http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Matt+DeAngelis Marketing Matt DeAngelis Sat, 13 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=52324&ca=Marketing Social Bookmarking could be one of the best things that ever happened to websites and blogs. Basically Social Bookmarketing sites allow users to create a set of content bookmarks. These bookmarks are organized by tags, which are (usually) arbitrary words or phrases the user can assign to content. Th... Marketing Matt DeAngelis Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=51412&ca=Marketing Recently I participated in a forum discussion about offline marketing – that is using more traditional marketing offline to drive traffic to your website or blog. I can still remember the first time I saw a URL in a TV commercial and how cool I thought that was. The offline world has the constraint... Internet Matt DeAngelis Tue, 02 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=50269&ca=Internet How’s that list coming along? You wll recall in the first part of this series I covered getting a list together of ideas for your site or blog niche. Hopefully you have a good sized list of general categories. The next steps involve narrowing the keywords and then doing some supply and demand resear... Business Management Matt DeAngelis Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=50055&ca=Business+Management I’ve had my own business since I was 9 years old. I’ve started, bought, sold and helped out in many different kinds of businesses over the thirty some odd years since then. I’ve done everything I’ve always wanted to do, and I’ve had a lot of fun. Some of the highlights: I worked on Wall Street, I he... Internet Matt DeAngelis Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=49324&ca=Internet There’s been a lot of talk about LinkBaiting in the blogosphere, and I’d like to weigh in. First a little background: Google gives more ranking weight to what they call authoritative sites and pages. It defines those sites as having many outbound and inbound links. So now having links to your site i... Internet Matt DeAngelis Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=48249&ca=Internet I love my RSS reader. I have a gazillion website, blog and news feeds set up in there, and I get the latest information from all of my favorite sites. That means I can be one of the first to share it with you. And RSS Reader 1.0 has a doorbell sound effect that rings when there are new feed entries... Internet Matt DeAngelis Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=48032&ca=Internet In honor of the birthday of one of the most famous Internet millionaires, Mook-Jon, I’m going to try to cover something that he says is one of the keys to his success — researching a niche for your website. BTW, Mook-Jon now writes for WebsitePublisher.net. He has written a birthday blog entry rumin... Internet Matt DeAngelis Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=47600&ca=Internet So…I’m looking through my awstats like I do at least once a day. I have always found server logs to be full of useful information, and it’s important to try to glean as much as you can about your visitors from reading them. Last week there was a very interesting spike in the number of visitors that... Marketing Matt DeAngelis Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=47277&ca=Marketing I’m a busy guy. I own several traditional brick and mortar businesses, and I spend a lot of time online. Since last month I’ve been spending a lot of time working on this blog and re-orienting myself on the Net. So every morning I let my four dogs out, grab a cup of coffee and toast a bagel, then ru... Internet Matt DeAngelis Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=45911&ca=Internet There’s a headline that gets anyone’s attention. There is actually a post on webmasterworld.net from a forum user who calls himself markus007 that makes that claim. I think the few initial suggestions he makes bear repeating: 1. Get a database of IP’s so you know where your traffic is coming from. T...