Do you have a website or blog post that desperately needs more Facebook Likes, Twitter Retweets, Stumbles, etc? Here are a few helpful suggestions...
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YellowWebMonkey Web Design
A collage of tutorials, web design, marketing, and search engine optimization.
Alexis M. Marks
Alexis moved to Waco in 2008 after completing five years in the United States Army as a military police officer. Web design was a hobby that grew into a passion while she was in the military. She is the founder of ArmyToolbag.com, a reference website for Army personnel that averages over 25,000 unique visitors a month. When she sold that website to a national marketing firm, she decided to venture out and start YellowWebMonkey Web Design in 2009. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Computer Science Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY.
How to Get More LIKE's and other Social Cred for your Link
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Monday, 08 August 2011
in Marketing
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Original Social Media Videos by YellowWebMonkey
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Thursday, 04 August 2011
in Video Blogs
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Below are three videos made this week by the YellowWebMonkey team. Please share your favorite video on your Facebook or Twitter.
Tags: eCommerce, humor, online shopping, satire, social media, video, xtranormal, youTube
How to Write a List Blog
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Tuesday, 26 July 2011
in List Blogs
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Probably the most common type of blog out there is the "List Blog." Some examples would be "5 New Things to do with...." or a "Top 10 Things that...."
Determining Your Company's Identity with Magnetic Poetry
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Friday, 15 July 2011
in Marketing
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Before venturing into branding, marketing, or social media, you need to figure out some things about your business. The whole point of all those things is to spread the word about you, but if you don’t know what word to spread, you are probably wasting time and money. Since I am a visual person, I put together a little “magnetic poetry” type action for you to play around with.
How to Write an Instructional Blog: New Battle of the Interns
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Tuesday, 12 July 2011
in Instructional Blogs
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This week it is Intern Brett vs. Intern Scout as they create an instructional blog. Read on to learn more about instructional blogs. Then watch for our next Intern posts and vote for your favorite.
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How to Build a Joomla Site on Network Solutions (if you must)
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Friday, 01 April 2011
in Tutorials
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Overall, my suggestion would be to never bother with Network Solutions because there are too many other good hosting companies. However, if you MUST, then this is what I have figured out...
Tags: .htaccess, hosting, Joomla, Network Solutions, phpMyAdmin, SEF Links
Register Your Domain/Hosting
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Saturday, 26 March 2011
in Tutorials
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One of the BIGGEST mistakes people make in a website, is not registering the domain name and the hosting in their name. The domain name is the address for your site, for example, YellowWebMonkey.com. The hosting is the server space where the website files are kept, kind of like your rental space on the web.
YouTube Tutorial
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Friday, 25 June 2010
in Tutorials
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This is a step by step tutorial on setting up a new YouTube account, adjusting your profile and personal settings, uploading a video, and linking your YouTube Account with Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader and Orkut.
Tags: account settings, linking, social media, tutorial, youTube
Creating a Facebook Fan Page: Step by Step
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Wednesday, 31 March 2010
in Marketing
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1. Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
2. Select your type of business under LOCAL dropdown.
Tags: Facebook, fan page, marketing, small business, social media, tutorial
Weird Ways to Improve Traffic to Your Website
Posted by Alexis M. Marks
on Saturday, 09 January 2010
in SEO
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Just about every website owner wants to get more traffic to their site. You might hire a SEO company to “optimize” your site or you might spend money on advertising, whether its pay-per-click (PPC) or other mediums. Like many others, I routinely look at my Google Analytics to see how these things affect my traffic, hoping for that upward trend line that lets me feel like my website is doing something for my business (umm, especially since my business is web design).
A little while back I saw this huge spike in traffic. From one day to the next, my traffic went up 500% and sustained at that level for two weeks. What was it that brought all these glorious new people to the land of YellowWebMonkey Web Design? It was a CraigsList ad I had posted, looking to hire some part-time data entry help to finish a backlog of projects.
That peak got me thinking, “what are some other EASY and FREE ways to get more traffic to my site?” Doing some more research, here is what I came up with:
