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Archive for July, 2011

Jul 25 / Tracking Dynamic Sites and Pages with Google Analytics

by Eric Mobley

If you have a website that has dynamic content or has multiple pages and steps under one URL (or an all flash website), you have to do a little more work to get Google Analytics to effectively track your pages. For example, many of our e-commerce sites feature a shopping cart that has multiple steps [...] Read More


No Comments » -- Posted in E-commerce, Web Analytics |

Jul 18 / Removing a URL from Google’s Index with Google Webmaster Tools

by Eric Mobley

You have a beta site in production and project completion is weeks or months away. By chance you catch that the site has been indexed by Google. It could be that your staging server has been indexed. Or maybe your client has shared the beta site’s link on twitter or facebook. Regardless of how it [...] Read More


No Comments » -- Posted in Google, Web Development |

Jul 14 / Facebook has Provided the Blueprint

by Jason Landa

Facebook has put social media on the map, and there’s no sense in debating whether it is here to stay.  I think we can all agree that it’s not going away anytime soon, but what is debatable are the benefits social media marketing and Facebook can offer your business or organization.  For some, the negatives of [...] Read More


3 Comments » -- Posted in Business Building, Facebook, Web Apps, Web Development |

Jul 05 / What is Online Marketing?

by Jason Landa

Within the last year or two if you said you were an online marketing company, your elevator pitch was pretty straight forward.  It all starts with a great web design, maybe a usability audit, some search engine optimization (SEO), and throw in a little email marketing and you’re on your way to online success.   [...] Read More


1 Comment » -- Posted in Business Building, Internet Marketing |