Web Design Denver

WordCamp Boulder 2010 was my first WordCamp event. As a web designer, SEO, and online strategy consultant, I found the sessions and opportunity to meet others in the industry to share ideas and information very useful. Even though you know much of the material already because you’re in the biz, there are always things you [...]

Some quitting Facebook as privacy concerns escalate By John D. Sutter, CNN May 13, 2010 1:56 p.m. EDT (CNN) — Concerns over Facebook’s new privacy policy and the online social network’s recent efforts to spread its information across the Web have led some of the site’s faithful to delete their accounts — or at least [...]

SciTechBlog May 4, 2010 Internet Explorer losing grip on browser market Many people complain about Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. There have even been campaigns to kill old versions of the Web browser. But despite the haters, IE has always remained way on top. In June 2002, 95 percent of computers accessed the Internet through the product, [...]

Why Advertising is Failing on the Internet by Eric Clemons, March 2009 Advertising will fail for three reasons: There are three problems with advertising in any form, whether broadcast or online: Consumers do not trust advertising. Dan Ariely has demonstrated that messages attributed to a commercial source have much lower credibility and much lower impact [...]

SUNDAY, JAN 17, 2010 09:00 EST Smaller Startups to Fuel M&A Fire in Mobile Ads This Year BY COLIN GIBBS The mobile ad space continued to heat up last week with Amobee’s acquisition of RingRing Media, a 2-year-old London-based startup, for an undisclosed sum. The move surely isn’t anywhere near the magnitude of Google’s $750 [...]

Facebook, Twitter users beware: Crooks are a mouse click away By Stephanie Chen CNN (CNN) — If you’re on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networking site, you could be the next victim. That’s because more cyberthieves are targeting increasingly popular social networking sites that provide a gold mine of personal information, according to the [...]

YouTube Monetizing More than 1B Video Views Per Week By Liz Gannes Gigaom Network When will YouTube be profitable? “In the not-too-distant future,” said Google CFO Patrick Pichette on today’s quarterly earnings call, same as he said last quarter. He did offer a “sound bite” to appease investors and industry watchers: “We’re monetizing more than [...]

The wave of Internet advertising that locally focused media companies have been surfing for five years has now peaked, and some media companies are starting to eat sand. For the first time since they began selling online advertising more than a decade ago, sales are in decline for the majority of legacy media companies, but [...]

As presented by Tim Ash of SiteTuners at Affiliate Conference Denver, CO June 2009. We won Tim’s book “Landing Page Optimization” in a drawing! #1 –  Call to Action not clear Visitor does not know what they’re supposed to do. How to order, what number to call, how to contact? #2 – Distracting Visuals Too [...]

Many SEO companies can provide businesses with valuable services, but you need to beware because there are many SEO companies or companies claiming to be SEO’s, that use unscrupulous marketing tactics and make false promises in an effort to get your money.  Be particularly cautious of companies that solicit you with unsolicited telemarketing calls or [...]