Hi, Cricket! I’m writing concerning not my primary website, but my Craft Cave website. I have been trying to find an inexpensive web hosting package which includes a built-in shopping cart. The host I use for our primary site is great, but too expensive for my secondary, small site. I did check out 1&1 per …
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Hi Cricket, Wanting to do a link / resources page on my website, but there are too many links to do it manually, so I need some sort of search engine script to put them into categories etc. Could you recommend anything like that? Thanks for your help. Regards, Erica Mueller, Sydney Australia Earth Repair …
Read MoreAffiliate Sales and Your Site 0
Before November, I was enjoying good traffic from my targeted key phrases used for my marketing strategies for the search engines. Recently though, those traffic dwindled by half although I keep on producing good and quality content according to what you taught in the SEO classes. Many reports say that the search engines have changed …
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Cricket, Does a website need a white background to give it a “professional” look? I sell handcrafted gifts. Does it make a difference what you are trying to sell? I hate white . . . white walls, white uniforms. (too many years as a nurse . . . lol) What about text? Do you have …
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Dear Cricket, Do you ever lose motivation? Do you ever lose inspiration? Where do you find it again? Laura Jarbeau, Swartz Creek, Michigan Crestwoods Cane Corsos Hi Laura! Of course! We all have those days when we wonder why on earth we ever got into this business. Sometimes this is caused by not taking …
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Hi Cricket! When I discontinue a product, what is the best way to handle the now-obsolete page? I have a custom 404, but I wondered if there is a preferred way of doing it. If I am replacing the product with a somewhat similar one, is there any advantage to keeping the page but replacing …
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Hi Cricket, I am starting fresh and building a brand new website. After taking your classes for several sessions, SEO and marketing are always forefront in my mind – kudos lol If you were building a brand new site how would you approach it from an SEO standpoint? Obviously it takes a lot of time …
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Cricket, When I first created this site the thinking was to make it as simple as possible for the customer to get to the product. I think it was that it should be less than 3 clicks. That is why I put everything on one page. Now, after going through the classes I believe I …
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Cricket, Recently, because of economic reasons, I had to focus more on my associate and affiliate programs. I researched good key phrases which the people are using to find products and services related to the theme of my web site. From these good key phrases that I obtained, through your teaching methods in SEO, I …
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Hi Cricket, When I view my site in Page Source using Mozilla as a browser, the code is in several different colors. Is there a way to use this color coding to see mistakes in my code or gather beneficial information from it? Thank you, Sean Troy, Gilbert, AZ Wood Turned Dreams Hi Sean! When …
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Hi Cricket! I currently use Cox Cable but use my old AT&T address. McAfee SpamKiller will not work unless I use a COX address. Other than the Outlook Express blocker is there any SPAM blocker software available that will work when the primer server address is not used? Ken Coryell, Coronado, CA Golden Rule Society …
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Hi Cricket! I have a program that I use to help me maintain my website and it has a portion for “Optimize pages” where it gives you advice on optimizing the pages for search engines. It’s really helpful to check on keyword density, weight, word counts and such before I publish. One of the things …
Read MoreIntroducing Ask Cricket 0
If you could ask Cricket anything… Ask Cricket is a project I created to supplement the training provided in our Website Development Training Center. It gives our members a place to ask those questions that don’t quite fit into the group categories. I WILL DEFINITELY SEE YOU AT THE TOP! Ask Cricket Small Business Marketing …
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