Got Ethics? Sign the Performance Marketing Pledge
by Peter Devereaux
Got Ethics? Sign the Performance Marketing Pledge
The performance marketing industry has obtained a bad reputation over the years, leading many Internet ...
Equal Access - What You Need to Know About Making Enterprise Websites Accessible
by Peter Devereaux
Equal Access - What You Need to Know About Making Enterprise Websites Accessible
By Carin van Vuuren, Chief Marketing Officer at Usablenet 2013 was a big year for digital accessibility - the ...
Conversion-Driving Keywords to Know
by Peter Devereaux
Conversion-Driving Keywords to Know
Google pretty much handcuffed the SEO community by rolling out its "keyword not provided" initiative - and ...
3 Things to Know About Ephemeral Sharing
by Peter Devereaux
3 Things to Know About Ephemeral Sharing
Ephemeral messaging apps, which enable users to share content that only lasts for a short period of time ...
3 Ways Companies Innovate Through Corporate Culture
by Peter Devereaux
3 Ways Companies Innovate Through Corporate Culture
By Diana Zelikman, Fueled Companies need to innovate in order to survive. Fostering that innovation can be ...
The Great Debate: Responsive or Optimized?
by Amberly Dressler
The Great Debate: Responsive or Optimized?
Responsive Web design is a hot topic, but is it the only way to go? Nearly 20 design and user experience ...
Mobile Load Times for Responsive Sites Unacceptable
by Pete Prestipino
Mobile Load Times for Responsive Sites Unacceptable
Many responsive sites are experiencing sluggish load times and image size is being reported as the principle ...
How to Give a Good Lecture
by Ilan Nass
How to Give a Good Lecture
Public speaking is an opportunity to exchange ideas, and lectures do just that. They can engage audiences ...
Online-Only Loyalty Programs that Rock
by Peter Devereaux
Online-Only Loyalty Programs that Rock
Loyalty programs have long held a prominent role in many industries - most notably lodging, transportation ...
GigaSpaces Increases Asia Pacific Presence
by Amberly Dressler
GigaSpaces Increases Asia Pacific Presence
A new partnership between GigaSpaces and two Asia Pacific (APAC) re-sellers is helping customers realize ...
How 9 Well-Known Websites Looked Way Back When
by Amberly Dressler
How 9 Well-Known Websites Looked Way Back When
There's always a need to reflect. It shows us where we've been and helps us determine where we want to go. ...
jQuery for File Uploads
by Pete Prestipino
jQuery for File Uploads
If providing file upload functionality on your website would be a welcome addition to the user experience, ...
Kenshoo Gets $20M in Growth Financing
by Peter Devereaux
Kenshoo Gets $20M in Growth Financing
Kenshoo, which currently delivers more than 1 trillion digital advertisements on an annualized basis and ...
Remarketing Made Easy
by Pete Prestipino
Remarketing Made Easy
Google announced the release of Smart Lists, making automating list creation for the purpose of remarketing ...
How Your Company Can Get With the Times
by Ilan Nass
How Your Company Can Get With the Times
When most people think of old-school companies they think of decisions being made at a snail's pace and a ...
7 Free Tools for Small Business Success
by Ilan Nass
7 Free Tools for Small Business Success
Looking to help your business succeed, but don't want to waste money on useless products? How does free ...
Chat Up Mobile Site Visitors
by Peter Devereaux
Chat Up Mobile Site Visitors
A new chat offering from TouchCommerce is helping merchants increase engagement and conversions on their ...
Bazaarvoice Reviews Options, Prepares to Divest PowerReviews Business
by Amberly Dressler
Bazaarvoice Reviews Options, Prepares to Divest PowerReviews Business
Turns out technology acquisitions don't always have a happily ever after. In a story that involves the ...
6 Cover Photos That Are Better Than Yours
by Amberly Dressler
6 Cover Photos That Are Better Than Yours
A brand's Facebook cover photo is like a free billboard. If a company can get current and prospective ...
Freelancer Adds Fantero to its Virtual Mix
by Peter Devereaux
Freelancer Adds Fantero to its Virtual Mix
Writing and design are two functions most likely to be outsourced according to research from Content ...
Essential Marketing Skills Every Person Should Know
by Ilan Nass
Essential Marketing Skills Every Person Should Know
Still think marketing has to be sleazy? It doesn't have to be. Let's face it. Without properly marketing ...
SoFi and P2P Lending Make Their Mark
by Pete Prestipino
SoFi and P2P Lending Make Their Mark
Peer-to-peer lender Social Finance (SoFi) has closed an $80 million round of funding. The new round, which ...
China's Web Outage: Defense against the Risk of Third-Party Services
by Peter Devereaux
China's Web Outage: Defense against the Risk of Third-Party Services
By Heiko Specht, Compuware APM Center of Excellence On Tuesday, January 21, one of the biggest outages in ...
Top 50: Performance Marketing Platforms & Networks
by Peter Devereaux
Top 50: Performance Marketing Platforms & Networks
The affiliate marketing landscape is in a state of near perpetual change. The methods used to attract website ...
The Digital Evolution of Programmatic Media Buying
by Nicholas Galante
The Digital Evolution of Programmatic Media Buying
Buying "media" has grown tremendously in the past few years. As the ecosystem continues to expand, systems ...
Never Make a Beautiful Website
by Peter Devereaux
Never Make a Beautiful Website
American vocalist Jimmy Soul, best remembered for his 1963 hit single "If You Wanna Be Happy," was in great ...
Net Briefs - April '14
by Peter Devereaux
Net Briefs - April '14
Getty Images Unlocks Its Photo Vault Getty Images is making millions of its stock images available free via a ...
Web Performance Profile: Cedexis
by Peter Devereaux
Web Performance Profile: Cedexis
The cloud. Private data centers. Global delivery networks. Brands have many choices when it comes to where ...
Stat Watch: Digital Salaries
by Peter Devereaux
Stat Watch: Digital Salaries
In 2012, the Institute for Women's Policy Research reported a gender wage gap of 19 percent, with women ...
4 Welcoming Navigation Menus
by Peter Devereaux
4 Welcoming Navigation Menus
Website visitors - especially first time ones - are like house guests. Web designers and developers need to ...
The Modern Product Page
by Peter Devereaux
The Modern Product Page
At 5 years old, I was positive that robotic maids and flying cars would be part of my life by the time I ...
Growing Up CRO: The Conversion Maturity Model
by Peter Devereaux
Growing Up CRO: The Conversion Maturity Model
We know that infants flop before they crawl, crawl before they walk and walk before they can run. So I find ...
JOIN THE DIGITAL CLUB
by Peter Devereaux
JOIN THE DIGITAL CLUB
By 2020, customers will manage 85 percent of their relationship with a company without actually talking to a ...
The Omnichannel Breakthrough
by Matt Swan
The Omnichannel Breakthrough
While a number of advertisers have already successfully rolled out multichannel strategies, the need to place ...
You Had One Job! Simple Things Tech Companies Got Wrong
by Peter Devereaux
You Had One Job! Simple Things Tech Companies Got Wrong
By Ilan Nass, Fueled Tech companies are growing and becoming more creative and innovative with their product ...
10 Ways to Improve Your Team's Productivity
by Aby League
10 Ways to Improve Your Team's Productivity
Working with a team will always have its obstacles, from managing personalities to managing projects. There ...
Lotame Acquires AdMobius for Mobile Audience Management
by Pete Prestipino
Lotame Acquires AdMobius for Mobile Audience Management
Data management platform (DMP) Lotame recently announced the acquisition of AdMobius, a mobile audience ...
6 Tips for a Bulletproof Responsive Website
by Tina Yeung
6 Tips for a Bulletproof Responsive Website
Understanding the importance of responsive Web design (RWD) is to realize that the Web "canvas" is not ...
5 Beta Checklist Must Haves
by Danielle Vitogiannes
5 Beta Checklist Must Haves
There's nothing more deflating to a digital development team than launching a website and finding a typo, ...
5 Businesses That Leave You With No Excuses
by Ilan Nass
5 Businesses That Leave You With No Excuses
Although some businesses offer great products or services, they may not have addressed reasons why people ...
How to Score Cool Points with Millennials
by Amberly Dressler
How to Score Cool Points with Millennials
Youth may be wasted on the young, but a brand's marketing dollars aren't. A new study from SDL shows just how ...
