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- Adding A Search Engine to Your Web Site
- Google’s New Search-based Keyword Tool
- Google Search Wiki: Beware The Shady SEO
- Beyond Google: Don’t Ignore Local Search Engines
- Instant Social Network: Google Friend Connect
- SEO and Web Marketing in a Recession: Luxury or Necessity?
- Feedblitz and Talkr: When you want more than RSS Feeds
- Redesign: Do Your Homework On Your Audience
- Meta Tags: Don’t Forget the Basics
- My Site Sucks…Quick Fix
- Ad-blocking Plug-ins: Are Ad Supported Sites Doomed?
- ELGG and Social Networking
- Mark8t’s Basic Google Chrome Toolbar
- Mark8t Gets Twitter: We’re Twitterfied!
- How to create Web Slices for Internet Explorer 8
Thursday January 8th, 2009
Adding A Search Engine to Your Web Site
From Mark8t, 1 day ago,
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Once your site starts to get a bit larger, with lots of products/pages and services, you might consider adding a search engine to your site. You should think long and hard before you do. Don’t do it for the sake of doing it. There are many options, including letting the design of your website be [...]
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Thursday December 25th, 2008
Google’s New Search-based Keyword Tool
From Mark8t, 15 days ago,
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With Google, they are always new tools and gadgets and sometimes it’s hard to keep track of them all. On our blog, we hope to highlight them for you. One such item is Google’s newly released keyword tool (Click image to left to enlarge). This new keyword selector is especially for Google Adwords users and [...]
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Google Search Wiki: Beware The Shady SEO
From Mark8t, 15 days ago,
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Have you ever searched with Google, and known a site or found a site you thought should be at the top of results? Well with Google’s newest feature, for users with a Google account, you can now make those changes. The new feature is known as Google Search Wiki. The name of the product [...]
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Sunday December 21st, 2008
Beyond Google: Don’t Ignore Local Search Engines
From Mark8t, 19 days ago,
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It is hard to think there are places where Google is not number one in the search business, but it is true. There are five countries recently profiled for bucking the trend. It’s important to know the below web sites, especially if you are targeting customers in these regions. (Detailed stats from Comscore)
1- Yandex, which [...]
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Saturday December 13th, 2008
Instant Social Network: Google Friend Connect
From Mark8t, 27 days ago,
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Have you ever wanted a social network on your site? Maybe you wanted to have a review of your products or a simple way to allow visitors to add comments. Usually you would need some sort of database, and a basic knowledge of programming to get this done. Google has now made it possible for [...]
Wednesday December 10th, 2008
SEO and Web Marketing in a Recession: Luxury or Necessity?
From Mark8t, 1 month ago,
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The financial storm we are now in has seen lots of cuts to company budgets. It does not take a psychic to see more cuts coming. Of course we are a bit biased in our opinion, but you should really consider twice about cutting any SEO or Web Marketing expenses. Remember one thing: people [...]
Sunday December 7th, 2008
Feedblitz and Talkr: When you want more than RSS Feeds
From Mark8t, 1 month ago,
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The other day we discussed about web-redesign and how you need to study your audience. Sometimes you will miss things you might not even realize. One of the things we changed with our redesign was the removal of many widgets from the sidebar. This included our Twitter and FeedBlitz subscription links. We thought we had [...]
Redesign: Do Your Homework On Your Audience
From Mark8t, 1 month ago,
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Everyone needs a change once in a while. This is the purpose behind our crisp new look here at mark8t. We hope you agree the site is much more pleasing to the eye and accessible. We thought long and hard about redesign, because it can have it’s perils, but we thought it was time.
In our [...]
Friday November 28th, 2008
Meta Tags: Don’t Forget the Basics
From Mark8t, 1 month ago,
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Recently we were working on a site for a Fortune 500 company and we were shocked to see the lack of interest in meta tags. A quick look at the source code of the company website left us aghast. The web designer for the company, had created beautiful pages, but had also created generic header [...]
Sunday November 23rd, 2008
My Site Sucks…Quick Fix
From Mark8t, 1 month ago,
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Recently we have been asked to use our SEO expertise and evaluate some nice looking sites. But truthfully, looks mean nothing without traffic. These clients have come to the conclusion that their site isn’t what it could be, so that made the job a little easier. Having an open mind and being logical is important [...]
Saturday October 11th, 2008
Ad-blocking Plug-ins: Are Ad Supported Sites Doomed?
From Mark8t, 3 months ago,
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Have you ever heard of “Adblock” or “Adblock Plus“? If you are a user of Mozilla and relatively tech savvy you probably have. For those that aren’t in the know, “Adblock” or “Adblock Plus” are plug-ins which block ads from being served by a website. As a web matser, a web marketer and an [...]
Saturday September 27th, 2008
ELGG and Social Networking
From Mark8t, 3 months ago,
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Have your ever wanted a social network or a Facebook-type application for your office, or possibly your customers? Well ELGG is for you. What is ELGG? ELGG is a web 2.0 open-source script written for PHP5, that allows you create your own Facebook-like site. It is easy to install, and quick to modify (with some [...]
Monday September 15th, 2008
Mark8t’s Basic Google Chrome Toolbar
From Mark8t, 3 months ago,
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As Google Chrome works it’s way through Beta, we wanted to offer Google Chrome users a quick way to access our site and get some functionality for other sites as well. Right now there are many ways (in other browsers) to do that. Up to now, Google Chrome has no toolbar. But now it does! [...]
Sunday September 14th, 2008
Mark8t Gets Twitter: We’re Twitterfied!
From Mark8t, 3 months ago,
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Okay, we’re sure our English teacher’s would kill us for the title, but it’s true. Mark8t is now Twitterfied. What does that mean? We have made a decision to join Twitter for this blog. Now I a sure most of you know what Twitter is, but in case you don’t Twitter is “a micro-blogging service [...]
Saturday September 13th, 2008
How to create Web Slices for Internet Explorer 8
From Mark8t, 3 months ago,
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Earlier we spoke about the new “toolbar” strategy of Internet Explorer 8. One of those elements is something called Web Slices (icon to the left). A Web Slice allows users to subscribe to a portion of your web page, through their favourites toolbar. As Microsoft describes it: “The Web Slice format consists of the minimum [...]