Friday, June 18, 2010
I have been outrageously busy rewriting a MASSIVE travel website from English to Portuguese. This is nearly like work. However, I have worked before...my first 10 years were spent in warehouses of one kind of another. Have you ever unloaded a boxcar? It's grand fun.
But anyway, I LIKE making pages, and the air conditioner is running flat out and that's nice. In the meantime, in an earlier post I mentioned the Coupon page. Well, I must say, the deer cam on there has just been spectacular lately. But you never know...
Shortly after spring sprung, the deer vanished, for the most part and I took the thing down. I keep a copy on my personal home page, so one day I noticed that the screen was loaded up again. After a few days of this I decided to put the feed back up for everyone who likes deer and wildlife in general to enjoy. If I were working in an office and had an idle computer, I guarantee you that I'd have it online!
GetCalhoun.com Coupon/Deer Page. It is the only coupon page on the internet with its very own LIVE wildlife camera! Tell your friends and click on those coupons! Wow!
P.S... Just checked... Near dark right now, there are 11 deer messing around the live cam.
But anyway, I LIKE making pages, and the air conditioner is running flat out and that's nice. In the meantime, in an earlier post I mentioned the Coupon page. Well, I must say, the deer cam on there has just been spectacular lately. But you never know...
Shortly after spring sprung, the deer vanished, for the most part and I took the thing down. I keep a copy on my personal home page, so one day I noticed that the screen was loaded up again. After a few days of this I decided to put the feed back up for everyone who likes deer and wildlife in general to enjoy. If I were working in an office and had an idle computer, I guarantee you that I'd have it online!
GetCalhoun.com Coupon/Deer Page. It is the only coupon page on the internet with its very own LIVE wildlife camera! Tell your friends and click on those coupons! Wow!
P.S... Just checked... Near dark right now, there are 11 deer messing around the live cam.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Have you heard our advertisements for GetCalhoun.com on WDNG Newstalk 1450 radio?
One of the first questions I was asked, way back at the beginning, was from a prospect who wanted to know where we advertised. My answer was that, well, GetCalhoun.com advertises itself. And so it does. Where does any advertising concern advertise? Where does the Anniston Star advertise? See what I mean?
However, I'm not set in my ways. It always helps to broaden your horizons. Chances are that some of WDNG's listeners have never heard of GetCalhoun.com, so if one of our ads makes them flee to their computer to check us out, guess what? All of GC's clients are served! It's kind of like ponying up to be on GC and getting free radio time in the bargain.
While I'm here, I should explain that the internet, is not, and probably never will be traditional media. Traditional media is:
However, traditional media advertising is expensive. No doubt about that. Many small businesses don't need high dollar traditional media ads. Or they can't afford it.
Advertising on websites like GetCalhoun.com is very cheap, by comparison. The only problem is that there are NO other websites like GetCalhoun.com. The sites that you could advertise on locally just don't get many page views. And the far away sites that do get tons of views won't do you any good locally. GetCalhoun.com bridges the gap very nicely, and it's totally unique.
If you have a product or service that folks are interested in, GetCalhoun.com is the best ad money you can spend. The price is chicken feed when you factor in that it's available and will be found by those who look.
When you think traditional media, think big money and immediacy. The only downside to GC is that if you need results right this minute, then you're spending your money at the wrong place. You see, while your ad is visible immediately, it takes from a week to a couple of months to percolate into the search engines. So, if you're selling pizza, and you don't mind waiting a bit, then anyone searching for pizza in this area will see your page on GC. But, if you have a pizza sale that must go next Saturday, then you should consider traditional media.
I will offer that for the month of May, GetCalhoun.com got something over 5000 page views. That being the case, our growing stable of clients got views from folks who surfed on for one thing, and stayed to look around. So, while you're waiting for your page to climb in Google, it's still getting seen. And of course, anyone who stops by GC and is looking for what you do will find it anyway.
One thing you should be aware of. When you are approached to advertise on a website and they give you some fantastical number of hits, you should ask them for unique views and page views. For May, GC got 15,000 hits. Hits is not the measure reputable web guys use. Hits are the measure of everything. If a page has ten photos, say, then that counts for 10 hits for one page view. So, don't fall for inflated traffic figures.