25 Traits You Need to Master to Become Influential
by Peter Devereaux
25 Traits You Need to Master to Become Influential
By Todd Crawford, Impact Radius A tech evangelist. A Fortune 500 CEO. A big-time foodie. Influential people ...
Why Crowdfunding is Potentially Harmful to Inventors
by Edward Lakatis
Why Crowdfunding is Potentially Harmful to Inventors
Today, everybody is familiar with websites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. The crowdfunding phenomenon has ...
Weekend Warrior: 6 Digital Spring Cleaning Strategies
by Allison Howen
Weekend Warrior: 6 Digital Spring Cleaning Strategies
The days are starting to get longer and most of the U.S. is beginning to thaw out from a very rough winter, ...
Pinterest Gets Rich with New Gifts Feed
by Peter Devereaux
Pinterest Gets Rich with New Gifts Feed
Social pinboard Pinterest is now profiling products available for purchase with the introduction of a special ...
What is WordPress?
by Kelly Meeneghan
What is WordPress?
When Web professionals embark on a new project, they often resort to WordPress as an open-source application ...
When Is Being Ethical Ridiculous?
by Ilan Nass
When Is Being Ethical Ridiculous?
We live in a world where companies are trying to be politically correct and ethical to avoid lawsuits and ...
Amazon Unveils Seller App for iOS
by Allison Howen
Amazon Unveils Seller App for iOS
Amazon sellers can now do things like list items for sale and respond to customer messages while on the go, ...
Don't Be Late to the Loading Party
by Peter Devereaux
Don't Be Late to the Loading Party
In life, we all have acquaintances that pride themselves on being early for events. Although their promptness ...
Net Briefs - March '14
by Peter Devereaux
Net Briefs - March '14
In each print issue of Website Magazine, our staff of editors publishes a few of the most interesting news ...
Taking the Bait: A Day of Retargeting
by Peter Devereaux
Taking the Bait: A Day of Retargeting
Imagine investing your time and money into a product that only works 1-3 percent of the time. Most of us ...
When Not to Test
by Peter Devereaux
When Not to Test
As an Internet professional, you've probably gotten your fill of testing advice. Almost every tip you come ...
Inside Scoop: Agency Tales
by Peter Devereaux
Inside Scoop: Agency Tales
Deciding on a design and development partner can be an onerous task, for a variety of reasons. Not only do ...
5 Best Practices of Modern Internet Advertisers
by Peter Devereaux
5 Best Practices of Modern Internet Advertisers
Advertising to today's modern consumers takes equal parts accommodation and innovation. The majority of ...
Why Olympic.org Failed To Qualify
by Peter Devereaux
Why Olympic.org Failed To Qualify
James Ramsey, CEO, FiddleFly The Olympics are a celebration of human agility, strength and achievement ...
4 Ways Your Company Can Win Over Millennials
by Ilan Nass
4 Ways Your Company Can Win Over Millennials
Sure, you may or may not be able to relate to a millennial, but that doesn't mean your company can't win them ...
Website Experience Affects Public Perception
by Pete Prestipino
Website Experience Affects Public Perception
Seventy-six percent of ecommerce decision makers believe customers' perceptions of their brand are directly ...
Eliminating Fraud: Lessons for Securing More Online Transactions
by Peter Devereaux
Eliminating Fraud: Lessons for Securing More Online Transactions
By Tara Lavelle, CardinalCommerce From major data breaches to record numbers of online shoppers over ...
The Benefits of Marketing Integration (and How to Do It)
by Joy Gendusa
The Benefits of Marketing Integration (and How to Do It)
Online marketing tactics like websites, pay per click (PPC), email and search engine optimization are ...
How to Handle Catastrophes Like a Boss
by Peter Devereaux
How to Handle Catastrophes Like a Boss
By Ilan Nass, Fueled Sure, being the boss has its advantages, like dictating your own schedule and hiring ...
FEATURED: Use the C.L.I.C.K. System to Assess Your Website
by Peter Devereaux
FEATURED: Use the C.L.I.C.K. System to Assess Your Website
By Graham Jones, Internet Psychologist, www.grahamjones.co.uk There is a lot we still need to discover about ...
Hey Google, That's a Big Video
by Pete Prestipino
Hey Google, That's a Big Video
The search results pages are dynamic places. Dynamic in that they change and evolve - sometimes faster than ...
Lotame, MediaCrossing Partner for Cross-Channel Audience Intelligence
by Pete Prestipino
Lotame, MediaCrossing Partner for Cross-Channel Audience Intelligence
Data management platform Lotame and digital media trading firm MediaCrossing have partnered to help ...
If You Want My Data, Reward Me
by Peter Devereaux
If You Want My Data, Reward Me
EDITOR'S NOTE: Every time you provide personal details for free to data-gathering giants like Facebook and ...
Monitor Your Digital Marketing... Anywhere
by Pete Prestipino
Monitor Your Digital Marketing... Anywhere
Predictive media optimization technology provider Kenshoo has released a prototype of a new mobile ...
5 Surprising Mentors of Legendary CEOs
by Peter Devereaux
5 Surprising Mentors of Legendary CEOs
By Ilan Nass, head of marketing at Fueled It's no secret that the greatest minds have been shaped by ...
Is Your Business Concept Unique Enough?
by Ilan Nass
Is Your Business Concept Unique Enough?
At some point, between sitting in your garage scribbling ideas and actually getting your business started, ...
Spredfast Takes First Global Step
by Amberly Dressler
Spredfast Takes First Global Step
Opening an office overseas is definitely a big step, for any company, (just think about all the logistics ...
LinkedIn Gets Data-Centric with Bright Buy
by Peter Devereaux
LinkedIn Gets Data-Centric with Bright Buy
Professional social network LinkedIn announced the acquisition of Bright, a job-matching and "data insight" ...
Digital State of the Media
by Pete Prestipino
Digital State of the Media
"Media" is an increasingly important element of the digital ecosystem. In its annual State of the Media ...
Stripe Supports 130 New Currencies
by Allison Howen
Stripe Supports 130 New Currencies
Stripe is taking over the globe, because the popular payment platform has announced that it now supports more ...
5 Business Moves That Took Guts
by Ilan Nass
5 Business Moves That Took Guts
Most of us have found ourselves in a situation when you know that one particular decision could either make ...
10 Overnight Website Improvements
by Peter Devereaux
10 Overnight Website Improvements
The Internet doesn't shutdown for holidays, late nights or lunch breaks. This means that Internet ...
Capture Emotional data with BehaviorMatrix
by Pete Prestipino
Capture Emotional data with BehaviorMatrix
BehaviorMatrix, an applied behavior analytics company, has been granted a foundational patent (8,639,702) by ...
Commentary: Contagiously Optimistic
by Peter Devereaux
Commentary: Contagiously Optimistic
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." That famous quote from President ...
Everyday Digital Optimization
by Peter Devereaux
Everyday Digital Optimization
Walk into any office on a Friday, and you are likely greeted with genuine good cheer from the individuals who ...
Brainy: Improving Online Forms [CONVERSION CORNER]
by Tim Ash
Brainy: Improving Online Forms [CONVERSION CORNER]
Have an online form that just isn't performing? Wondering what's wrong? The answer may be simple, you might ...
Olympic Web Performance of TeamUSA.org
by Pete Prestipino
Olympic Web Performance of TeamUSA.org
The Olympics will soon dominate media headlines. From across the globe, top athletes will descend upon Sochi, ...
5 Ways to Cater to Males AND Females Online
by Peter Devereaux
5 Ways to Cater to Males AND Females Online
As the saying goes, "men are from Mars and women are from Venus," but still many of us choose to partner with ...
Mindshare Driving Location-Level Performance
by Pete Prestipino
Mindshare Driving Location-Level Performance
A new offering from Mindshare Technologies hopes to solve a very real problem for enterprises large and small ...
Live Chat & Recurring Billing Merge at ClickDesk, Chargify
by Pete Prestipino
Live Chat & Recurring Billing Merge at ClickDesk, Chargify
Live chat and online visitor engagement software ClickDesk announced an integration with Chargify, a popular ...
The Fundamentals of Running Online Events
by Peter Devereaux
The Fundamentals of Running Online Events
One of the best ways to spread the word about your brand in today's digital world is through content ...
Why Your Company Needs an App Right Now
by Antonio Armenino
Why Your Company Needs an App Right Now
With the mobile phone market projected to continue to grow in the next few years, why wouldn't you want an ...
