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5 free online marketing resources

Search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing and many other things related to emarketing is not something mysterious that only a few wizards can do. There is a lot of things you can (and should) do…before you turn to the wizards for that final golden touch.

Learning how to use online marketing for your business takes time. There’s no quick fix available, but the resources below will give you a great start for both learning and doing. Make this knowledge work for you and your business!

0. Before you do anything else

  • First – make sure you have Google Analytics installed on your site, so you can track visits and much more.
  • Then – register at Google Webmaster Central and update the settings so it suits your site.
  • Now – you’re good to go, so keep on reading.

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Performance and seo optimized framework

Many frameworks and templates available for creating websites are extremely useful and built with amazing features and options. However, there is one problem…

Following the discussions around frameworks there are a few major things we feel stand out in the discussions. Besides flexibility, one topic in the heart of it all is performance and seo optimization.

In far to many cases web development frameworks load all of the code (html, javascript, php or css) -> for all the available features & enhancements -> on all of the pages. Even if the feature is not being used. A bit of madness right there! (more…)

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Search Engine Optimized Copywriting

Is your cool new JJ website user friendly? There’s more to a successful website than cool JoomlaJunkie templates. They’re an important first step. People judge by first appearances but then they want to find what they’re looking for quickly and easily.

How to hook your customers and then keep them

You need sales oriented SEO copy that engages both your customers and the search engines! And then you need to ensure that your site navigation makes it easy for your customers to find the information and products they’re looking for.

Special offer for JoomlaJunkie template users

To help you get the most from your cool JoomlaJunkie site The Copywriter Online has come up with a great special offer for October.

You can have your homepage professionally written with crisp, sales oriented SEO copy plus a site review (10 pages max) that will tell you what works and what doesn’t for only $250! That’s great value. The average cost for such a service is $520.

Get in quick as this offer is available to first 20 customers only. Visit the contact page and put JJ site offer in the subject field and then The Copywriter online will contact you to discuss details. Simple!

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Joomla and Magento. To integrate or not.

There’s been a lot of talk of the new ecommerce platform, Magento. I must say, it’s one sexy platform. Without doubt, Magento will be the leader in open source commerce, if it isn’t already. Packaged with all the bells and whistles, this SEO-ready platform has released it’s first stable version with force.

Magento already has a substantial following. Without doubt, we’ll start seeing the Magento template shops start popping onto the seen. Many Magento-Junkies come from a Joomla-based background and seem eager to get their hands on the feature rich, best-of-breed ecommerce platform. Most, if not all, have one thing in mind: to develop, hack, extend, modify and integrate. (more…)

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