The Niche Store Builder

Can a Plugin Leave Tell Tale Footprints?

Mark Hansen — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:28:55 +0000

There has always been a bit of heat about whether leaving footprints behind can hurt your efforts to build and market a website. Some people like myself, go out of the way to remove them, and others swear its just a case of being paranoid or wearing a tin-foil hat (I have one of those!) and is a waste of time. So the question is… Can a Plugin leave a trail that may hurt you? (I can’t resist)My guess is that most people fall somewhere in the middle of the road… ...

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How Bad Do You Want It? Win This Website

Mark Hansen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:12:47 +0000

Quick, Simple and Easy 2-Day Contest to win one of the websites we built with the Keywords to Websites plugin. There are a few requirements, so please make sure you read this entire post… The Clean Air Guide was built earlier this month as one of the sites we used to test our use of the site builder plugin. It’s a very basic site that’s ready for additional natural article marketing or someone who may want to drive PPC at it, whichever you prefer. I have a sum total of about ...

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Big Brands Get a Kickback from Google, Everyone Else Gets F*

Mark Hansen — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:58:55 +0000

Just because I decided to start using Bing versus Google for all my web searching doesn’t mean I don’t revisit to see whats going on and compare results with those returned at Bing. At some point over the weekend, I noticed that brands seemed to be popping into the result pages much more than before when I was searching for things related to my sites… guess what, Google made another change to reinforce brands! In the past, when you searched for an Apple ipod or an HP Printer, you had a ...

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WordPress Dropping All Pages? Don’t Panic!

Mark Hansen — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:38:08 +0000

For the third day in a row, I have been contacted about someone waking up and finding that their entire WordPress powered website had dropped all the pages and content! Today, it also happened to one of my own sites! Here is what you find:You Visit your Website The Homepage or ANY Page is Blank, or delivering a 404, not found error.Rule #1 – Don’t Panic…. I don’t know WHY this happening at this point, but every site I have spotted it on is using “page” for the homepage, versus the most recent posts like ...

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Yahoo and Bing are Almost One… Are You Ready?

Mark Hansen — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:22:35 +0000

Bing and Yahoo, the two headed spear that hopes to bite into the market share of Google, will be sharing natural search results by the end of the week! This is not real news to people searching the web as it will pretty much be a seamless transition. To you and I, Webmasters, and website owners… it might just be a big deal! Later this week, we will begin transitioning the back-end technology for Yahoo! Search in the U.S. and Canada (English) over to the Microsoft platform, and will post an ...

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Lets the Shopping Season Begin!

Mark Hansen — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:21:23 +0000

Since the beginning of the month, several of our sites that deal with consumable and gift type products have started seeing a large upswing in both traffic and sales revenue! :-) If July is traditionally the slowest month of the year for commerce, August is definitely the kick start to the shopping season! This is the right time to gear up for the next 4 months of the year, which will account for more than 75% of revenue for the entire year for many of the large chains! Lets take a look…August Back ...

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Great Read about SEO from Aaron Wall and Jon Glick

Mark Hansen — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:37:22 +0000

Many of you who have known me for several years, know that I come from a background of custom and personalized web development with a background in SEO. I have been a silent reader of Aaron Wall at SEOBook for several years, I own the SEOBook myself, and when I saw him post an interview of Jon Glick of Become.com today, I ran over to read it! I suggest ANYONE who is interested in SEO, take a trip over and read the Jon Glick Interview as well. Get a beverage, give yourself ...

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I Finally Did It… and You Can Too!

Mark Hansen — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:59:47 +0000

Today… after 8-9 years of a mutually beneficial, and not always friendly relationship… I have separated myself from using Google as my default search engine, and while the new engine may not be perfect, I have found it to be better, and easier to use, more often. I may choose to switch back one day… but for now, my search business has moved elsewhere. I Quit Using Google Search for Now! Why, you ask? The results since the Mayday and Caffeine update… well, the search results kinda suck!It takes 2-3 searches to find ...

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Web Page Optimization with SEOPressor

Mark Hansen — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:31:37 +0000

Web Page Optimization and on-page SEO does not have to be one of those voodoo processes that scares the heck out of most people! There are some basic principals of web page optimization (ext: Google) like proper keyword density, use of heading (h1, h2, h3) tags) tags, image optimization and so much more, that help anyone who is willing to follow some standard practices, and develop effective habits for your web page optimization. I am NOT going to blow smoke up your butt and tell you that fixing on page factors ...

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Keywords to Websites | K2W Update Coming Monday!

Mark Hansen — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:59:22 +0000

I woke up this morning to find a fresh copy of the Keywords to Websites in my email from Mark W. for weekend testing of some much requested changes Also, the $30 Off code WSO still works! Changes in this new version -Added: Option to nofollow all outgoing links. Added: Option to open all outgoing links in new window. Added: Link Cloaking For Ebay and Amazon With 301 Redirects.Added: Option to limit Amazon.com results to a single Asin.Added: Price And Buy Button To Amazon ResultsK2W Results to Date I have talked to many of ...

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