Essential Tips for the Success of your Enterprise Mobility Efforts
by Nilesh Talaviya
Essential Tips for the Success of your Enterprise Mobility Efforts
Employees in most businesses are relying more and more on smartphones and tablets to get work done. Sure, ...
Don't Forget Millennial Moms
by Amberly Dressler
Don't Forget Millennial Moms
Creating marketing campaigns targeted toward Millennial Moms is a huge opportunity for companies looking to ...
5 Laws I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Business
by Ilan Nass
5 Laws I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Business
The most common way for today's entrepreneurs to start their companies is to lock themselves in their garage ...
A Pin-Worthy Personalization Idea
by Amberly Dressler
A Pin-Worthy Personalization Idea
Did you know that 47 percent of online consumers have made a purchase based on merchandise they saw on ...
OpenX Appoints Cameran Harman as Managing Director of EMEA
by Pete Prestipino
OpenX Appoints Cameran Harman as Managing Director of EMEA
OpenX Technologies, Inc. (OpenX), a global leader in digital and mobile advertising technology, today ...
DDos Attacks Increase 32 Percent YOY
by Pete Prestipino
DDos Attacks Increase 32 Percent YOY
DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack protection service Prolexic Technologies published a report on ...
New Ways for Companies to Monitor Employees
by Katrin Deres
New Ways for Companies to Monitor Employees
Every business owner knows that good employees are their most valuable asset, but they can also do the most ...
Banned by Google? Don't Panic!
by Pete Prestipino
Banned by Google? Don't Panic!
Billions of dollars are spent by consumers on retail websites every year. Those ecommerce merchants that can ...
Website Crash? Don't Panic
by Pete Prestipino
Website Crash? Don't Panic
Most Internet professionals don't give their choice of Web hosting a second thought - at least not until ...
FYI: The ABC of CRO for B2B
by Peter Devereaux
FYI: The ABC of CRO for B2B
Joe Doveton, GlobalMaxer "Not the right time"- just one of the objections I have heard from ...
The App Store Sees a $1 Billion December
by Allison Howen
The App Store Sees a $1 Billion December
Apple's App Store had a year that would blow Dr. Evil's mind, as the company announced that customers spent ...
Now is the Time to Startup
by Peter Devereaux
Now is the Time to Startup
It's hard to pinpoint just how many Web businesses exist at any given time much less offline enterprises that ...
Spredfast Nabs Cool $32.5M
by Amberly Dressler
Spredfast Nabs Cool $32.5M
Spredfast's impact in the social sphere is spreading, well, fast. Today, the social relationship platform ...
Get a Faster Website (and Chiseled Abs) With This One Simple Formula
by Peter Devereaux
Get a Faster Website (and Chiseled Abs) With This One Simple Formula
What determines how well your website performs? Don't worry if you are unsure how to answer this question. ...
Tech Checklist: Digital Marketing in the New Year
by Mike LaVista
Tech Checklist: Digital Marketing in the New Year
If you're an online marketing professional in charge of driving new business, you know the use of the right ...
Shopify Kicks Off 2014 with Focus on Mobile
by Allison Howen
Shopify Kicks Off 2014 with Focus on Mobile
It looks like mobile's momentum is pushing forward into 2014. Popular commerce company Shopify has just ...
New TLDs: How to Protect Yourself Against Online Vulnerabilities
by Robert Hoffmann
New TLDs: How to Protect Yourself Against Online Vulnerabilities
More than 250 million domains were registered worldwide, as of last year, (according to Verisign's latest ...
Get Paid! Top Recurring Payment Platforms
by Peter Devereaux
Get Paid! Top Recurring Payment Platforms
Businesses that offer products on a subscription model spend a lot of time and effort Two Global ...
Big List of Live Chat Solutions
by Peter Devereaux
Big List of Live Chat Solutions
One of the ways that Internet retailers can bridge the gap between their digital stores and competition from ...
5 Tips to Create, Conquer a Business Plan
by Peter Devereaux
5 Tips to Create, Conquer a Business Plan
There comes a time in every entrepreneur's life when it's time to write a business plan -- at least it ...
Life as a Live Chat Operator
by Peter Devereaux
Life as a Live Chat Operator
Customer service, when it takes the digital form, adds an additional layer of complexity. Not only is it ...
9 Success Metrics for Every Business
by Peter Devereaux
9 Success Metrics for Every Business
The availability of data in today's digital world has led many business professionals to become overwhelmed ...
Beyond Comment Cards: Feedback Platforms
by Peter Devereaux
Beyond Comment Cards: Feedback Platforms
Feedback is an essential part of improving relationships and getting the "right" feedback, from the "right" ...
Tips, Ideas & Strategies to Create A Great Marketing Plan
by Alex Genadinik
Tips, Ideas & Strategies to Create A Great Marketing Plan
This article is an attempt to compile all marketing strategies that actually work, that should be a part of ...
How and Where Today's Companies Hire
by Peter Devereaux
How and Where Today's Companies Hire
Even with the passion of a startup, there is always a time when you'll need to start hiring others to take on ...
Haggle Your Products Online
by Amberly Dressler
Haggle Your Products Online
Name your price is a concept that is familiar to consumers thanks to websites like Priceline, Progressive ...
Time to Give Tableau a Go?
by Peter Devereaux
Time to Give Tableau a Go?
Data visualization platform Tableau, which benefitted from a well-over one billion dollar IPO in early 2013, ...
Tech Moments That Will Shape 2014
by Peter Devereaux
Tech Moments That Will Shape 2014
What better time than the last day of the year (2013) to look back at some of the best and worst moments and ...
2013 Stats in Focus
by Pete Prestipino
2013 Stats in Focus
A new column was added into the print edition of Website Magazine this year and it's helping Internet ...
Web Trends Small Businesses Need to Know in 2014
by Paul Fu
Web Trends Small Businesses Need to Know in 2014
Many technology trends for 2014 have already been deduced based on data and observations from 2013 and prior ...
Track Santa" Program Sets Records"
by Amberly Dressler
Track Santa
Some brands will never become household names. Technology companies, especially in the business-to-business ...
Experts Speak: 2014 Digital Predictions
by Amberly Dressler
Experts Speak: 2014 Digital Predictions
This year is slowly coming to an end and if you aren't exhausted, you may have done something wrong. Digital ...
What Does a Digital Marketer Do Anyway?"
by Peter Devereaux
What Does a Digital Marketer Do Anyway?
By Lisa Tadje, Director, Marketing & Communications, Rakuten MediaForge There you are at the holiday ...
Give Your Pages Some Headroom
by Pete Prestipino
Give Your Pages Some Headroom
The use of fixed headers, which stay static as a user scrolls down a page, is currently a popular approach to ...
Smarter Digital Marketing for Franchises
by Pete Prestipino
Smarter Digital Marketing for Franchises
Email marketing service StreamSend has announced a service that provides the ability to market and deliver ...
Top 6 Tech Trends for 2014
by Alexis Caffrey
Top 6 Tech Trends for 2014
:: By Alexis Caffrey, @alexiscaffrey :: 2013 is ending and predictions are already flying about where the ...
SMB Plans for the New Year
by Amberly Dressler
SMB Plans for the New Year
Flexible work policies, casual attire, free meals and pet-friendly - sounds like today's small- and ...
Five Fun Facts about Cyber Five" 2013 "
by Peter Devereaux
Five Fun Facts about Cyber Five
By: Ralph Dangelmaier, BlueSnap Five Fun Facts about Cyber Five 2013 (the five consecutive online shopping ...
50 Top Digital Solutions Built to Impress
by Peter Devereaux
50 Top Digital Solutions Built to Impress
When your digital enterprise was engaged in website planning for 2013, did you make the right choices? Did ...
The Web's Best - Keep Calm, Keep Up
by Peter Devereaux
The Web's Best - Keep Calm, Keep Up
The Web's best probably looked a lot like your digital enterprise at one time or another - doing whatever it ...
Take C.A.R.E. When Marketing to Modern Moms
by Peter Devereaux
Take C.A.R.E. When Marketing to Modern Moms
Marketers love moms, and for good reason. Research indicates that women are responsible for 85 percent of ...
STAT WATCH: The State of the U.S. Startup
by Peter Devereaux
STAT WATCH: The State of the U.S. Startup
By most accounts, the dust from the Great Recession (officially spanning 2007-2009) has settled. Businesses ...
2014 Resolutions for 'Net Professionals
by Peter Devereaux
2014 Resolutions for 'Net Professionals
A year of possibility is on the horizon and the savviest 'Net professionals are those strategizing now, ...
