeks a major deal has happened in the search marketing arena. Microsoft and Yahoo have partnered up (though not an official merge) and will combine their search technologies. As of right now Google [...]
Yesterday I talked about the importance of inbound links to your website. How they serve as votes for the search engines on how to rank your site. Below I go through 10 activities you can do to build more inbound links.
1. Make friends- This is no different than any other type of networking. Step out [...]
How does a website get to the top of the search results? What can I do to improve my business likelihood of getting to the top? Why not hear it from search giant Google:
“Google PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an [...]