I'll be giving more hints and tips on good web advertising.
One of the first questions I was asked, way back at the beginning, was from a prospect who wanted to know where we advertised. My answer was that, well, GetCalhoun.com advertises itself. And so it does. Where does any advertising concern advertise? Where does the Anniston Star advertise? See what I mean?
However, I'm not set in my ways. It always helps to broaden your horizons. Chances are that some of WDNG's listeners have never heard of GetCalhoun.com, so if one of our ads makes them flee to their computer to check us out, guess what? All of GC's clients are served! It's kind of like ponying up to be on GC and getting free radio time in the bargain.
While I'm here, I should explain that the internet, is not, and probably never will be traditional media. Traditional media is:
- Radio
- Television
- Newspapers
However, traditional media advertising is expensive. No doubt about that. Many small businesses don't need high dollar traditional media ads. Or they can't afford it.
Advertising on websites like GetCalhoun.com is very cheap, by comparison. The only problem is that there are NO other websites like GetCalhoun.com. The sites that you could advertise on locally just don't get many page views. And the far away sites that do get tons of views won't do you any good locally. GetCalhoun.com bridges the gap very nicely, and it's totally unique.
If you have a product or service that folks are interested in, GetCalhoun.com is the best ad money you can spend. The price is chicken feed when you factor in that it's available and will be found by those who look.
When you think traditional media, think big money and immediacy. The only downside to GC is that if you need results right this minute, then you're spending your money at the wrong place. You see, while your ad is visible immediately, it takes from a week to a couple of months to percolate into the search engines. So, if you're selling pizza, and you don't mind waiting a bit, then anyone searching for pizza in this area will see your page on GC. But, if you have a pizza sale that must go next Saturday, then you should consider traditional media.
I will offer that for the month of May, GetCalhoun.com got something over 5000 page views. That being the case, our growing stable of clients got views from folks who surfed on for one thing, and stayed to look around. So, while you're waiting for your page to climb in Google, it's still getting seen. And of course, anyone who stops by GC and is looking for what you do will find it anyway.
One thing you should be aware of. When you are approached to advertise on a website and they give you some fantastical number of hits, you should ask them for unique views and page views. For May, GC got 15,000 hits. Hits is not the measure reputable web guys use. Hits are the measure of everything. If a page has ten photos, say, then that counts for 10 hits for one page view. So, don't fall for inflated traffic figures.
I'll be giving more hints and tips on good web advertising.
I just added a new news section for your enjoyment. It's called Persuasive Essay Topics. It's a funny title with a purpose. It has to do with SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. Not only is this new section enjoyable to read, but my hope is that it will further enhance GC's rankings in the search engines...which is VERY good for our clients! It will make their GC pages more visible to search engines too.
We have written and are writing a series of fun history articles for the very purpose of making GetCalhoun.com more scrumptious to the search engines. We have posted them all over the place, so I figured, what the heck. Why not make them available here too? I think you'll like them, and maybe make some connections with why things are the way they are too.
We have written and are writing a series of fun history articles for the very purpose of making GetCalhoun.com more scrumptious to the search engines. We have posted them all over the place, so I figured, what the heck. Why not make them available here too? I think you'll like them, and maybe make some connections with why things are the way they are too.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Have you visited our GetCalhoun.com Coupon Page? You ought to drop by. Awhile back I placed a very special Live Cam on there. I can promise, there is NO other coupon page in all of America with this type of live web cam on their site, much less a page with coupon specials on it. I'd say it's pretty much unique.
Drop by and check it out. Check out the coupon specials. Check out the crazy wild party cam. The festivities really gets wild after the sun goes down. But you may get a glimpse of some of our very dear shoppers at most any time. It's very decadent!
PS... The Coupon Page Party Cam is subject to be removed at any time. The party cools off, it's coming down!
Drop by and check it out. Check out the coupon specials. Check out the crazy wild party cam. The festivities really gets wild after the sun goes down. But you may get a glimpse of some of our very dear shoppers at most any time. It's very decadent!
PS... The Coupon Page Party Cam is subject to be removed at any time. The party cools off, it's coming down!
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