Yearly Archives: 2008

Web Hosting Monterey Bay

  Choosing your web hosting provider in Monterey Bay California is easy when you know what’s important.  Looking for a green hosting solution? Did you know… 3-4% of ALL electricity is running data centers? A single server can impact the climate as much as one 15 MPG SUV? Servers require a LOT of electricity to […]

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Monterey Businesses: Are You Using Your Web Site?

Small businesses can easily use their web sites to convert shoppers into buyers.  Who are your best customers? Your best customers are the ones you already have.  Have your web address on everything possible: brochures, cards, coupons…and don’t stop there.  Tell the reader to register on your web site for the newsletter.  tell them by […]

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Are You Supporting Local Business?

NikaBleu Marketing is 100% behind local businesses.  In fact, everyone I know who lives in the Monterey Bay says the same thing. But what do we do?  Buy groceries at Troia’s Market or Monte Vista Market, or opt for Safeway?  Order iTunes online…or stop by Do Re Mi in Carmel? The competition is fierce.  There […]

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110 SEO Basics

  Use these Monterey SEO basics to rank higher and quicker: Content is king.  Provide quality, relevant content (seeing a trend here?). A master plan.  What is it you want optimized?  Hopefully, you want to be a resource for information, products, subscriptions, etc.  You want to build links with respected sites in your field or […]

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How To Dial A Human Being

Dial A Human.  What a concept.  It stayed in my mind after trying to reach an employee at the Monterey Aquarium:    It went something like "Thank you for calling the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  Para Espanol, a-lot-of-Spanish-words-‘uno’.  If you want to talk to someone at the Aquarium and you know their name, press 2 to […]

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9 Free Analytics Tools

It’s time to dig into your pages and see how they function after you set them free into the world wide web…when optimizing a page, like I did for Monterey SEO, you then need to measure the traffic it ‘drives’.  Traffic is made of people, and I am always inclined to mention it because you […]

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5 Claims That Give SEO a Bad Name

SEO work, when done right…DOES work.  The internet gives even a small business the opportunity to interact with thousands of people.  Each day! Marketers know this, and online marketers know it better.  You can, with a focused approach, build a web site that attracts visitors by simply giving them the answers they want.  In a […]

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1Internal Linking Power Tips

When linking, don’t underestimate you own internal links; first and foremost the goal is a satisfied visitor.  And a page with a good navigation system that helps robots index content and deliver relevant query results and helps the user find what they want is the best of both worlds. First, common sense:  have you ever […]

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