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Google SEO vs SEM

8/26/2012 12:00:00 AM

For some time we have been telling our clients that SEM is a better approach to creating traffic than investing in SEO. Now the opportunity for a site to get their content into organic Google search results is decreasing. Google continues to change their algorithm to make search better at natural language, give it a decreased dependence on keywords...

It’s Not Always About the SEO

4/17/2011 12:00:00 AM

You can optimize the daylights out of a site… do everything right, get the content, set the architecture, get the inbound links and still this site is sitting on top of you, probably for a very good reason.

JJNelsonDDS.com

4/5/2011 12:00:00 AM

The Client:

John J Nelson DDS has a dentistry practice that has been in Winter Park Florida for over 25 years. He is a Professional’s client of 3cStudios, who came by way of a referral from one of our existing Professional’s clients.

Birth Announcement! It’s a p3!

3/7/2011 12:00:00 AM

On February 26th 3cStudios will release our third major version of 3cPlatform – p3. This new version is a leap forward in our vision for a comprehensive, totally web based platform for managing the most important information a small or mid-sized business manages on the web.

So what’s in the latest version?

YOOtheme™ gets introduced to 3cPlatform™

2/4/2011 12:00:00 AM

3cStudios took a look at YOOtheme.com a while back, and we were immediately impressed with their creative designs and attention to detail. But until recently we hadn’t had the opportunity to use one of their designs for a client website that was powered by 3cPlatform™. It was love at first byte.

Format Dates in SQL Server like C# and VB.net

2/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Search is a big part of the functionality built into our web applications and datetime data types are one of the more difficult types to search because the data is stored differently than it is displayed. We use ASP.net and C# as part of our arsenal of development tools and many times we need to search the database in the same format as the user is seeing it. So for a while now we have been wishing there was a way to do something like this:

Search Engine Marketing - PPC

1/14/2011 12:00:00 AM

A basic explanation of Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and how a PPC ( Pay Per Click) Ad works

Information on Scum Bag Spammers

12/15/2010 12:00:00 AM

Our hosted websites recieve attempts from scum bag spammer trying to populate sites with profanity and/or advertisements. The most puzzling ones are the ones that try and use software to automate filling comment fields or form fields with advertising or just plain gibberish. Our internal tracking systems (AEMS) is able to log the activity and we thought others would like the information so they could do the same.

E-mail is Now Protected by 4th Amendment

12/15/2010 12:00:00 AM

In a decision ruled only yesterday, the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has stated that e-mail should be treated like other private forms of communication when it comes to search and seizure. That is, the authorities have no more right to ask an internet service provider to turn over your e-mail.

Not Being Liked - Bad For Business

11/28/2010 12:00:00 AM

Facebook “Likes” may have seemed trivial at one point but that may be about to change, and in a big way. Google and the other major search engines have been paying attention to what social interaction and social content means to their search customers and “Likes” soon may have an impact on search results.

Use Twitter To Fix Complaints?

9/26/2010 12:00:00 AM

When Tony Bosco saw mostly negative reviews about the restaurant Wow Bao, he Tweeted: "Going to 'business' dinner (at)Wow Bao. Can any1 tell me if it's going to suck as much reviews suggest."

And almost immediately he got a response from an unexpected source —

$2K for Your Office Computer?

9/22/2010 12:00:00 AM

If we offered you $2,000 for your office’s primary computer, would you take it? Nearly 98% of the people we’ve asked start off by saying sure! In today’s hardware market it could easily be replaced and you would probably end up with a better computer and a warranty.

What’s New in 3cFreeStore - Sept 13, 2010

9/13/2010 12:00:00 AM

We have been working "one on one" with customizations and changes for each of our organizations using 3cFreeStore, and this is our first release that includes several of those features and suggestions. The new release was published on Sunday night and here is a short list of the new improvements.

The New 3cStudios.com

9/8/2010 12:00:00 AM

2010 has been a busy year for us and we continue to evolve. Both our development team and our design team convinced me that instead of developing an elaborate portfolio section on our website, why not “show off” a little and redesign our own site and incorporate all the great technology that we develop for our clients. Needless to say it wasn’t a hard sell.

