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Where do you start your SEO

karen@karenwheller.co.za — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:00:00 +0100

I get this question often. So, I though I take a minute to write about this in short. You start your SEO by analyzing your website and the competitors website on the search engines.

Without starting at this point, you will never know where you are, where you are going, when you got there and what you are measuring in terms of success and results.

We give our clients some 7 pieces of software to analyze and monitor SEO efforts. This helps our customers see where the [...]

Twitter puts CRM on Cloud 9

sasha@thewebdesigncompany.co.za — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:00:00 +0100

I was recently hopping all over the net when I encountered yet another great addition to Twitter. This time it comes in the form of a CRM system. The design is an enhancement of Salesforce.com's Service Cloud application, which allows the monitoring and tracking of user information partaining to their products on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

In plain English, if you are a company and sell certain products; the new application will allow you to monitor conver [...]

Google soon to bring Coupons to Google Adwords

sean@thewebdesigncompany.co.za — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:00:00 +0100

Picking up on the social network I noticed some speak about Coupons coming to Google Adwords and soon found my way to this post on adwords.blogspot.com

Addition of coupons is going to be an awesome addition to Adwords for e-Commerce businesses whose Shopping Cart software can already support Coupon Discounts. From this post it seems that major advertising agencies are already getting an early move on the action with favourable results.

Addition of Coupons is an interesting mov [...]

Choosing a Web Browser

sasha@thewebdesigncompany.co.za — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:00:00 +0100

I have been hearing a lot of buzz recently about all these wonderful new web browsers. People around me have full blown arguments about their preference of web browser, and it mostly ends up in shouting with no result. So like the little explorer that I am, I decided to look into it and maybe take someone's side. I checked out Google's infant Chrome, Microsofts's upgraded Internet Explorer 8, and Mozilla's new Firefox 3.

The most wonderful thing I found is that they are all FREE [...]

PhoNet Vox Dealership Websites

sean@thewebdesigncompany.co.za — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0100

TheWebDesignCompany has been busy building the PhoNet Vox Dealer websites. PhoNet Vox Dealers are Vox Telepreneurs who have joined the Vox Telepreneur business by way of signing up under the PhoNet Vox Telepreneur Dealership .

PhoNet has given the first 30 people who have signed up under the PhoNet Vox Dealership a free website to help promote their Vox telepreneur business. The websites each have a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) and are built on the Open Source Conten [...]

How Important Is SEO For Your Website?

karen@karenwheller.co.za — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:00:00 +0100

Unless you want to make money online you dont need SEO . SEO is one part of the online strategy to getting customers, leads and making more business. If a website is sitting in the search engines listings on page 1,000,000 or even page 10 on goggle search, and no one can find it, then the website is really not doing its job and it probably was a waste of money in the first place.

There are 3 ways to get people to a website to generate leads and purchases:

Place adverts [...]

The barrier to entering the online business world

karen@karenwheller.co.za — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:00:00 +0100

Many people these days want to make a living online. Online business has become some sort of a fad. Though having an online business is a great thing (and I speak from personal experience), turns out that many people find barriers to entry, here are some points to consider if you want to start an online business:

1. You need to have either the technical skill or the money to build the website.

2. You need to find a product that people want to buy.

3. You need to continuousl [...]