While we’re in the process of consolidating our sites, I decided to do something I’ve long been intending to do: put the final nail in the coffin of Faceup-Sites and create an essay to replace the downloadable e-book that was what remained of the site. That e-book was very exhaustive and had some really good [...]
Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category
The Making of WoodyPaigeQuotes.com
One of our biggest initiatives moving into 2010 is to really evaluate all of our sites and all of the functions within those sites and decide what is worth the time and what isn’t moving forward. Clearly, one of the things that did not work was the Tastefully Driven forum. Except one thread that did [...]
Announcing Z.ips.ME – Your Very Own URL Shortener
Background When I started using Twitter, one of the first things that piqued my interest was URL shorteners. Not only does it make no sense why Twitter doesn’t officially have their own URL shortening service (although bit.ly is sort of official now), but it really made no sense to me why everyone used either bit.ly [...]
Breaking Down the New Detailed Image – Part 3 of 3
Now that I’ve outlined the majority of the improvements on Part 1 and Part 2, I want to take a step back and quickly talk about why I think this was a successful project. The Process & The Time Frame We didn’t really plan it this way, but from the time we launched the previous [...]
Google Me
No, seriously, Google me. I finally, finally, rank #1 for “Adam McFarland”: Take that Adam-McFarland.com! Only took me like 3 years of actively maintaining a blog while that site hasn’t changed since about 1998…
Selling Push vs. Pull Products
One of our Tastefully Driven vendors recently contacted us to see if we were ready to re-order their products yet. We’ve placed one other re-order since the launch of the site, but overall their products haven’t sold very well compared to other brands. We don’t have a ton in stock, but they’re moving so slow [...]
FaceUp Web Marketing eBook Updated, Still Free
Quick post here guys. Just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve updated our free FaceUp Web Marketing eBook. It’s been over six months since the last update. The book still gets a decent amount of downloads so I want to be sure that the information conveyed is accurate. The biggest update has to do [...]
New TD Store – Electronics Cables
A few months back one of our friends – a former business owner who has now cashed out and is “living the good life” – turned us on to a distributor of high quality cables for low prices. We take his word pretty highly since he’s hardcore into ultra high-end audio equipment. He told us [...]
Sell Products? Do This
I’ve said it before, but it amazes me how many online retailers don’t submit their products to Google Base. It’s free, they support a slew of formats (upload products one at a time, upload a spreadsheet, or auto-FTP from your database like we do), and it gets your products shown on Google Base, Google Product [...]
The Art of the Launch
I’m going to take a step back from our pre-launch marketing for Tastefully Driven to go over our overall launch plan – from conception to where we are now to what we have left to do. I’m not saying that there aren’t different or even better ways to deploy a site, just that this process [...]