Top 15 Usability Factors For Your Website

7/18/2010 7:09:27 PM

5 Catastrophic Web Mistakes

7/6/2010 12:00:00 AM

1. No Web Presence at All

2. Not Knowing Your Audience

3. Lengthy Text

4. Stale Content

Death of the 5-Page Website

6/19/2010 12:00:00 AM

Are you considering building a website for your small business? Before you dive in and create one, it’s important that you make sure what you create today can grow and change as your business does.

Look at the business and not the number of pages

Jennifer Shaheen of Entrepreneur magazine nailed it on the head when she said - When you decide to build a website avoid this statement: "I want a basic five-page website to get me started.”

Adobe Vs. Apple: Whose Side Are You On?

5/16/2010 12:00:00 AM

Adobe: We Love Apple, But They're Taking Away Freedom

Adobe co-founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock ("Our thoughts on open markets") are quoted as saying “We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web — the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time.

Should your company be tweeting?

5/10/2010 12:00:00 AM

Here are some questions to consider:

Can you articulate the company vision in 140 characters or less, minus PR puffery and cliché?
Can you give credit to cool, innovative, or thought-provoking ideas, even if coined by someone else?
Are you willing to listen to and engage others, even if "others" = employees, customers, or activists?

Microsoft, Apple & Google Agree: “The Future Of The Web Is HTML5"

5/3/2010 12:00:00 AM

2010 is shaping up to be a big year for HTML5. Apple and Google have been advocates, and now software giant Microsoft is joining in. When Internet Explorer 9 comes out, it will support HTML5 and with its overwhelming dominance help make it common across the web (thunderous applause can actually be heard in the background if you hold the internet to your ear).

How To Drive Blog Readership

4/6/2010 12:00:00 AM

If you have a blog then you know that the biggest challenge next to content is readers. How do you get your audience, who are bombarded by hundreds (thousands?) of messages per day, to focus on your messages?

Of course your first responsibility is providing content your audience will actually find relevant and useful. Your second responsibility is to tell them, often, that your content exists.

See how your site compares to the 100 most popular sites on the internet

3/29/2010 12:00:00 AM

What does it take to be popular on the internet? You don’t need to be named Google, Facebook, or Amazon but searching, social networking, and shopping do rule the top 100 most visited sites on the internet. The BBC wanted to get an idea of how people use the internet and examined the 100 largest sites.

Goals to Reach For When Designing Your Next Website

3/14/2010 12:00:00 AM

Goals are important for website design, they help designers focus on the important things and not lose sight of what you want in the end.

The Often-Overlooked Traffic Power of LinkedIn

3/9/2010 12:00:00 AM

LinkedIn is often discussed as a powerful social networking tool, particularly for business professionals, employers, and jobseekers. What is not discussed as frequently is the site's ability to simply drive traffic to your site.

Seven Reasons Small Business Fail and How To Avoid Them

3/6/2010 12:00:00 AM

I’ve never taken the time to survey small business owners to find out why they started their own business and I would venture a guess to say they would all have unique answers in their own way. If you are thinking that you want to start a business just to make more money that may not be enough of a reason to get you through the tough and lean times..

The 10 Social Media Metrics Your Company Should Monitor

2/28/2010 12:00:00 AM

While companies are starting to adopt Social Media for online marketing campaigns, and even letting employees participate, the question of ROI (Return on Investment), along with doubts about what metrics to measure. How do you know how effective your social media campaigns are if you’re not measuring any metrics, let alone an overall ROI?

HP is starting to remind us a lot of Dell

2/26/2010 12:00:00 AM

Back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s Dell was our PC vendor of choice. They put together a good quality PC but equally important they had great service and support when you needed them after the sale. Well that all went away in the name of profitability and we consequently found another company we liked better, HP.

