If you run an e-commerce website, your merchant account provider is going to make sure that you are PCI compliant. Part of the compliance is with your website. It’s important to know that how your website is set up is only a part of the total PCI Compliance standard – not the whole thing. There [...]

I get asked all the time about how SEO works and most of it is really about getting incoming / inbound links. Let me explain what’s involved in doing that as well as some things to definitely avoid.
Think of a link to your website as a vote for your website. The more votes you get, [...]

Here’s an email I just sent to a client and I thought it would be good content to post here:
Well, there’s a bit more to it than just changing some words on your website to make your site rank higher. On some websites with less competition, you can do that and have some [...]

As people are finding out, it’s important to have your website up to date. It’s now, more than ever, the first place where people will go to find out about your business. And that makes sense, too. The Web is everywhere – in about every home, at the office, at coffee shops and on phones. [...]

Webstix is 9 years old today and starts year 10 – happy birthday!-Tony

As a follow up to my last post, Playing Monopoly – The Top Spot in Google (http://www.webstix.com/playing-monopoly-the-top-spot-in-google.html), I found this article today:
Link Building is Still a Numbers Game (http://www.seosmarty.com/link-building-is-still-a-numbers-game/) (www.seosmarty.com)
When it comes to ranking being first is the only thing that matters. Last month I had a site that has been [...]

Getting a top ranking for your website is important, we all know that. Getting on the first page of Google is definitely one goal but do you stop there? Should you strive and work to get #5, #3 or #2? Sure but what about #1? How much more traffic would you get if you moved [...]

I ran across a good article today that explain some details of SEO (search engine optimization). For those website owners who want to know a bit about how SEO works, check it out:
Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework (http://searchenginewatch.com/3640295) (searchenginewatch.com)
SEO can be boiled down to three core elements, or [...]

Yeah, I noticed this earlier this morning, too. Check it out:
Google ‘Spring Clean’ Search Results Pages (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/100505-150426) (blog.searchenginewatch.com)
In case you haven’t noticed yet, the look and feel of Google search results have changed (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-metamorphosis-googles-new-look.html). A post in the Official Google Blog by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products User Experience, [...]

I haven’t blogged in a little while because it’s been pretty busy here and also because I had to take one last ski trip. I went out to Colorado for five glorious days of skiing. It was amazing – there was fresh powder on several days. The locals were saying that it was the best [...]