Top 10 Internet Marketing Strategies To Build Your Business In 2013
Taking your business to the next level in 2013 At netgenus we have taken a good, long, hard look at where we are going this year, and like you, we are aiming for the next level! The nature of online marketing, from website to paid search campaigns, continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. For the past few years, netgenus has focused mostly on building awesome, reasonably-priced, Google-friendly websites for small businesses just like yours from Victoria,... [Read More...]
BCACG Presentation: How to Make Your Website Work for You
Thanks, BCACG, for inviting me to speak at your 2012 Symposium! This post is designed as a step by step informative DIY (do it yourself) resource to help you buy, host, create, maintain, backup and generally get the most out of your website using WordPress as a platform. STEP 1: BUY YOUR DOMAIN Get your domain at GoDaddy.com – but just say NO THANKS to all the other products they offer during the signup process. Bless their hearts, they... [Read More...]
Full cPanel Backup… Or Lose Sleep At Night?
Here are the instructions to take a full backup of your WordPress website! A full cPanel backup is a complete image of your website which you can download to your computer. We can go through this on the phone if you choose to book a training session to learn how to create a FULL cPanel backup of your website ($50 for existing netgenus.com customers) – or you can do this yourself if you prefer. Written instructions are below. HOW TO CREATE... [Read More...]
WordPress Website SPECIAL: $300
Back-To-Basics Sale: $300 + The Cost Of Hosting An AFFORDABLE Web Presence For Vancouver Small Businesses If you need just a starter website with YOUR branding and YOUR Words and pictures but are not ready to make a significant investment in your web presence, this is perfect for you! Here’s what you get: 1 Branded WordPress Website – Your choice of Light or Dark Theme: $300.00 * Click For Light... [Read More...]
CONTENT IS KING (Yes, It Still Is)
At the end of the day, search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, et al are 100% aware that they are only going to survive IF SEARCHERS FIND WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. It would be great to have a nickel for every customer who wanted to “add some keywords to the code to show up at the top of Google,” but sadly, it doesn’t work that way. It’s necessary to respect Google’s intelligence (and the others too of course, but WOW,... [Read More...]
PODOMATIC.COM – It Works!
A client asked me today if I knew about audios…. “As in ‘Podcasting?’” I asked. Well, all I could think of was podbean.com but … it wasn’t as much of a no-brainer as I thought and I wanted to slap up a demo to show how easy this stuff can be. It is easy… right? I thought I would take a look around and jumped right into podomatic.com. It works, right out of the box as it were – I feel I could recommend... [Read More...]
MATT MULLENWEG: WordPress Mastermind & Automattic [sic] Founder
Matt Mullenweg, the mastermind behind WordPress – what a genius! Read More →
MOBILE FRIENDLY: netgenus.com Welcomes iPhones, Androids, & All Their Little Friends!
Check out this site on your iPhone – come on, whip it out! What you will see on your mobile device is a completely different view from what you are seeing if you are on a regular computer right now, because netgenus.com is a WordPress website which is running an awesome premium plugin called WP Touch. This is just one more reason to have a WORDPRESS website. WP touch uses the standard WordPress post & page structure to automatically re-theme... [Read More...]
How To Add An Image To Your WordPress Post
All netgenus clients get a run-through on their new website admin panel, and the funny thing is that I barely get them logged in and tell them to click “Posts” before they are away to the races and tell me something like, “OK, I got it, you just type your post into this box and hit ‘Publish’, right?” It’s that easy. One thing that I’d like to mention is that images are important! If you ever stop and... [Read More...]
VALIDATING sitemap.xml & robots.txt Files on a New Website
Yes it’s important to let the spiders & crawlers & so on know how to index your new website! At netgenus solutions, a site isn’t finished until your sitemap.xml & robots.txt are done – and validated. Here’s a sitemap.xml validator: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html Here’s a robots.txt validator: http://tool.motoricerca.info/robots-checker.phtml For an extra $150, you get the ‘full... [Read More...]
