A successful website requires a great deal of ingenuity, planning, and visual attention getters in order to attract visitors, have them return... (more)

Does your website need a total makeover or just a little makeup to liven it up? Keep reading to discover the different kinds of high-quality website content and why I think it's like makeup for your webpages. Every website is trying to provide information to people. Observant website owners know that people want quality information and interactive tools from their sites - not just optimized, keyword laden verbage - and they give it to them. (more)

Building the web site is just a starting point, you need to submit your website to search engines and directories. You also need to keep your visitors stay longer and browse your website. (more)

A sticky website is one where visitors love to spend time, and return frequently. Here are some suggestions on how to make your website sticky... (more)

We’ve been submitting links each day for www.WebCalcSolutions.com, mostly to directories. We also had a service submit the site to over 120 search engines. About a week later Google page rank climbed a notch and the Alexa rank drops almost every day. It’s hard to tell cause and affect because we added some RSS articles and a few […] (more)

When it comes to websites “sticky” seems to be the latest buzzword. But what makes a website sticky and how do you make your site more sticky? A “sticky” website is one where the visitors “stick” around finding things to do. Sticky content for your site might include articles, games, videos, news, RSS feeds, Google gadgets, or interactive tools […] (more)

Apparently it’s been a couple of busy months, because I can’t believe it’s been that long! We’ve been busy adding some features to www.WebCalcSolutions.com and responding to users who have downloaded free calculators and assessments. It’s funny how you see a little bit of everything – some people don’t finish the signup, some people give […] (more)

Our website (www.WebCalcSolutions.com) began offering free calculators a week or so ago. It was exciting to get a couple of emails showing some sign ups! If your site could use financial calculators, health calculators, health quizzes, or parenting quizzes go check out what’s free. I’ve really got to focus on links, after all, “Content is Queen, […] (more)

Blogging for my website product was the furthest thing from my mind early on in my attempts to promote my site. What would be interesting to blog about? There was no doubt in my mind which blogs get attention – sensational, passionate, controversial. My product is useful to most people, but kind of boring to […] (more)

Something is going on with reciprocal links that feels like a scam to me. Here’s the scenario… I find a place that allows me to submit my link to their site. They often require a reciprocal link, which is fine and fair. But what about when they require me to add their link and give […] (more)

Most of this last week was just working on the ongoing items…  I’ve been creating gadgets from Digg.com widgets. While they are not related to calculators, they are easy and quick to create and it helps with author ranking.  I’ve been continuing to submit links to sites and directories, learning to use the software and getting a feel […] (more)

Over the last couple of months, we have created about 40 Google Gadgets from our calculators. Of all the things I’ve done to promote my websites so far, Google gadgets has brought by far the most exposure to our product – and it was almost immediate. In case you don’t know, Google gadgets are miniature tools that can […] (more)

I hear that offering something free is a good way to get traffic and links. So the last couple of days, we decided to add the ability to offer calculators free. We already had the ability to handle it in the data, but we have to decide which ones to offer for free, make sure the shopping […] (more)

Yesterday and today I’ve spent most of my time bookmarking my 2 sites, www.WebCalcSolutions.com and www.BizCalcs.com . I had created a spreadsheet grid so I thought it would be easy and not take much time – I was wrong. We added the AddThis bookmarking tool to the sites a week or so ago and I […] (more)