Web Development

Ok, let's say you've just completed development on your brand new site, and now you want to start driving traffic to it. What's the next step? How do your get traffic from search engines to come to your new site? Well, if you are on the west coast, you might start by consulting with a Los Angeles SEO Company or a Seattle SEO Company. They can give you some SEO tips and services to optimize your website for search engines. There are 100's of criteria search engines use when determining where to place websites in their index, and these guys know them all, and are more than willing to share them with you.

I've used Ebay for probably close to 10 years now. I have heard of Craig's list, but I never really knew what it was. Recently, I was asked to review Craigs list Overview, which provides all sorts of useful Information about Craigslist. They offer all different types of articles, including how to use Craigslist, how to avoid scams and frauds on Craigslist, and they explain Craigslist Navigation Step by Step. After going through this provided information, I feel more comfortable with Craigslist, and the next time I need to buy something online, I might give them a try. If you are looking for more information about Craigslist, then you've come to the right spot.

I went to to local Wal-Mart the other day to pick up a inkjet cartridge for my HP printer. Would you believe they wanted $50! Luckily I found that Atlantic Inkjet offers up to 75% off the retail amount for inkjet, or even toner cartridges. They've been in business for 10 years, and their cartridges are 100% guaranteed. And get this, they also offer free shipping for all of their inkjet cartridges and supplies. so you get up to 75% off retail price, and you get free shipping, plus a money back guarantee. That's an offer too good to refuse. No more trips to wal-mart to buy printer cartridges for me.

Ok, so you've got your ecommerce website all developed, you've got your products in order, and you've got your shipping logistics all ironed out. But what about payments? how are you going to accept credit cards on your website? Well, first of all, you're going to need a merchant account. Typically, merchant accounts come bundled with a payment gateway, which provides and API to integrate into your shopping cart software. We recommend EnsightMerchantServices.com, who offer a merchant account with Linkpoint as the payment gateway, and guarantee that they will be the merchant account rates and fees of any other company, or they will give you a American Express Gift Card for $100.

One nice little blog I've visited recently provides all different types of loan information. They provide opinions, news and articles on loan offers in the UK, including a very well written, key phrase packed, content rich article concerning debt consolidation loans. It looks like they're using WordPress to manage the content, and as such, it has all of the bells and whistles that WordPress offers, including automated RSS imports, and the ability to ping Google when new content is posted. This insures that that site will always have the most up to date loan articles indexed in Google in the shortest amount of time possible.

Our next review is for a personal loans comparison site. This site uses very clean template, and have what looks like a completely custom script to search through their database of loans, and return results that match your criteria. They offer personal loans, secured loans, and mortgages. They also have an automated RSS aggregator, providing the latest news articles regarding loans. The lack of adsense or other advertising on this site lends it a little more credibility, as the owner is not trying to monetize off of untargetted traffic, but rather is putting people who are looking for loans in touch with people who are providing them.

One of the most popular new trends in the world of purchasing traffic on the web, is through expired domains. Tons of domains expire every day, and some of them already have traffic. Registering these domains as soon as they expire is a great way to jump start a new web project. At ExpiredDomainUp.com, you can search through expired domains for domains that have Google Page Rank, or that are Yahoo or DMOZ directory listed, are that are short, or with .edu backlinks, or whatever you need. New domains are added each day, so you can search for the expired domain you want every day.

I'm not a big fan of sites that compare credit cards. This one might have changed my mind, and I might actually use them when I apply for my american express. Normally I find that these type of sites are written in static HTML, and the offer are almost always expired when the customer tries to sign up. But, this site seems to be a little better put together. They are using a clean, easy to navigate template, and all of the content is dynamic. They offer a substantial FAQ for any question you might have regarding credit cards and a guide to establishing and maintaining perfect credit. This simple, search engine optimized, content rich site should do well.

This one was fun. I've seen alot of large website in my day, but ipod.mu/sic is absolutly HUGE. The focus of this website is on music, and specifically on music for your ipod. The content is fantastic. They've got al lthe latest news from the music world, complete with links to itunes. They've got a section where you can shop for ipod products, seemlessly integrated forums for ipod discussion, a complete link directory and all of the other features and functions of a Joomla content management system.

Our latest review is about a new niche ecommerce store, Buskerdoo.com. They offer various electronic media protection products and accessories such as labels, CD sleeves, photo mailers jewel case inserts and CD storage products. In my opinion, they've targeted a perfect niche market because people are beginning to realize that if you need to send electronic media in the mail, you want ot make sure they are protected with cd/dvd mailers.