The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “12 Web Design Trends That Are “Sooo 2000″”. Meg Hoppe says, “The web has seen quite a lot of change since the first site was launched in 1991 (that site belonged to CERN, and you can see the original here). Designs, navigation, content, programming language, responsive capabilities…everything has evolved, and evolved dramatically. Yet we all occasionally see sites that make us feel as though we’ve slipped back in time (for some real fun, go to an actual web Wayback Machine and type in the URL of a site of somemajor... [...]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “How to Lower Your Site’s Bounce Rate”. Elisha Hartwig says, “On the Internet, a high bounce rate is the kiss of death — and a sure sign that your website and marketing strategy need a major overhaul. In order to better understand and analyze the success of your marketing campaigns, there are a plethora of web analytics tools to measure everything from time spent on site to cost per engagement, and it’s easy to become paralyzed by the inundation of data. But bounce rate is one metric savvy marketers can’t afford to ignore,... [...]

Many people find that that setting up an Amazon affiliate site is a difficult, time-consuming task. Bertus Engelbrecht and OJ James have created a WordPress plugin to help get your affiliate site running quickly. Azon Rocket 2.0 builds Amazon review sites faster than you can read this article. It went live at 11 AM Eastern October 30. The grand opening sale lasts only 1 week Until now, building review sites could be a slow process taking hours, starting with finding the right keywords and choosing the right products to review. Then setting up the site itself was a pain, too. Now, Engelbrecht and... [...]

Alex Cass and Alex Becker have another success on their hands. Over 8500 purchases of SEO Zen Pro. The have decided to raise the price to approximately double the current price tomorrow. If you are going to invest, don’t put it off. What’s all the excitement about? Well, we hear a lot about passive income these days. But, really, there is no such thing as “passive income”. You can take a week off from time to time, but you do you have to work hard to prepare your income streams to keep flowing while you relax. You build a website, structure sales pages, squeeze pages, and the... [...]

Alex Becker says he routinely ranks for keywords that get 5k, 10k, even 20k searches per month. Three principles direct his work to accomplish this: • Google favors sites structured in silos, especially sites with strong internal linking • Google give preference to relevant and unique content. They are trying to benefits their searchers, after all. • Video, especially YouTube video, rises to the top of the search results And, one more thing, Google still honors relevant, high PR links. And for the foreseeable future, it will continue to highly rank sites with high-authority links... [...]

No more boring fonts with G-font Plugin. Face it: the default WordPress font is dull (adj.: boring, bland, blah, vanilla, same ol’- same ol’). It does nothing to enhance the excitement of your message. But Google has free fonts that can dazzle your visitors. Google fonts can be three-dimensional, or have a drop-shadow, or have outline only, and be in many colors, plus many other effects. That’s in addition to the basic variations of serif and sans-serif fonts of many styles. With the rich variety of fonts Google offers free, you may never have to buy a font. And one more thing:... [...]

Chris Ripley has just released the new edition of his software that builds affiliate websites for the rest of us. No technical skills needed, says Ripley. He calls it Home Website Builder. Now, you can build and maintain your website with push-button ease. Just decide how you want it to look, and your new website can be online in a matter of minutes. There’s no more need to waste your time and money building your websites the hard way. Ripley’s new Home Website Builder does it for you. This software is highly optimized for new users. You just need to choose which of its professional designs... [...]

George Robinson has just announced his site building service, Your Mobile Money Site. Robinson has posted a video showing how you can have him build a mobile website that uses Amazon commissions to build an online business. This service solves a problem that many Amazon affiliate sites have; they don’t have a version optimized for mobile devices. Through the years,Amazon affiliates have been doing well, but as the buyer population switches to primarily using mobile devices, those commissions tend to fall since the ordinary affiliate site doesn’t look good on mobile phones and tablets. Robinson... [...]

Dr. Ron Capps has a service for marketers building their websites and, behind the scenes, building websites for their clients (leaving the client paycheck and admiration to go to the marketer.) His sites are, by no means, “bare bones”. They can be setup with a theme for many offline niches and they are full of helpful features for site management and for helping the owner build sales. Normally, his sites are $1995. But during his 66th birthday celebration he is offering a special deal for a limited time. The sites ready to go; just insert the appropriate client information. Deliver... [...]

Back in 2011 Anwesh Rath realized that there was a major gap in the internet marketing industry’s tool set. We have many products teaching how to write good headlines and many products providing good graphics capabilities. He decided that these two were closely related so he merged them to publish his best-converting headlines as visual headlines (with dramatic fonts and effects). This product was a big success. Today, he is releasing Version 2 of Copy and Paste Headlines. He chose to build this new version because a lot changed in 2 years. Banner blindness and popup blindness have increased,... [...]