Essential Tools for the Starter Executive
by Michelle Wicmandy
Essential Tools for the Starter Executive
via Website Magazine's Software Everywhere Channel In today's complex business world, executives are ...
Get a VOC Clue! Digital Tools for Understanding Online Visitors
by Tim Ash
Get a VOC Clue! Digital Tools for Understanding Online Visitors
A lot of lip service is paid to the idea of "voice of customer" or VOC. In the daily reality of online ...
Net Briefs - Winter '13
by Peter Devereaux
Net Briefs - Winter '13
Each month in Website Magazine's print edition, our editors profile some of the most newsworthy events that ...
Marketing to the 5 Mom Types"
by Amberly Dressler
Marketing to the 5 Mom Types
PunchTab recently looked into the behaviors and psychographics among mothers online and identified common ...
Everybody in the Treehouse
by Pete Prestipino
Everybody in the Treehouse
One of the reasons video has been slow in terms of brand uptake is because it's not as interactive as other ...
Weather-Based Triggers for Every Business
by Peter Devereaux
Weather-Based Triggers for Every Business
Anyone with a window or a social media account, for that matter, is aware of their local weather - whether ...
The Digital Professional's Acronym Guide
by Allison Howen
The Digital Professional's Acronym Guide
No one said it would be easy being a Web professional, but silly things like acronyms shouldn't make your ...
Editor's Pick: 10 Solutions that Impressed Us {And Are Sure to Impress You}
by Peter Devereaux
Editor's Pick: 10 Solutions that Impressed Us {And Are Sure to Impress You}
There aren't many Web services that really impress the editors of Website Magazine. We're privy to many ...
Inside Look at iAcquire: Meet the New Digital Agency
by Amberly Dressler
Inside Look at iAcquire: Meet the New Digital Agency
Business success may not be measured in square footage, but a look at iAcquire's ever-growing office space is ...
Thanksgiving Online 2013: How to Keep Black Friday in the Black
by Peter Devereaux
Thanksgiving Online 2013: How to Keep Black Friday in the Black
: By Atchison Frazer, KEMP Technologies : Black Friday, a term, believed to have first been used in the ...
Finding the User Experience
by Joe Martin
Finding the User Experience
Back when the term UX first hit the Web design community as the latest "buzzword", designers and developers ...
The Golden Rule of Meta Descriptions
by Pete Prestipino
The Golden Rule of Meta Descriptions
Meta tag descriptions have long played a significant role in the optimization of websites for search engine ...
Using Giveaways to Generate Signups and Follows
by Pete Prestipino
Using Giveaways to Generate Signups and Follows
If you've read anything about email marketing, you know the hardest part isn't hitting send, it's getting ...
Just How BIG is the Web?
by Pete Prestipino
Just How BIG is the Web?
Are you ready for some big numbers? Well how about this: There are more than 150 billion searchable indexed ...
Google Play Services Get Serious
by Pete Prestipino
Google Play Services Get Serious
It may have flown under the digital radar of developers, but Google has unveiled a new release of its Play ...
Small Business Saturday Gets a Community Twist
by Allison Howen
Small Business Saturday Gets a Community Twist
The holidays are drawing near as we make our way through November. And while most retailers are preparing ...
Getting the Most from Google's Ghost Town
by Peter Devereaux
Getting the Most from Google's Ghost Town
Google+ Hangouts One of the features that sets Google+ apart from other social networks is its 'Hangout' ...
Inside Gmail Tabs
by Peter Devereaux
Inside Gmail Tabs
- By Chad White, ExactTarget, a Salesforce.com Company -
jQuery to Melt Your Mind
by Peter Devereaux
jQuery to Melt Your Mind
See These Mind-Melting jQuery Plugins In Action :: Progression.js Forms are tricky to design and can be ...
The Anatomy of a Successful Sale at Flippa
by Peter Devereaux
The Anatomy of a Successful Sale at Flippa
When the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) arrive on the Web in the next few months, what are you going ...
Net Briefs - December '13
by Peter Devereaux
Net Briefs - December '13
"G-Commerce"Intentions Google is making available Product Listing Ads (PLAs) for local businesses - and ...
Stat Wrap @ Website Magazine
by Peter Devereaux
Stat Wrap @ Website Magazine
2013 is ending and it's safe to say that this was the year where consumer shopping, research and social ...
Top 50 Performance & Lead Gen Networks
by Peter Devereaux
Top 50 Performance & Lead Gen Networks
Performance marketing is a fast paced and exciting industry, one with all the digital thrills and spills ...
Strategy, Structure and Support: The Three S's of Website Success
by Peter Devereaux
Strategy, Structure and Support: The Three S's of Website Success
By Redickaa Subramanian, CEO of Interakt Digital Communications Group Companies can no longer afford to treat ...
Hiring a Digital Consultant
by Peter Devereaux
Hiring a Digital Consultant
There comes a moment in every small business owner's virtual life, when he or she asks, is it time to hire a ...
Inbound B2B Marketing & the Relevancy Gap
by Alit Bar Sadeh
Inbound B2B Marketing & the Relevancy Gap
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by Peter Devereaux
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: Interesting Stats & Metrics from the Digital World : To develop Web strategies that will actually work ...
Commentary: From Couch to Web Success
by Peter Devereaux
Commentary: From Couch to Web Success
: The Importance of Proper Training : For the past two months, I've been getting ready to participate in a ...
Microsite Experience Strategies
by Peter Devereaux
Microsite Experience Strategies
When it comes to website success, the bigger the site and the more detailed the information provided to ...
Driving Web Traffic
by Peter Devereaux
Driving Web Traffic
Are you on the Road to Web Success? You've spent weeks, maybe even months, optimizing your website to provide ...
4 Ways to Bring the Store Shelf to the Product Page
by Peter Devereaux
4 Ways to Bring the Store Shelf to the Product Page
Since the genesis of ecommerce, merchants have been trying to bridge the gap between online and traditional ...
The Five Myths of Lead Generation
by Peter Devereaux
The Five Myths of Lead Generation
By Jeffrey Cody, Senior Marketing Manager, Campaigner® Myths, folk tales and urban legends make for ...
CVS iPad App Gives Shoppers a Virtual Storefront Experience
by Michael Garrity
CVS iPad App Gives Shoppers a Virtual Storefront Experience
Earlier this week, CVS launched an innovative new iPad application for online shoppers that provides them ...
The Hardest-Working Staff Pages on the Web
by Peter Devereaux
The Hardest-Working Staff Pages on the Web
Every digital enterprise has a team - from one-man shows with makeshift offices to globally staffed companies ...
Monitor App Performance with New Relic for Mobile
by Allison Howen
Monitor App Performance with New Relic for Mobile
If you don't want to wait for user reviews to find out how your app is performing, consider leveraging the ...
The Web Professional's Productivity Toolbox
by Peter Devereaux
The Web Professional's Productivity Toolbox
More often than not, there just aren't enough hours in the day to complete all of the tasks on your to-do ...
Persona-Driven Data In Focus
by Peter Devereaux
Persona-Driven Data In Focus
As part of their upcoming webinar hosted in partnership with Experian Marketing Services, we had the chance ...
Spring Cleaning: Tips For Your Website
by Kristin Tarr
Spring Cleaning: Tips For Your Website
With Spring just around the corner, people are beginning to focus on what they need to clean out and ...
3 Unique Use Cases for Authorship Markup
by Peter Devereaux
3 Unique Use Cases for Authorship Markup
Web professionals immediately embraced Google authorship markup when it was unveiled in 2011. In case you're ...
Get In Front of Google PLAs
by Amberly Dressler
Get In Front of Google PLAs
Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs) continue to generate nearly 1.5 times the click-through rate (CTR) of ...
Ad Strategy in 2013 (and Beyond)
by Peter Devereaux
Ad Strategy in 2013 (and Beyond)
By Jeremy Bloom, Co-Founder of Integrate The technology advancements of 2011 and 2012 will drive the platform ...
Is BYOD the Problem?
by Peter Devereaux
Is BYOD the Problem?
By Simon Bain, Founder and CTO, Simplexo There is a great deal of talk about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and ...
Growing Your Digital Garden -
by Peter Devereaux
Growing Your Digital Garden -
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex ...
5 Everyday Navigation Techniques to Master
by Peter Devereaux
5 Everyday Navigation Techniques to Master
One of the most effective ways for Web designers to help meet a company's goals and achieve the digital ...
