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Consider adding a contact page. I was going to compliment you on the site but couldn't find a way to reach you. Your customers might want it to tell you about issues or give you suggestions. Nice work.
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> most of the techniques for "attacking the organic search rankings" are frowned upon by Google I'd be pretty sure he means whitehat SEO, on-page optimisations, link-building (eg linkbait, social networks) .. not frowned on by Google. Edit: or maybe not!
ha, very few things can be considered "whitehat" seo, everything is a shade of gray
Going back to the UI analogy, it is one thing to provide an optimized UI that has been A/B tested to sell anti-virus software. It is another thing entirely to provide a UI pop-up that says your computer is infected when it is not in the hopes of scarring someone into buying anti-virus software. Optimizing to sell is white-hat. Deceiving to sell is not.
You could alsos try to create an open marketplace for styles so anyone can submit/buy.
I quit my job in tech support about 4 years ago. Since then, I've made at least 7 attempts at starting a bootstrapped business. My original idea was to build "a live-video youtube" but Justin.tv and uStream showed up just a few months after I got started, and the dream died. Since then, I've launched four search engines (two of which are keeping me ramen-profitable), a twitter app (wasted time), and a "viral" site ba…
my feedback is that if you want to target a high-end market you need a high-end website of your own. The design of the current site + cart solution doesn't reflect the elegance I assume your main clientele would be accustomed to. I'm a huge fan of Shopify for simple, pretty online stores.. you might want to check it out.. many of their free themes would be an improvement over the current design. GOOD LUCK!
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ha, very few things can be considered "whitehat" seo, everything is a shade of gray
I don't know about that, Google has a defined set of rules, if you build your site to take advantage of that defined set of rules then good for you. It is no different than apples UI guidelines. When you start to device the system to get ranking that you do not deserve then it becomes a grey area but just optimizing your site and taking advantage of available resources to promote your site is indeed squarely in the r…
If I had a great site about my acai berry product, but stuck only to white hat seo techniques, I would literally never rank for that keyword. I would never get that traffic, never get the exposure, because there are people out there who are taking advantage of the holes in Google's algo while I am "sticking to the rules".
You have to remember that Google publishes rules for 2 reasons: 1) so that you don't participate in shady tactics that polute the internet (for the greater good) and 2) because their job is to clean up search results so the less "spam" that is produced, the easier their job is.
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I quit my job in tech support about 4 years ago. Since then, I've made at least 7 attempts at starting a bootstrapped business. My original idea was to build "a live-video youtube" but Justin.tv and uStream showed up just a few months after I got started, and the dream died. Since then, I've launched four search engines (two of which are keeping me ramen-profitable), a twitter app (wasted time), and a "viral" site ba…
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Playing devil's advocate, what differentiates this from the huge library of free stuff on Deviant Art? http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/?qh=&sec...
They're not free, a random click on your link - http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/?qh=&sec... shows that the copyright owner allows non-commercial use only and then with attribution and informing him of the use. Onerous. "If you want to use it for Profitable goals contact me." I've tried contacting people on DA before about using imagery in semi-commerical settings. It's cheaper to buy stock art than wa…
From that, I really wouldn't be surprised if they grabbed stuff such as these textures from Deviant Art without any regard to the rights. I've certainly seen it happen.
I suppose what I'm saying is that I'd be interested to see how many people among the users of Photoshop who aren't such kung-fu masters of it to have tons of their own such things worked out are going to pay for this stuff instead of looking for it on torrents.
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Playing devil's advocate, what differentiates this from the huge library of free stuff on Deviant Art? http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/?qh=&sec...
They're not free, a random click on your link - http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/?qh=&sec... shows that the copyright owner allows non-commercial use only and then with attribution and informing him of the use. Onerous. "If you want to use it for Profitable goals contact me." I've tried contacting people on DA before about using imagery in semi-commerical settings. It's cheaper to buy stock art than wa…
From that, I really wouldn't be surprised if they grabbed stuff such as these textures from Deviant Art without any regard to the rights. I've certainly seen it happen.
I suppose what I'm saying is that I'd be interested to see how many people among the users of Photoshop who aren't such kung-fu masters of it to have tons of their own such things worked out are going to pay for this stuff instead of looking for it on torrents.
I quit my job in tech support about 4 years ago. Since then, I've made at least 7 attempts at starting a bootstrapped business. My original idea was to build "a live-video youtube" but Justin.tv and uStream showed up just a few months after I got started, and the dream died. Since then, I've launched four search engines (two of which are keeping me ramen-profitable), a twitter app (wasted time), and a "viral" site ba…
I've made about 5 attempts at starting bootstrapped businesses, in the end i've realised that i'm not giving each business long enough to mature and to turn it into something that can perform real value creation. I've also learned, that if allow myself to believe, then there's no such thing as competition, even if google enters the same market, in fact, that might even be a bonus, since that validates the market for…
Amazon stomped on me not once, but twice, first with storage, then with compute nodes. The thing is, amazon didn't follow up with a kill. They have let up on the price pressure to the point where I can field compute nodes at a significantly lower price point... and I'm eying the storage market.
The s3 service was the first time they trounced me. My initial idea was to sell storage, rsync.net style, before rsync.net. s3 killed any possibility of price competition at the time. But, while if you can afford five petabytes of data, their prices are still really, really competitive, I'm considering heading back into the market because they've left the couple hundred gigabyte market wide open.