The Window is Closing for Tax Free Internet Sales Online
Amazon conceded to charge all California customers sales tax, starting Saturday. Most states only require online mercants to charge sales tax if the shipment is delivered to a customer within the same...
View ArticleIs A Daily Deal Site Like Groupon Right For You?
Very interesting article on the ”Daily Deal” Websites like Groupon from the folks that wrote one of our favorite books – The EMyth. This article make some hard calls on sites like Groupon and the type...
View ArticleGoogle Class City of Austin 09.19.12
Thanks for all the fantastic questions and interaction – Student participation make these work! Feedback is always welcome – Let’s start the two way conversations – please click on “comment” below to...
View ArticleSet Up a WordPress Website on GoDaddy
Hello again class.. Here is a link to a white paper I did on setting up a WordPress website on GoDaddy – Step by Step – Screen shot by screen shot:...
View ArticleVignette on Photoshop – Fading Image Edges Into the background
Often times an image looks best on a website if the background is completely removed from the main object in an image. Sometimes that is not possible, nor desirable with an image with lots of detail...
View ArticleIs Your Website Designer Helping You or Hurting You
A Word on Website Designers & Internet Marketers Professional website designers and internet marketers can be worth their weight in gold. There are many competent web designers around – many are...
View ArticleOur Next SEO and Internet Marketing Book – Cover Design
Austin, TX, Announcing Our New Book – Pre-Press Release: We’re officially announcing our new internet marketing book, with this pre-press release and asking our friends and fans to give us feedback on...
View ArticleNew GoDaddy Email Control Panel
GoDaddy launched a new email control panel a couple of days ago. It sees to be a little more intuitive – we like it. The Email Control Panel is where you add or edit your various emails for your...
View ArticleBest Facebook Image Sizes
Optimizing your image sizes for Facebook will yield the best looking pictures. Below are the current size recommendations for Facebook Cover photo: 851 by 315 Profile picture: 180 by 180 Wall post...
View ArticleWindows 7 Faster with 3 Simple Tips
Screenshot by screenshot, easy as pie, paint by number tips for keeping your Windows 7 computer running fast. Make Windows 7 Faster Anyone can do this. Download the...
View ArticleWindows Search 4 Conflicts with DropBox Indexing
Note to DropBox staff: You might want to let people know that Windows Search 4 conflicts with DropBox Indexing. I recently added Windows Search 4 to my XP system. Immediately I noticed that DropBox...
View ArticleOur Latest Internet Marketing Book Cover…Coming Soon
Let us know what you think of our mock up. We try to keep the technical jargon on the light side. We’re trying to reach small business owners – did we hit the mark? Internet Marketing Book Cover Mock...
View ArticleSearch Box Missing on Graph Search
Facebook is about to launch Graph Search. I requested to be a Beta User. NOT GOOD! It removes the search box at the top (not sure if this is a bug or what) AND it only lets you search by certain...
View ArticleExact Match Domain and Anchor Text – Penguin Update
An Important Excerpt from the upcoming book about OVER-OPTIMIZATION. The Panda and Penguin updates seem to be targeting overly optimized websites. Remember – Everything should be done with moderation...
View ArticleFacebook Business Page Rules
Good article on the do’s and don’ts of your Facebook business page. Be sure to check out the guidelines at Facebook for the latest – but this article summarizes it pretty well:...
View ArticleCity of Austin SBDP Google Class
It was a great class folks. Thanks for all the interaction! Please download the slides to the class here: http://www.get-top-ranking-on-search-engines.com/images/UT-Google-Class-041713.pdf
View ArticleLinkedIn No Longer Supports Event Creation
Wow – I did not realize LinkedIn canceled Events. Too bad, this was great for SEO as Google ranked events in the search results. My guess is that they will re-introduce and then charge to create an...
View ArticleAdobe Photoshop Goes to the Cloud
Users upgrading from CS3 or higher can get a discounted rate for their first year of $29.99 a month http://mashable.com/2013/05/06/adobe-subscription-pricing-only/
View ArticlePenguin 2.0 Hit May 22nd – Matt Cuts Video
In terms of what you should be working on, we try to make sure that’s pretty constant and uniform. We’re trying to make sure that you make a great site that users love, that they’ll want to tell their...
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