Digital Agency Matchmaking
by Peter Devereaux
Digital Agency Matchmaking
When and how to start the process By Lisa Barone, VP of Strategy at Overit Media I work on the agency side of ...
Helpless - Keyword Not Provided
by Peter Devereaux
Helpless - Keyword Not Provided
If you're dealing with the growing Keyword Not Provided problem, you're working in the dark In late 2011, ...
Semantic Markup for Products
by Peter Devereaux
Semantic Markup for Products
Looking for Information on Schema Markup for Merchants/Internet Retailers/Ecommerce Merchants? Read An ...
jQuery to the Rescue!
by Peter Devereaux
jQuery to the Rescue!
Registration forms are the gateway to conversions and ultimately profits. They are a way to collect valuable ...
Semantic Markup Crash Course
by Peter Devereaux
Semantic Markup Crash Course
One of the SEO failures many enterprises make today is not taking advantage of semantic markup - the code ...
Website Acquisition for Income Generation
by Peter Devereaux
Website Acquisition for Income Generation
By Ken Courtright, Today's Growth Consultant The economy hit people hard and many are looking for a better, ...
Receive Alerts on SSL Certification Expiration
by Pete Prestipino
Receive Alerts on SSL Certification Expiration
Remote application monitoring tool Stackify this week released CertAlert.me, a free service to monitor ...
Semantic Markup for Testimonials
by Peter Devereaux
Semantic Markup for Testimonials
Testimonials can provide your Web pages just the boost they need to differentiate themselves on the search ...
The Web's Guiding Light
by Peter Devereaux
The Web's Guiding Light
There's a lack of information on how big brands secure their position in the digital world. Despite the black ...
Semantic Markup for Video
by Peter Devereaux
Semantic Markup for Video
Schema markup for videos is actually much different than other markup such as that for events or people. ...
Green Day Comes Around With PunchTab
by Amberly Dressler
Green Day Comes Around With PunchTab
Brands like Arby's, eBay and the band Green Day understand the importance of increasing consumer engagement ...
White House Gift Shop Moves Online, Offers Tips
by Tony Giannini
White House Gift Shop Moves Online, Offers Tips
For years, The White House Gift Shop operated in the basement of the Old Executive Office Building within the ...
Bing Accommodates Webmasters with Sitemap Plugin
by Michael Garrity
Bing Accommodates Webmasters with Sitemap Plugin
Last week was a big one for Bing. The Mircosoft-owned search engine announced a substantial update that ...
Taking Security to the Next Level
by Kelly Meeneghan
Taking Security to the Next Level
:: By Kelly Meeneghan, 1&1 Internet With such a heavy reliance on the Internet, online security should be ...
Slideshare's Send Tracker Provides Feedback Loop
by Pete Prestipino
Slideshare's Send Tracker Provides Feedback Loop
Content and presentation sharing site Slideshare, a LinkedIn owned company (covered extensively at Website ...
Does Follower Score Matter?
by Allison Howen
Does Follower Score Matter?
One of the best ways to gain digital popularity is by marketing your brand on social networks like Twitter. ...
Defeating Digital Writer's Block
by Pete Prestipino
Defeating Digital Writer's Block
Anyone who writes or develops content has been there before - at your desk staring at a blank screen and ...
Five Tips for First-Time Website Owners
by Peter Devereaux
Five Tips for First-Time Website Owners
It's no secret the Web continues to explode as a resource for consumers and businesses, and Web traffic is ...
Freelance Web Professionals Earned Big in 2012
by Michael Garrity
Freelance Web Professionals Earned Big in 2012
The Internet has changed the way we do a lot of things, and now it seems to even be altering the way we find ...
New Metrics, Data Points for Digital Business
by Peter Devereaux
New Metrics, Data Points for Digital Business
The new year not only brings new technologies and trends to the 'Net, but also new ways to measure success. ...
2013 Help Desk Comparison Chart
by Amberly Dressler
2013 Help Desk Comparison Chart
From supporting customer accounts with a limited staff to better understanding customers because of ticket ...
The Low-Down on Real-Time Bidding
by Peter Devereaux
The Low-Down on Real-Time Bidding
Time is money - a cliché that rings very true in the realm of digital advertising today. As ...
Disruptive By Nature - Commentary
by Peter Devereaux
Disruptive By Nature - Commentary
Are you engaged in a disruptive business behavior? Are you following the status quo, mirroring the practices ...
Marketing Science: Metrics for the Digital Experience Age
by Peter Devereaux
Marketing Science: Metrics for the Digital Experience Age
The practice of measuring the digital experience is complicated and fraught with poor and misguided planning, ...
What Online Shoppers Want
by Peter Devereaux
What Online Shoppers Want
Three Ways to Keep Consumers Satisfied Customer satisfaction has a direct impact on a business's immediate ...
FOUND: User Acquisition Strategies
by Peter Devereaux
FOUND: User Acquisition Strategies
As someone responsible for the success of your website, you know what you need - you just need to go get it, ...
Discussing the Differences: Disqus vs. IntenseDebate
by Michael Garrity
Discussing the Differences: Disqus vs. IntenseDebate
Everybody loves to share their opinions on the Internet, and a guaranteed way to ensure your success as an ...
The State of Paid Inclusion
by Peter Devereaux
The State of Paid Inclusion
Keeping paid and earned media separate is challenging for marketers, advertisers and search engines, but a ...
Keyword Relevancy Matters
by Pete Prestipino
Keyword Relevancy Matters
Search engines analyze several on-page elements to determine ranking, including the contextual nature of the ...
5 Ways to Win the Digital Asset Management Super Bowl
by Peter Devereaux
5 Ways to Win the Digital Asset Management Super Bowl
Ask any football team - getting to the Super Bowl takes focused teamwork. It isn't simply the result of ...
Digital Marketing's Remix
by Peter Devereaux
Digital Marketing's Remix
By Mark Simmons, Managing Partner, Founder of Mixed Digital Digital marketing success can be a moving target. ...
5 Ways to Get a Better, Faster, Stronger Website
by Peter Devereaux
5 Ways to Get a Better, Faster, Stronger Website
By Kristin Tarr, CloudFlare Communications Manager Website visitors are demanding a lot from online ...
Google Dominates 90 Percent of B2B Space
by Peter Devereaux
Google Dominates 90 Percent of B2B Space
From search engine marketing (SEM) and search engine optimization (SEO) to social media and email, Web ...
White House Gift Shop, a Sign of the Times
by Amberly Dressler
White House Gift Shop, a Sign of the Times
What role does Volusion, an ecommerce software and shopping cart solutions provider, play in President Barack ...
Conversational Marketing Requires Big Data
by Pete Prestipino
Conversational Marketing Requires Big Data
There is more pressure than ever for digital marketing departments to measure performance and optimize the ...
Generating Income from Membership Websites
by Pete Prestipino
Generating Income from Membership Websites
The concept is simple and the benefits can be huge, but membership websites demand hard work. Today's Web ...
Klout Obsessed
by Pete Prestipino
Klout Obsessed
Over the past few weeks, I have been obsessed with Klout. No, not clout, but Klout - the Web-based ...
The Psychology of Motivation
by Pete Prestipino
The Psychology of Motivation
Understanding users' internal motivations is as important to marketers as providing external incentives The ...
Niche Sites Do Deals Right
by Pete Prestipino
Niche Sites Do Deals Right
Whether or not the online group-buying trend maintains long-term success is still up in the air. But, one way ...
Retargeting Tips for Power Marketers
by Pete Prestipino
Retargeting Tips for Power Marketers
Contrary to popular Web marketing belief, first impressions are not always everything. Just ask any marketer ...
Marketing to the Modern Woman
by Peter Devereaux
Marketing to the Modern Woman
Contrary to popular opinion, the ladies aren't just sugar and spice and everything nice. The modern woman is ...
Learn the Jargon to Dominate Deliverability
by Peter Devereaux
Learn the Jargon to Dominate Deliverability
It's not uncommon for Web businesses professionals to be overwhelmed by jargon used in the industry in which ...
Crowdsourcing & the Future of Work
by Peter Devereaux
Crowdsourcing & the Future of Work
Getting things done does not have to be difficult - at least not if you're familiar with and confident in ...
Apache Hadoop In Focus
by Peter Devereaux
Apache Hadoop In Focus
Lately, Apache Hadoop has entered the lexicon of Web professionals thanks to the big data explosion. But ...