7 Tips for Effective Marketing with Twitter

2/21/2010 12:00:00 AM

With millions of people connecting through social media, advertisers and marketers are hustling to get in on the action. In the past year we’ve seen many companies and brands attempt to step into this new world only to fail miserably. After analyzing many marketing flops on Twitter, the underlying issues are very apparent.

No Flash in Windows Mobile 7

2/15/2010 12:00:00 AM

Windows Mobile 7 will be revealed by Microsoft at Mobile World Congress today. Adobe has issued a statement confirming Windows Mobile 7 will not support Flash. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Flash?

The SEO business is no stranger to the phrase 'snake oil'.

2/13/2010 12:00:00 AM

This, of course, doesn't mean that SEO efforts aren't legitimate and that there aren't reputable SEOs; SEO is extremely important for most online businesses and there are plenty of competent practitioners.

While there have always been plenty of inexperienced and incompetent practitioners passing themselves off as experts...

Mistakes Small Businesses Shouldn’t Make Online

2/6/2010 12:00:00 AM

Internet marketing is a young, unregulated industry with a very small number of legitimate educational opportunities which makes it look like a typical market for lemons, and a breeding ground for scammers.

Although complex, Internet marketing is not rocket science. A little education can go a long way in protection from scam and wrong Internet marketing decisions.

Is Your Social Status Affecting Your Google Search Ranking?

1/30/2010 12:00:00 AM

If you are one of those people still skeptical about the business uses of social media, you may be interested to know that Google's Social Search is no longer just an experiment. Though it does have the BETA tag on it, it is now mainstream. This is something we've all known would come sooner or later, but now it's here.

Why Flash Sucks

1/26/2010 12:00:00 AM

Let’s start with the Flash apologists. Whenever I say “Flash sucks” somebody points out that it doesn’t, but that some Flash developers truly suck and don’t know how to use it properly (and I know somewhere in Oregon, or Europe or wherever in the world he is right now, my old friend Weszt probably wants to kick me for saying that).

Improve your Quality Score

1/25/2010 12:00:00 AM

Quality score was introduced by search engines looking to receive maximum yield from advertising. By understanding the search engines’ approach, you can take steps to improve your ROI, independent of your bidding strategy.

Using Twitter for Business

1/20/2010 12:00:00 AM

Businesses are getting into the Twitter game, using it as a way to provide near-instantaneous customer service, to promote their services, or to maintain brand awareness by staying engaged in ongoing conversations about their products and their competitors’.

If you’re on Twitter just to keep up with friends and find the best parties, this article isn’t for you.

Backlinks – Why they are important and how to get them

1/6/2010 12:00:00 AM

The slimy SEO snake oil salesmen put to the side for a second, getting ranked by Google is about being authoritative on subject matter and one of the ways that Google measures authoritativeness is by backlinks. Backlinks are links to your site as a reference or source of information.

3cPlatform 3 (Xanadu 3.167.0)

4/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

This month we are officially launching the latest version of 3cPlatform: Xanadu 3.167.0. We couldn't be more proud of how all the modules have turned out. We've also been developing revisions of the module descriptions that we intend to post in the next couple of weeks, hopefully along with a series of how-to videos.

What A Month!

11/27/2007 12:00:00 AM

November has been an extremely busy, yet productive, month at 3cStudios. We’ve had the great pleasure to work with some fantastic clients on literally dozens of projects and have in the process both used all the resources at our disposal and picked up a few handy skills here and there. Also numerous sites have successfully launched, including the Orlando Science Center , Winter Garden Theatre, etc, and we've begun development on a new UI style for our products that we hope to launch early next year called Xanadu.

3cStudios.com gets a new look

9/6/2007 12:00:00 AM

Our Senior Director of Interactive Design, Weszt, came up with what an amazing new design which we code named "Singapour" (yes, the spelling is intentional and if you know someone at 3cStudios that you are close with, be sure and ask them why). It started as a revision 3cSnapshot.com and we thought it was so great and so flexible that we would carry it across all of our corporate websites. You can also see how it looks on 3cPlatform.com. This look and feel will be used on all of our product sites shortly.