October Angela Booth’s Creativity Factory Archives

Web sites: is your site in Google’s sandbox?

You’ve developed a new Web site, and like all site owners, you want to get lots of traffic from the search engines immediately.
That can happen, but with a new site it’s unlikely. New sites spend from six to 12 months in the “sandbox”. A sandboxed site won’t appear in the search engine results for [...]

Marketing online - get a boost from competitors’ woes

Competitive intelligence is laughably easy on the Web. You can discover exactly how your competition is faring.
Jennifer Laycock’s excellent article even shows you how to take advantage of a competitor’s woes. Don’t Just Manage Your Reputation, Respond to Your Competitor’s recommends: “Setup alerts on your competitors names. Take the time to read their reviews at [...]