The Emerging Chief Digital Officer
by Peter Devereaux
The Emerging Chief Digital Officer
Who is Responsible for the Digital Consumer Experience? Digital marketing has become the primary marketing ...
EU Privacy Directives
by Peter Devereaux
EU Privacy Directives
4 Ways to Stay Ahead (and Out of Trouble) In May of 2011, the European Union (EU) adopted a set of privacy ...
The Glorious World of Event Tracking
by Peter Devereaux
The Glorious World of Event Tracking
The Web enables marketers to track everything - from tracking website traffic to the actual completion of a ...
Why You Need OaaS (Office as a Service)
by Peter Devereaux
Why You Need OaaS (Office as a Service)
You're the CEO of a Manhattan based security firm with 75 employees on staff situated in New York City, Miami ...
The Flash to HTML5 Evolution
by Peter Devereaux
The Flash to HTML5 Evolution
HTML5 is a long overdue evolution of the Hypertext Markup Language. Hypertext, as a technology, has served as ...
Getting Started with Database-Enabled Websites
by Daniel D. Gutierrez
Getting Started with Database-Enabled Websites
The flow and pace of information and, more importantly, the knowledge within an organization, related to ...
Benefits Of A Website Preference Center
by Peter Devereaux
Benefits Of A Website Preference Center
There are many elements to consider when designing a website to market your business, products or services. ...
Start Over as a Startup
by Peter Devereaux
Start Over as a Startup
Facebook had it; so did Groupon. Most startups do. It's the X factor, a quality you can't quite put your ...
The "Superfan" Experiment
by Peter Devereaux
The
Social media is not a popularity contest so companies shouldn't gauge success on fan and follower numbers - ...
Measuring the Right Metrics for Web Performance Monitoring
by Aaron Rudger
Measuring the Right Metrics for Web Performance Monitoring
Compelling content, reliability and performance lend themselves to an excellent overall user experience and ...
10 Back-End Mods for an Optimized Front-End Experience
by Peter Devereaux
10 Back-End Mods for an Optimized Front-End Experience
Plenty is written regularly about how to optimize the front-end of your website for the search engines and ...
A Guide to Good Translations
by Peter Devereaux
A Guide to Good Translations
As the Internet becomes fully engrained in all aspects of people's lives, the race to meet the demands of, ...
Captivating Readers While Attracting Web Crawlers
by Peter Devereaux
Captivating Readers While Attracting Web Crawlers
Today's digital writer has two audiences: readers and Web crawlers. Unfortunately, the two have distinct ...
OPTIMIZE EVERYTHING
by Peter Devereaux
OPTIMIZE EVERYTHING
As members of the digital community, we are driven (some would say compelled) to achieve ever better results ...
Budgeting for Success (Commentary)
by Peter Devereaux
Budgeting for Success (Commentary)
Budgeting for the New Year can be exciting - especially in the digital realm. But regardless of what type of ...
Digital New Year's Resolutions for Web Workers
by Pete Prestipino
Digital New Year's Resolutions for Web Workers
Resolutions are all about action - pushing ourselves to achieve ever greater results in our personal, and ...
Pinterest Contests Come to Wishpond
by Allison Howen
Pinterest Contests Come to Wishpond
Interacting with fans through social media helps merchants foster relationships with their customers, and a ...
10 Ways to Optimize for Lead Generation
by Peter Devereaux
10 Ways to Optimize for Lead Generation
Lead generation, whether your digital enterprise is the largest or smallest in the virtual world, is a topic ...
The Two Most Common Personalization Myths
by Peter Devereaux
The Two Most Common Personalization Myths
How Web Pioneers are Redefining the Customer Experience Online By Mark Simpson, Founder and President, ...
Conversion via Usability
by Peter Devereaux
Conversion via Usability
There are many aspects of an ecommerce website that can have a dramatic impact on conversion; however, none ...
Do You Parallax?
by Peter Devereaux
Do You Parallax?
By the time you read this, there will be some new, bleeding edge, blow-yourmind type design trend that you'll ...
Elements of Premier Websites
by Peter Devereaux
Elements of Premier Websites
There's certainly no shortage of websites today - Netcraft's September 2012 Web Server Survey ...
Brands Learning from Brands
by Peter Devereaux
Brands Learning from Brands
From analytics to Web design, Website Magazine prides itself in providing a holistic approach to Web success. ...
Delivering Complex Data That Sticks
by Peter Devereaux
Delivering Complex Data That Sticks
Through Story and Visual Elements Web analytics, social media data and email metrics are flooding businesses ...
Replatforming: Finishing On Time & On Budget
by Peter Devereaux
Replatforming: Finishing On Time & On Budget
As you read this, most ecommerce retailers are making their largest profits of the year. Their ecommerce ...
Pin It to Win It
by Peter Devereaux
Pin It to Win It
Practical Social Selling & Marketing Strategies for Pinterest-Focused Internet Retailers To influence ...
Inside the Digital Store
by Peter Devereaux
Inside the Digital Store
Thanks to an innovative new ecommerce solution, merchants are opening their eyes to what is really going on ...
Best of the Web In Focus
by Peter Devereaux
Best of the Web In Focus
No Web worker sets off down the virtual road to digital success with the expectation that their Internet ...
Strategies to Avoid a Knowledge Graph-tastrophe
by Peter Devereaux
Strategies to Avoid a Knowledge Graph-tastrophe
The search experience at Google has changed dramatically over the past few years. While the factors used ...
Regain Your Digital Mojo (Commentary)
by Peter Devereaux
Regain Your Digital Mojo (Commentary)
How long have you been a Web worker? I'm moving into my 14th year as a professional in the new media and ...
Getting Started with a CDN
by Peter Devereaux
Getting Started with a CDN
The way most end-users find and experience content today starts and ends on the Web (mobile or otherwise). ...
User-Generated Photo Galleries on Display
by Allison Howen
User-Generated Photo Galleries on Display
It is no secret that visual content, such as images and videos, help increase engagement rates on websites. ...
Tumblr Tumbles into Top U.S. Sites
by Allison Howen
Tumblr Tumbles into Top U.S. Sites
Tumblr isn't just for teens anymore. In fact, Tumblr recently announced in a blog post that an audience of ...
What Small Biz Can Learn from Big Biz
by Amberly Dressler
What Small Biz Can Learn from Big Biz
And how big businesses learned from them. Sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is Small Business ...
Cyber Week Deals for Web Workers
by Pete Prestipino
Cyber Week Deals for Web Workers
It's not just the average consumer that benefits from all the sales and deals happening around Black Friday ...
On-the-Go Businesses Get Payments App
by Amberly Dressler
On-the-Go Businesses Get Payments App
From designers, to consultants, to IT professionals and beyond, there are plenty of businesses that operate ...
The Digital Trinity
by Pete Prestipino
The Digital Trinity
There's certainly no shortage of websites today - Netcraft's September 2012 Web Server Survey showed more ...
The Politics of Digital Publishing: Ryan Mannion of Politico
by Peter Devereaux
The Politics of Digital Publishing: Ryan Mannion of Politico
The challenges to those enterprises in the political news publishing vertical are unique - particularly on ...
Types and Tips for Online Security Threats
by Peter Devereaux
Types and Tips for Online Security Threats
By Americaneagle.com Chief Technology Officer, Ryan McElrath There are many common threats against websites ...
Why is the Digital Agency Market's Tail Growing Longer?
by Peter Devereaux
Why is the Digital Agency Market's Tail Growing Longer?
The evolution of digital marketing agencies and the overall online marketing sector is a conversation that ...
Seasonal Trends of Top Marketing Verticals
by Pete Prestipino
Seasonal Trends of Top Marketing Verticals
One of the more challenging hurdles to surmount for digital marketers is simply choosing the right time to ...
Have You Googled Yourself? ORM Solutions to the Rescue
by Peter Devereaux
Have You Googled Yourself? ORM Solutions to the Rescue
Online reputation managment (ORM) is most certainly on the mind of your average Web worker these days - check ...
Preparing Your Website for Expansion in Brazil
by Peter Devereaux
Preparing Your Website for Expansion in Brazil
Brazil is now the world's sixth largest economy, and the country's fast economic growth encourages ...
Expand Your Brand with White Label Solutions: Part 2
by Michael Garrity
Expand Your Brand with White Label Solutions: Part 2
A few months ago, our editorial staff compiled a list of five great white label software solutions that Web ...
