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RSS Feeds for Syndicating Your Web Content March 2007
Learn the basics about RSS Feeds for content syndication.

Why Some Fancy Websites Are Bad for SEO - October 2007
Fancy websites laden with Flash, Javascript and images can wreak havoc on your site's search engine optimization.

7 Ways to Grab the Attention of Your Busy Prospects Online
Provides 7 Facets to Successful Web Marketing - Sept. 2007

Is Your Website Being Penalized by Google?
Detecting and Avoiding Google Penalty Triggers - Sept. 2007

10 Search Engine Optimization Mistakes
10 Steps to make sure your website is invisible to the search engines. Sept. 2007

How to Generate Leads from Your Website
Gives overview of lead generation for your website. August 2007

Romancing the Search Engines by Jenna Ryan - July 2007
Turning the search engines on to your website.

10 Ways to Optimize Your Website

How to Get Noticed Online without Lifting a Finger - January 2007
Easy ways to achieve your high ranking goals.

Blackhat & Spam - Bad SEO Tactics - January 2007
What not to do when it comes to Orgranic Search Engine Optimization.

How Much Do Real Estate Websites Cost? - January 2007
Comparison of the different types of websites available.

Do It Yourself SEO Analysis - January 2007
Shows you how to analyze your own website for it's search engine effectiveness.

High Price of Cheap Web Design - January 2007
What can happen to you if you skimp on your website.

10 Myths of Real Estate SEO - January 2007
Addresses the main rumors going around about optimization and the web.

Real Estate Lead Generation Survey - December 1, 2006
Overview of real estate lead generation tactics, from different

Writing Your Own Web Content - July 5, 2005
Tells you the skinny on writing for your website.

Content is King - February 1, 2005
Explains why you need content for your website.

Benefits of Web Content
Why web content rocks.

Web Content Tips - December 2004
Time-tested tips for web content for search engine optimization.

"Riches in Niches" - Streamlining Your Web Content
Why your website needs a niche.

10 Web Marketing Ideas
Ways to market your website.

Web Marketing Basics - January 2005
The basics of online marketing.

Web Sales Strategies - January 2005

Keyword Research - 2006

How to Find out Your Google PageRank - November 2005

Writing for People and for Search Engines - July 7, 2005

Web Content - 2005

SEO Linking I

SEO Linking II

SEO Reciprocal Linking

SEO Backwards Linking

Linking Resources

SEO Keywords

Keyword Research - Jan. 25, 2006

Google Sandbox - Trustbox - Google Changes Lately

Domain Naming

Determining Link Value

The Effect of SEO on Web Design

SEO Directories

Google Sitemaps API

Page Names & Titles for SEO

How Google Works

USEIT.COM USABILITY ARTICLES

Let's learn from one another. Usability guru, Jakob Neilsen, who analyzes the web results of Fortune 100 companies, shares his knowledge with us--get this--for free.

Incompetent Email Newsletters - Useit.com

Top 10 Blog Mistakes
- Useit.com

Forms or Applications
- Useit.com

Drop-Down Menus: Use Sparingly
- Useit.com

Usability 101
- Useit.com

Top 10 Guidelines for Home Page Usability


After the Buy Button in E-Commerce
- Useit.com

Trust or Bust: Communicating Trust in Web Design


Most Hated Advertising Techniques
- Useit.com

Information Articles Must Ask for the Order


Will Text Ads Continue to Rule?
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Request Marketing
- Useit.com

People spend less than 2 minutes on a website - Business Week - Jacob Nielsen

Websites must be simple to get people's attention - Business Week / Jacob Nielsen

Websites must have addictive content - NYTimes / Nielsen Quote

Only 50% of Web users scroll down below to see what's on the page - NYTimes

Users spend 30 seconds reviewing a home page, - NYTimes / Nielsen

The most important rule in Web page design is to eliminate unnecessary design - NYTimes - Vincent Flanders

The first time a word is used on a site, it’s significant,” said Matt Cutts, a Google software engineer. “If that word is used 50 times, there is a diminishing return.”

If your site is not listed on the first page of search results, you might as well not exist,” Mr. Nielsen said. - NY Times

People are More Trigger Happy - BBC - Nielsen

"It's almost like a piano player who plays faster once they know the instrument. In the beginning people 'pling, pling, pling' very carefully, and then they move on to playing symphonies."