Website Design

Are you tired of telling people to visit your landing page for your next teleseminar because the web page address is so horrendously long?  Is it something like http://www.clicks.aweber/user/afes?=lafuygjn52jksdkjlh3425njkjh5?  Wouldn’t it be nice to tell people to go to snipurl.com/teleseminar?

If you’ve seen shortened URLs but haven’t yet used them yourself, here’s a great site to get started.

No you don’t need to install anything.  Just set up an account in about 30 seconds.  You just paste in your long URL in the “create snips” tab.  Then put in a word in the “nickname” field.  If you enter your company name as the nickname, your final snipped URL will be snipurl.com/yourcompanyname.  However, once you use a word, you can’t use it again so don’t use up your company name on a test.   Save that nickname for something that you’ll use again and again.  That way you can tell people to visit the snipped URL for years to come, rather than wasting your best nicknames on a one-time event.

Then in the future,  you can look at the “manage snips” tab and see how many people clicked on your links.  It’s a great way to test response rates and test different messages to increase click through rates and increase website traffic.   I hope that helps.

I was born and raised in Colorado so I have many fond memories of Estes Park.  I went to summer camp up there and now we have relatives that live up by the YMCA.  So when we were asked to help out with the Lodging Association’s website, we were excited.  Here’s a post that we just did to help drive some traffic for the phrase Lodging Estes Park.

Have you ever wondered what the most popular sites in the world are?  We all know that website traffic is the lifeblood of most businesses these days.  Now you can see who’s getting the most website traffic.

http://www.alexa.com/topsites

Are you a do-it-yourselfer website owner or have you noticed that your current website design company is lacking in the area of getting traffic to your site so you’ve started doing a little research all on your own? Well then I have some great news. Red Rocket has just published a website traffic tutorial on the 17 Methods to Boost your Website Traffic! Simply go to http://www.redrocketmg.com/website-traffic.asp to sign up and get your FREE tutorial. If you don’t have any website traffic, then you don’t have any online leads or sales. Put your site to work for you; it will be the best use of your marketing dollars in 2010.

New Website Traffic Tutorial

Every now and again, we like to put out a more substantial report, tutorial, or whitepaper that will help others with their website design needs.

We’ve just published a website traffic tutorial called, “17 ways to boost your website traffic.”

The tutorial is available to anyone and gives a bunch of ideas on how to create more web traffic, in legitimate ways. About half of the ideas are executed online and the other half are accomplished “offline” in the real world.

The ideas are rated on their approximate cost and return to help you get an idea on the amount of resources it would take to pull off each one successfully.

Enjoy!

I know it’s been a difficult year for many of you but with the holidays comes a renewal and the opportunity to start fresh again with the new year.  May you and your family have a great Chistmas and enjoy the reason for the season.

Chadd

Have you been to Ellicottville, New York?  It’s in Upstate New York just 20 miles south of Buffalo.  With its close proximity to Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, outdoor activities abound.  Within minutes of Ellicottville, you’ll find fishing, boating, hiking, bike trails, swimming, sledding, skiing and more.  Plus the area is filled with great restaurants, quaint coffee shops, book stores and other shopping opportunities.  If you’re considering a trip to the area, your best best for finding vacation rentals in Ellicottville is through ellicottville.com.  Or if you want to learn more about the community itself, here’s a link to wikipedia’s page about the town.

This week, your stalwart team of Northern Colorado website designers ate lunch at The Bungalow. The Bungalow is generally thought of as a good place to get coffee, but not necessary a lunch destination.

The lunch and later menu consists mostly of items in the sandwich family, with a twist. There are tasty sounding wraps, sandwiches with special sauces, and grilled panini’s. I had the spicy turkey sandwich (it has a much cooler name, that I don’t recall), and it was delicious. My compatriots all enjoyed their meals along with specialty drinks and teas.

I’m always on the lookout for free soda refills and you never know at a place like a coffee shop. So, I was pleasantly surprised to find out The Bungalow does give them.

The service was friendly and they even brought the food to our table, which isn’t always the case at order over the counter type establishments. The prices were reasonable, with my Sandwich, chips and drink costing about $7.

As we expected, the blog post for vacation rentals in Ellicottville dropped a few positions over night.  We’ll do a couple more posts today and see what happens.

When most people think about vacationing in New York, they usually think of Manhattan first, but more and more people are turning to upstate New York for unique alternatives to the big city.  If you’re thinking about vacation rentals in Ellicottville, ERAVP.com has listings for all of the best spots in town.  This gorgeous town is full of great shops and restaurants plus the local ski resorts add year-round activities for families.

To find out more, visit ellicottville.com.