Tracking Mobile Campaigns, a Must
by Amberly Dressler
Tracking Mobile Campaigns, a Must
From Gap and Groupon to Toys "R" Us and Ugg Australia, plenty of worldwide names have implemented affiliate ...
Getting Wild with Wireframes
by Pete Prestipino
Getting Wild with Wireframes
While content management systems and shopping cart platforms (and everything in between) have in many ways ...
What is TypeScript?
by Michael Garrity
What is TypeScript?
Have you heard of TypScript, yet? That's Microsoft's new JavaScript-like programming language that the ...
Weekend Warrior: IFTTT Recipes for Total Digital Success
by Allison Howen
Weekend Warrior: IFTTT Recipes for Total Digital Success
Both the best and worst thing about the Internet is the mass proliferation of services that Web professionals ...
Strong Indicators for Web Jobs' Growth
by Amberly Dressler
Strong Indicators for Web Jobs' Growth
Desktop, smartphones and tablets aren't the only digital properties getting a cloud makeover - online ...
Segmenting "Big Data
by Peter Devereaux
Segmenting
Five Customer Behaviors that Deserve Your Attention Now! That Plato character was pretty astute. The ancient ...
Time Management for the Busy Executive
by Peter Devereaux
Time Management for the Busy Executive
For most business professionals, there are never enough hours in a day to get everything done. Many work ...
Virtual Phone Offerings Get a Mighty Makeover
by Amberly Dressler
Virtual Phone Offerings Get a Mighty Makeover
While a website can make a business look more robust than it actually is, virtual phone services can make it ...
Reducing Web Security Vulnerabilities in DJW
by Peter Devereaux
Reducing Web Security Vulnerabilities in DJW
Drupal, Joomla and WordPress (DJW) are among the most popular content management systems used for website ...
Google Tag Manager Released
by Pete Prestipino
Google Tag Manager Released
Google has released Tag Manager, a free tool that replaces the often clunky and extensive number of tags that ...
Game Play: Where Science & Branding Merge
by Peter Devereaux
Game Play: Where Science & Branding Merge
As the case studies accumulate, gamification continues to gain traction and garner attention. Yet despite its ...
Getting Down with Demos
by Peter Devereaux
Getting Down with Demos
Have you ever asked how a certain product works, just to be promptly answered with "Let me show you"? ...
Product Showcase Platforms in Focus
by Peter Devereaux
Product Showcase Platforms in Focus
When it comes to showcasing products on the 'Net, merchants need to think outside of the box. This means that ...
Conversion Conference Fast Approaching
by Amberly Dressler
Conversion Conference Fast Approaching
Learn the latest strategies used by the world's top conversion, usability and testing experts at the upcoming ...
Find Publishers on the Same Wavelength
by Allison Howen
Find Publishers on the Same Wavelength
If you need help finding another newsletter publisher to partner with in order to increase your brand's ...
Measure Like You Target
by Pete Prestipino
Measure Like You Target
Where are all your display ads being shown... and are they being show to the right audience? A new solution ...
Data Scientists Balance the Marketer's Creativity
by Peter Devereaux
Data Scientists Balance the Marketer's Creativity
: by Jeff Zwelling, CEO of Convertro : The season finale of a popular 1960's drama about advertising ...
Expand Your Brand with White Label Solutions
by Allison Howen
Expand Your Brand with White Label Solutions
There are a lot of great new technologies being developed for the Web everyday, and much of it can be used to ...
Elements of a Million Dollar Product Page
by Pete Prestipino
Elements of a Million Dollar Product Page
No aspect of an ecommerce or online retail site is more critical to a business's success than the product ...
5 Key Areas to Test on Your Website
by Peter Devereaux
5 Key Areas to Test on Your Website
There are a lot of elements that you can test and tweak on a website, and depending on what type of site you ...
Learn Hacker Language, Decrease Risk
by Amberly Dressler
Learn Hacker Language, Decrease Risk
In order to fight the battle of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, at-risk businesses need to be ...
The Basics of Writing Web Copy
by Amberly Dressler
The Basics of Writing Web Copy
Whether it's copy for a landing page or a banner ad, writing goal-oriented copy can be a daunting task, even ...
Digital Strategy for This Year's DNC
by Peter Devereaux
Digital Strategy for This Year's DNC
When Business Empire Consulting (BEC), a digital agency specializing in integrated campaigns developed from ...
Get Started with Parallax Scrolling
by Michael Garrity
Get Started with Parallax Scrolling
The strides made in website design since the inception of the Internet are often taken for granted these ...
ABCs of Winning Web Awards
by Peter Devereaux
ABCs of Winning Web Awards
And the winner is... Building a company's virtual trophy case isn't just about company ego. It can help build ...
Exposing PIN to Unauthorized Users
by Pete Prestipino
Exposing PIN to Unauthorized Users
How secure is the personally identifiable information of your customers and website users? According to a new ...
Intro to Community Management
by Peter Devereaux
Intro to Community Management
Website Magazine Special Contributor Matt Goulart, Founder of Ignite Digital What is Community Management? ...
Comparing CSEs - Who's on Top?
by Peter Devereaux
Comparing CSEs - Who's on Top?
The prom king - and queen - for that matter of Comparison Shopping Engines is Google. With the announcement ...
URL by Match Type in adCenter & Yahoo!
by Pete Prestipino
URL by Match Type in adCenter & Yahoo!
Advertisers running search campaigns on Bing and Yahoo have a new feature at their disposal - custom URLs by ...
Five Ways to Incorporate Mobility" in Any Digital Business Today"
by Peter Devereaux
Five Ways to Incorporate Mobility
As ubiquitous as mobile technology seems today, marketers are still in the early days of fully recognizing ...
Box Scores Big in Latest Round of Funding
by Michael Garrity
Box Scores Big in Latest Round of Funding
The cloud computing industry is dominated by a few big names - Amazon, VMware, NetSuite, Salesforce, Dropbox, ...
The Language of the Web
by Pete Prestipino
The Language of the Web
What's the most common language in use on the Web and which carries the most significant economic ...
Join the A-List with Prosperent Celebrity API
by Pete Prestipino
Join the A-List with Prosperent Celebrity API
Performance marketers operating in the affiliate space are continually looking for ways to access new streams ...
ReachMail is Crazy (Like a Fox)
by Pete Prestipino
ReachMail is Crazy (Like a Fox)
Email marketing service provider ReachMail announced it is now offering free lifetime accounts. You didn't ...
Best Quarter Ever for Netsuite
by Pete Prestipino
Best Quarter Ever for Netsuite
Cloud-based financial/ERP software provider NetSuite announced operating results for the second quarter ended ...
Back to Basics: Make the Most of SEM
by Matt Goulart
Back to Basics: Make the Most of SEM
The world of online marketing is constantly in flux, changing and evolving as the technology of the web moves ...
Create an iPad App with DIY Magazine Publishing Platform
by Allison Howen
Create an iPad App with DIY Magazine Publishing Platform
By now we all know how important it is to have a mobile presence, yet this task is still easier said than ...
Break Out of Your Creative Cage
by Michael Garrity
Break Out of Your Creative Cage
One of the really great things about working on the Web is that it can be done from pretty much anywhere, as ...
Fab, TaskRabbit and Mashery Get (MORE) Funding
by Pete Prestipino
Fab, TaskRabbit and Mashery Get (MORE) Funding
It's good to wake on a Monday morning to some fresh and relevant funding news, am I right? Here's what ...
8 Ways to Improve Your Site Over the Weekend
by Michael Garrity
8 Ways to Improve Your Site Over the Weekend
Everybody may be working for the weekend, but if you run a website, you already know that you're almost ...
Funding for Tout'd, Egnyte and Kiip
by Peter Devereaux
Funding for Tout'd, Egnyte and Kiip
Website Magazine is rolling out a number of new channels on our redesigned website, one of which is "Movers ...
Crowdsourcing and the Future of Work
by Peter Devereaux
Crowdsourcing and the Future of Work
Getting things "done" does not have to be difficult - at least not if you're familiar with and confident in ...
Who's Using Hadoop?
by Pete Prestipino
Who's Using Hadoop?
This lack of down-to-Earth, nitty gritty details on how Apache Hadoop works and who uses it may make it seem ...
New Partnerships Extend Tag Management Capabilities
by Michael Garrity
New Partnerships Extend Tag Management Capabilities
Tag management solution provider BrightTag has unveiled a slew of strategic analytics partnerships that ...
