WebSite Waves

My New Year’s Resolution for My Business

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:16:29 +0000

It’s one thing to claim your New Year’s resolution is to “not be so busy” or “spend more time with the kids,” but to make a New Year’s resolution for your business is a whole different animal. It means more to more people when your business is involved. One decision could have ripple effects in [...]

New SEO Instructions Coming from HereNextYear

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:45:41 +0000

HereNextYear will announce to its Level 1 members tomorrow, Friday, 11/2/2012, what changes Google has made this time. Yes, it’s that time of the year again where Google is changing their search engine results positions (SERPs) ingredients for organic search.decides to throw us all off kilter by I call them ingredients because getting any and every page [...]

WordPress Security Getting More Attention

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:37:05 +0000

Whenever I bring up the idea of WordPress security in my workshops, I can just see the audience start to drift their thinking to whatever they have planned for after the workshop. People in general are just not worried about their websites being hacked…until it gets hacked of course; and then of course we get [...]

Commenting Out in PHP Versus HTML

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:58:02 +0000

If you have something on your website that you want to remove, but you realize you might want to re-add it later, you might decide to “comment it out” instead of remove it altogether. Commenting out content just makes it easy to re-activate content instead of having to come up with the codes and/or image [...]

How to Calculate the Number of Blog Subscribers for Your Next Blog Tour

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:18:05 +0000

If you are considering advertising on a blog site or want to plan your next blog tour, you’re going to want to target blogs that have a good number of subscribers. After all, you’re going to spend time communicating back and forth with the blog owner in both cases. Why would you want to spend [...]

New Website for Professional Speakers Announced

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:10:08 +0000

Motivational Speakers Worldwide has launched as a new website for professional speakers and up and coming speakers to gain additional web promotion for their speaking availability and speaking business. Too many large-scale websites devoted to the promotion of speakers and trainers seem to be speakers bureaus where commissions are paid to the speaker’s bureau for [...]

Social Bashing Takes to the Streets

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:21:57 +0000

Social bashing started with what I call “hate sites” way back in the mid 1990′s where someone launched a website for the sole purpose of taking their frustrations out on a politician or business. Rarely did you see anyone go out of their way to make a hate site to go after a specific person [...]

Websites Crashed after Obama’s Speech Last Night

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:38:47 +0000

Did you hear the speech by President Obama last night where he suggested we the people should contact our congressman? Well, people did what they were told to do. Phone calls packed the lines and websites crashed.

41 Money Management Tips I’ve Learned

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:16:32 +0000

When I started helping people with their websites and Internet marketing strategy back in 1996, I immediately started getting occasional emails from designers and programmers wanting to know how I could possibly charge more than $10/hour for my services. A few years later when I formed the official company, HereNextYear, Inc., I’d get a few [...]

Problems Sending Email?

WebsiteWaves@HereNextYear.com (Marty Dickinson) — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:30:47 +0000

I’m pretty sure the most complex function on the Internet is the process of sending email. It seems like such a simple thing. But, if you’re experiencing problems sending email, you know first-hand how all of a sudden this seemingly easy function can become extremely difficult to handle. I’m no email expert, but I’ve certainly [...]