http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net Thoughts on Web Site Design and Search Engine Marketing Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:55:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know. You've got a wonderful web site offering the best wacky widgets in the universe at prices that are out of this world. There's just one problem. No one is visiting the site! You type wacky widgets into the search engines and your site is nowhere to be found. ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/seo-consulting-from-kingsley-graphics.html Starting an ecommerce site or online store may not be as difficult as you think. Of course, there are those "ready-made" online stores where you pay a fairly hefty monthly fee and much of the behind the scenes stuff like accepting credit card payments is all done without any interaction ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/getting-started-with-ecommerce.html Here's a simple problem that can cause major ranking problems on Google and other search engines. I mean simple in the sense that it doesn't take much effort on your part to fix. Question: Can your web site be accessed using both the www and non-www versions of your site's URL? ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/canonical-problems-duplicate-content-pagerank.html I just came across a WordPress plugin called My Video that makes it really easy to post YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, and MySpace videos to your WordPress blog. Just go to the My Video download page and download the plugin file to your computer and then upload it to the ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/plugin-for-adding-videos-to-your-wordpress-blog.html I'm glad you asked! If you read my previous post about Google Base, you've already seen how having your products listed there can dramatically increase your exposure in Google's regular search results. Getting your products listed is not difficult. 1. Go to http://base.google.com. If you already use Google services such as Google ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/how-do-i-get-my-products-into-google-base.html If you operate an online store or otherwise sell products on the internet, you need to know about Google Base. Formerly known as Froogle, Google Base is an online catalog of products and services for sale over the internet. The BEST thing about Google Base for you as an online ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/google-base-boosts-exposure-rankings-sales.html If you're a web designer and you've upgraded to Photoshop CS3, you've probably already noticed a glaring omission: ImageReady is no more! I had noticed this, but my curiosity hadn't driven me very far in finding out where or why it's gone and what Adobe was planning to replace it ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/whatever-happened-to-imageready-cs3.html March 27th saw the biggest ever software launch in Adobe's history. I always get excited about Adobe software launches, and this was no exception. One of the first things I did that day was go to the ASN site and see if anything was available for download. It was! Sitting ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/hands-on-with-adobe-creative-suite-3.html The Energy Pros are a coalition of contractors, manufacturers and builders in Indiana and Kentucky who are working together to educate the public and passionately promote building energy efficient homes. Recently we changed the color scheme on their entire site and put in place a really ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/the-energy-pros-gets-facelift.html If your site isn’t showing up in Google’s search results, I’m going to help you find out why and tell you what to do about it. First of all, though, let’s find out for sure whether or not your site is in Google’s index. If your site doesn’t come up when ... http://blog.kingsleygraphics.net/web-design-news/why-isn%e2%80%99t-my-site-showing-up-in-google.html