8 Bad Decisions When Starting a New Website

We talk all the time about "what to do", but rarely do we talk about "what not to do". We couldn’t pass up linking to
this great post
about how to sabotage your website.

27 Website Promotion Sources That Have Nothing to do with Google or SEO

Time to put your nose to the grindstone and start promoting your website. But how? Where?
This articles
has some fantastic tips and tricks to help you in the ongoing effort of promoting your website and your business.

Ten Web Strategy Blog Posts

What is your web strategy? Do you have one? You need one. Read the articles
referenced in this blog post
and you’ll be well on your way to effective strategy for your website.

50 Easy Tips to Keep your Blog Search Engine Optimized

Keeping your website optimized for search engines is a full time job and it’s important you give it the attention you deserve. You alone control the destiny of your sites search engine health and this article points to some very important steps you should following on a regular basis.

Content

Content is always king.  Make sure your […]

5 Simple Ways To Get Repeat Business

What business would survive without repeat business? Very very few.
Don’t miss this article
on how to keep bringing those customers back for more!

Writing For Your Business Website

We’ve talked before about the important of having quality content on your website. It doesn’t take a professional to make content engaging and helpful and
this articles
shows you how to keep your content fresh and readable.

5 Ways Small Business Can Benefit From Social Media/Networking Sites

If you’ve written off social networks like Myspace and Facebook as passing fads you’re missing out on a goldmine opportunity for promoting your business.
This article
gives some wonderful tips on promoting your business and website through popular social media outlets.

Some of the most popular sites include Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, and YouTube however, it does […]

25 Ways to Promote Your Website or Blog

The web offers a myriad of options for promoting you site without spending a dime!
This article
highlights some great resources for promotion and marketing. Definitely worth a read!

Grip Your Readers With These 7 Knock-out Opening Sentences

Not everyone has copywriter on staff, and it can be a real struggle to write content and is sensible and captivating at the same time. Are you looking for ways to spice up your articles, blog posts and products?
This articl
e has some great tips on how to write captivating content. Here’s a preview:

You might […]

Looking for decent tech support?

Great new resource for your bookmark collection -
techsupportcenter.org
. Free, live support from qualified, volunteer technicians. We can handle all your online support, and as much as we’d love to help you if your computer breaks down - these guys are probably a little more qualified

From Reuters: Poll finds nearly 80 percent of U.S. adults go online

If you own a business you need a website - and this article is proof! A stunning 80 percent of adults spend an average of 11 hours online each week - for entertainment, education, information and shopping.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Do you find yourself going online more and more? You’re not alone.

Four out of five […]

30 Ways to Improve Readability

We’ve gone out of our way to make sure our default themes are "reader" friendly, but it’s up to you carry on the habit of effective readability throughout the lifetime of your site.
Read this great resource
for tips on how to improve the readability of your site. Here’s a sneak peek:

Underline your links. Readers […]

30+ Ways to Advertise Yourself Online

Check out
this great article from Mashable.com. It’s a huge resource for online advertising. Here’s a quick look:

“After all the talk we’ve done about designing a site, building it, and naming it, now you need to get the word out. Time to buy (or sell) some advertising! We’ve found 30+ resources and tools to help […]

4 unique (and FREE) ways to market your company

Having a huge marketing budget isn’t always a recipe for success. It’s the little things that often make the biggest difference.

Eight Ways to Write a Successful Newsletter

Sending newsletters is a great way to stay in touch with your customer base and reach out to new customers as well (though not nearly as effective as a well-written and cared-for blog).

25 Ways To Improve Your Website Today

We’ve uncovered some great tips for improving your website. The following article highlights many of the steps in our own process of setting up your site and getting it ready for the world.

Web Standards: What they are and why they matter to your business

A new term has emerged in the web world and it’s one worth noting: Web Standards. To put it simply, web standards refers to the practice of adhering your site to simple rules for designing, coding and accessibility purposes.

7 Rules for Communicating Clearly and Concisely in Email

We’ve all had it happen: you write an email to a client or co-worker that you think is pretty straightforward only to find later on that it’s caused major confusion. We can’t stress enough how vital it is to practice effective communication when emailing. Here’s a great article on the importance of communicating clearly through email.

Stop using Internet Explorer: Firefox is the Future

More people are interested in switching from IE to Alternative Browsers than ever before. See why they made the change and how easy it was. Discover the 101 features that Firefox offers over IE 6.0.

Search Optimization Tutorial

It’s an unfortunate fact - no matter how good your search engine optimization company or in-house talent is, brand new websites have a more difficult time achieving search engine success for competitive phrases than their older counterparts, particularly on Google. However, the worst thing that a new site owner can possibly do is presume that they are “too late to the game” and decide not to pursue this marketing channel at all.

Website Checklist

So you’ve built a great site and you’re going to deploy it soon. Are you sure you haven’t forgotten anything important prior to deployment? This checklist highlights many of the points we work so hard to cover when building your site and it’s here to remind you about all the little things that are easily overlooked during the ongoing maintenance of your site, to help ensure that your site is ready to perform and stay online.

Free Tech Support Resources

If you’re tired of waiting on hold for your tech problems to be solved or would like to actually start learning how to help yourself instead of always relying on the IT department (or your techy nephew) than you need to read this article .

A Crucial SEO Element: Web Site Credibility

Part of making a site a success from an SEO standpoint is making it credible and trustworthy. Being trustworthy means a site is more likely to draw high quality organic links, more likely to be mentioned in the press, and more likely to convert for consumers in your target market.

Abel Creative launches new site

Welcome to Abel Creative. We’ve launched our new site and have a slew of new services we’re really excited to share with you.

In our ongoing effort to eliminate the gap between technology and the common man, we want to be open and transparent with our services and our prices. No contracts. No hidden fees. No “contact us for a quote”. Everything is there up front.

44 Internet Marketing Articles That Everyone Should Read

This is a great list of free marketing tools and techniques for marketing your company or product. Marketing your company is a full-time job and it’s important to make consistent, smart decisions when it comes to online marketing.

11 Guidelines to Social Media Success

The online explosion of social networks has created a huge opportunity for businesses of all kinds. If you’re not actively marketing on popular social networks, you’re missing a huge segment of your audience.

20 Hard Core SEO Tips

These are intense and not suitable for all business types but give you an idea of some of the more “bleeding edge” SEO tips that can help your site rise above the rest in Google, Yahoo and all the other major search engines.

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