Demonstrate Products On The Go
by Allison Howen
Demonstrate Products On The Go
If you are a marketer who needs a better way to give product demonstrations at trade shows or sales meetings, ...
Web Strategy: A Call for Unification
by Olivier Naimi
Web Strategy: A Call for Unification
Today's digital world is inevitably governed by the principles of multi-channel and multi-screen attribution ...
Bing vs Google; Webmaster Tools Comparison
by Peter Devereaux
Bing vs Google; Webmaster Tools Comparison
Both of the Web's top search engines provide marketers and Internet workers with immensely powerful platforms ...
The Color of Conversion
by Peter Devereaux
The Color of Conversion
Utilize the power of colors to achieve maximum Web success "The whole world, as we experience it visually, ...
The Digital Fight Against Fraud
by Peter Devereaux
The Digital Fight Against Fraud
Small and medium-sized businesses are increasingly becoming the targets of "fraudsters", losing revenue as ...
Five Ways to Increase Conversion Rates
by Peter Devereaux
Five Ways to Increase Conversion Rates
Traditional Methods of Raising Online Sales are No Longer Enough In today's ultra-competitive online ...
Lead Scoring Not What it Used to Be
by Peter Devereaux
Lead Scoring Not What it Used to Be
In the land of marketing automation, lead scoring is often approached as the easily overlooked underling. ...
Monitoring Your Scaling Web Business
by Peter Devereaux
Monitoring Your Scaling Web Business
Change is a constant in today's increasingly complex IT environment. There are internal and external demands ...
Sitemap Submission Primer
by Peter Devereaux
Sitemap Submission Primer
You might be surprised how little the world of Web workers actually know about sitemaps. If you've spent any ...
A Three-Legged Race to Faster Websites
by Peter Devereaux
A Three-Legged Race to Faster Websites
CDNs + FEO + OCA = Web Performance Optimization (WPO) Today's Internet offers a wealth of dynamic content - ...
Five Tips for Power Pinners
by Peter Devereaux
Five Tips for Power Pinners
Pinterest has taken the social media world by storm, but it's been less than a year since the destination ...
Trust is (Severely) Lacking on the Web
by Pete Prestipino
Trust is (Severely) Lacking on the Web
Trust is the sole building block upon which the hope of conversion rests. Too often however, information ...
Summer Web Traffic Trends
by Pete Prestipino
Summer Web Traffic Trends
What type of Web traffic trends in the mid and late summer months? Knowing what users are searching for at ...
Making Gamification a Reality
by Pete Prestipino
Making Gamification a Reality
The gamification trend, which brings game mechanics into the real world, took another big step forward ...
Create an iOS-Ready Site with This New Tool
by Michael Garrity
Create an iOS-Ready Site with This New Tool
International domain name registrar and cloud hosting provider Gandi wants to help you be iOS-ready with its ...
Master the Web at the Velocity Conference
by Allison Howen
Master the Web at the Velocity Conference
If you are looking to become a Web guru by mastering an array of Web performance, operation and mobile ...
hybris Launches New Online Marketplace
by Linc Wonham
hybris Launches New Online Marketplace
Multichannel commerce software provider hybris has launched a new online marketplace designed to give ...
Manage Product Data with Open Catalog Service
by Linc Wonham
Manage Product Data with Open Catalog Service
SPS Commerce is offering an upgrade to its Universal Catalog service, which is a cloud-based solution that ...
Big Data Management Producing Big Returns
by Linc Wonham
Big Data Management Producing Big Returns
"Big Data" has been one of the biggest buzzwords in the online business world the past few years, but just ...
The U.K. Cracks Down on Cookies
by Allison Howen
The U.K. Cracks Down on Cookies
The U.K.'s cookie law, which requires website owners to ask permission before installing certain types of ...
Marketing Automation in the Digital Enterprise
by Pete Prestipino
Marketing Automation in the Digital Enterprise
With all of its promise, marketing automation is still an enigma for some enterprise companies. While the ...
New-look Bit.ly Adds Curation Features
by Michael Garrity
New-look Bit.ly Adds Curation Features
Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly has undergone a redesign that includes the release of a handful of new ...
User Satisfaction Scores Reveal Web Application Performance
by Michael Garrity
User Satisfaction Scores Reveal Web Application Performance
Real-time IT management company ManageEngine is releasing a slew of new enhanced monitoring features for its ...
Are You Ready for World IPv6 Day?
by Michael Garrity
Are You Ready for World IPv6 Day?
June 6 marks World IPv6 Day, where many Web companies from around the globe will officially enable Internet ...
Reduce Tax Rate Headaches with GoPayment
by Allison Howen
Reduce Tax Rate Headaches with GoPayment
Merchants on the go can now solely focus on making sales instead of searching for local tax rates. Business ...
New SmartAgent Feature Has All the Answers
by Allison Howen
New SmartAgent Feature Has All the Answers
A new feature of UpSellit's SmartAgent platform is designed to help merchants reduce their site's abandonment ...
Gain Better Access to IP Geolocation Data
by Michael Garrity
Gain Better Access to IP Geolocation Data
Geolocation and IP intelligence technology provider Digital Element has released its new NetAcuity ...
Increase ROI with a Tag Management System
by Michael Garrity
Increase ROI with a Tag Management System
In a Web world where a lot of data is created and shared every second of the day, being able to manage all of ...
Tech M&A Activity Will Heat Up This Summer
by Linc Wonham
Tech M&A Activity Will Heat Up This Summer
In the aftermath of Facebook's /subscribe/", the M&A Leaders Survey polled some 300 professionals within ...
Genome Maps Out Targeted Data for Advertisers
by Michael Garrity
Genome Maps Out Targeted Data for Advertisers
Late last year, Yahoo purchased ad targeting and optimization software provider Interclick with hopes to ...
Tumblr Reaching Out with Chat Widget
by Michael Garrity
Tumblr Reaching Out with Chat Widget
It just got easier to communicate with users on the Tumblr microblogging platform, thanks to a new ...
Groupon Launches New Loyalty Program
by Allison Howen
Groupon Launches New Loyalty Program
Groupon is on the search for loyal customers. The once-upon-a-time daily deals giant has launched Groupon ...
Calling All Entries for the WebAwards
by Allison Howen
Calling All Entries for the WebAwards
Do you think yours is the best site on the Web? Prove it by entering the Web Marketing Association's 16th ...
Track What's Being Pinned
by Pete Prestipino
Track What's Being Pinned
Many digital media professionals, myself included, expect that Pinterest's days as the darling of the social ...
IT Budgets Rise 15 Percent for SMBs
by Pete Prestipino
IT Budgets Rise 15 Percent for SMBs
Spiceworks, a social network for the IT community and a provider of a provider of IT management software, has ...
Monetization Tools for B2B websites
by Pete Prestipino
Monetization Tools for B2B websites
Rev Response - a publisher network focusing on the digital B2B community which is part of NetLine - has ...
Bring Out the GIMP - Image Editing Program
by Pete Prestipino
Bring Out the GIMP - Image Editing Program
Popular image editing software software GIMP (the GNU Image Manipulation Program) have finally released ...
Mother's Day Marketing Tips for Merchants
by Allison Howen
Mother's Day Marketing Tips for Merchants
The mother of all holidays is quickly approaching, which means that merchants should be focusing their ...
HR Tool Ranks Job Candidates
by Allison Howen
HR Tool Ranks Job Candidates
There is a new tool on the Web that will help hiring managers find the perfect candidate for open positions - ...
Expand Brand Reach With New PR Distribution Tools
by Allison Howen
Expand Brand Reach With New PR Distribution Tools
PRWeb has launched three new distribution enhancements that will help its clients increase their visibility ...
Marketers: Make Way for MightyMeeting
by Michael Garrity
Marketers: Make Way for MightyMeeting
Thanks to modern technology, professionals can conduct meetings and collaborate from seemingly anywhere. ...
Examining Affluent Males' Web Preferences & Behaviors
by Pete Prestipino
Examining Affluent Males' Web Preferences & Behaviors
Knowing your audience is one of the fundamentals of success in digital marketing - or any marketing, for that ...
The Power of HTML5
by Linc Wonham
The Power of HTML5
According to Usablenet, the inclusion of just a few HTML5-enabled interactive elements to a mobile website ...
More about HTML5 and Multilingual Websites
by Linc Wonham
More about HTML5 and Multilingual Websites
Below are some more ways in which to utilize HTML5 to enhance your multilingual websites: Ruby annotations ...
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