A few hours ago one of my zencart e-commerce websites was hacked and a new re-directing virus code was added to the website. After a bit of research I found out that this little redirecting malicious code has been causing problems on numerous other websites around the internet, mainly e-commerce websites.
So I thought I would do a post to help out other webmasters that might be dealing with this little piece of annoying code. » Read the rest of the entry..
I am a business consultant for e-commerce websites for over 7 years now. I can tell you with certainty that obtaining traffic to your website is easy to do, the hard part is converting that traffic into customers and clients. I would like to share some unique tips that can improve your website's conversion rate.
This first tip is often overlooked and goes unnoticed. The tip is quite simple. If you do not offer any discount codes or coupon codes or vouchers do not display the box for possible customers to input these codes in your cart or checkout area.
I have seen time and time again, customers, leaving the checkout area to go surf the Internet for coupon codes. Some of the more aggressive shoppers have even contacted the website owner for coupon codes, going as far as to cancel their order and wait until there are coupon codes available before purchasing. » Read the rest of the entry..
Don't buy large backlink packages, it is best to do backlink building in a steady manner. If a search engine sees 5000 or more new backlinks coming to a website, they will know these are unnatural backlink growth and will not give you a boost in ranking. Slow and steady link building and growth is considered by search engines to be the normal / natural way a website should grow on the internet. I recommend doing at least 100 solid backlinks but no more than 500 backlinks per month.
If you are hiring someone to do backlinks for you, ALWAYS ask them to show examples of the backlinks and make sure they are not submitting to directories. Directory backlinks are all but worthless. It sounds nice to have 200+ new backlinks coming to your website, but if these are directory backlinks they are worthless – 100 backlinks from directories is equal to about 1 good link from a relevant website that is linking back to your website. So avoid directories for backlink building.
If you still feel like you want to get your website into as many directories as you can, just make an account with submitterbot.com and do the directory submissions yourself. It's easy to do and you just need to sit at your computer and select categories and submit. » Read the rest of the entry..
It is well known in the seo world that if you change your meta tags two things can happen. Number 1, It can takes weeks for Google and other search engines to update your new titles and descriptions and during that time. Number 2, it is possible to lose all ranking until search engines update their website information (Note: this only occurs if search engines think the website is a new website with different content).
Through a lot of years of doing Search engine optimization I have learned the fastest way to get Google to update your websites information with the shortest possible wait time. The trick is very easy to do, you just resubmit your sitemaps(or submit your sitemap for the first time.. for people who have not made a sitemap) in Google webmaster and Bing Webmaster.
If you do not already have a webmaster account, then go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/ and create an account. Once you create an account and login and then go through the website verification processes, you will see a list of websites you have added to the webmaster website. » Read the rest of the entry..
Thought I would share this email communication I had with one of my clients.
It is an indicator of how confusing it is for people to understand exactly what social networking is, how it can perform for them and what it can do for them, in conjunction with other web marketing tools available today and the escalating curve of what can be done in the future.
But is social networking or link building viable and is it necessary for every website after traffic and ultimately customers?
Client:
“We still haven’t received the check we need to pay for link building and I’m still not convinced it’s doing much good. The numbers / graphs I run don’t show its effectiveness and last year the backlink building ranking position was guaranteed but this year they don’t. I’ve been interviewing social marketers to see if there is a better way to spend our money. We’ll see”
My Response:
I was hoping to get some time to go over this with you and explain how things work with social networking. I am going to save you a lot of brain damage and money which is a result of talking and working with social marketers.
I have interviewed over a hundred or more social networking “gurus” and builders in the last 6 months, trying to find one that actually had an idea of what social networking is and one that didn't charge huge fees for little return. » Read the rest of the entry..
Just a brief run down on how attributes work in Zencart.
Note: I am going to be using a website that has multiple option name and values for the following examples. The website is Tastycravings.net which sales Gourmet Chocolates.
If you have low end, cheap hosting package, then the simple answer is, go with right sidebars.
If you have a high end host then it doesn’t matter, but I still recommend going with a right sidebar. Scroll down to see why I recommend using right sidebars for a blog, without the technical reasons.
Technical reason for using right sidebars, instead of left sidebars.
When browsers are loading up a website they process coding from top to bottom.
On a typical website, the first area loaded is the Header or the top area. Then afterwards it loads the body of the website, then the footer.
The body area is typically programmed as a large box, with several small boxes inside of it which are programmed using Tables or CSS.
Typical body coding forces a browser to load up the left sidebar box, then the content box, and then the right sidebar box. After the rightbar is loaded, then the footer area is loaded and displayed. » Read the rest of the entry..
Wp-Widget-Cache is designed to work with WP Super Cache or Hyper Cache. It increases the efficiency of the caching mods, while lowering database queries.
Wp-Widget-Cache – Does what the name says it does. It will cache your widgets. Super cache and hyper cache, waste a lot of time caching widgets for every single static page they create. This mod will cache the entire widget area of your website while reducing SQL queries and give you total control over the cache time of your widgets. The author of the mod does a good job of explaining the need for this mod. » Read the rest of the entry..
Looking around the blog-o-sphere and found two great blog article with links to free stock photos and free vector images. Great resources for marketing material, website design, etc.
25 Places to Find Stock Photos — Free and Cheap!
10 Website For Free Vector Images
Three websites not on these links that I use for design projects…
Zentextures.com – Free Large textures for whatever you are looking for. Stone, metal wood, paint, rust, plants, and more.
Istockphoto.com – I miss the days when images were a dollar on this website. But still a good place to find high quality stock photos.
bazaardesigns.com – Free Icon Sets, Vector images, stock photos, fonts, logos, website templates; the list goes on, but check it out, nice website big selection.
I have had this very annoying problem happening with Firefox for the last couple weeks. Whenever I did a search using Google, I would have some links that would redirect me to clickcheck.ru and then I would be redirected to an Advertising website.
Permanent Fix for Clickcheck.ru – Thanks to EefJe
You can click on the link below to go to GeeksToGo Forum that has the Fix posted. Just remember to flush out your DNS entries after you have fixed the problem. » Read the rest of the entry..
Bad Behavior has blocked 802 access attempts in the last 7 days.
