BAMsites Website Marketing

Video is the hottest thing going on the web. If you’ve been thinking lately about starting a blog or setting up a Twitter account, you’re still slightly behind the curve.  Everyone’s talking about video now… and with good reason.  It’s entertaining, it’s easy to find and consume, and it engages viewers in a way that text simply cannot.

Video is on a meteoric rise, and shows no signs of slowing soon.  Along with that trend, there is a growing segment of the online audience that has begun favoring sites that use video over sites that just have text.

Additionally, video advertising is the fastest-growing form of online advertising.  On just YouTube alone, the number of advertisers rose tenfold in the past year.

That means all your competitors are out there using video to steal away your customers… and it’s probably working.

I’ve been working in search engine optimization for nearly seven years, and at this point… I would rather have a video I created showing up on the first page of Google results than my website… because videos in search results are almost certainly receiving more clicks than standard website listings.

We are proud to announce the addition of Jamie Koop Insurance to our family of websites. Jamie Koop Insurance is a long standing home, family, auto and business insurance business dating back over 35 years in the Crosby area.

This site is designed to draw targeted traffic looking for insurance solutions in an area comprised of the following north central Minnesota towns:

1. Crosby-Ironton
2. Emily-Outing
3. Deerwood
4. Bay Lake
5. Crosslake
6. Garrison
7. Brainerd-Baxter
8. Nisswa
9. Pequot Lakes

Thanks Jamie and all the staff for entrusting your new web presence to the professionals at BAMsites Web Marketing Services.

Here’s a quick How To on changing the date range for viewing website usage statistics.

There’s no doubt that WordPress rocks as a blogging and content-management system. Once installed, you can do amazing things with it right out of the virtual box. 7 Must Have Killer Plugins for WordPress.

In this series we will present you some Plugins every pro uses on his blog. You should use them too!

1. Ultimate Search Engine Optimization:  All-In-One-SEO – Pretty much the current standard for allowing page and post individual optimization – a must for a multiple landing page approach to organic rankings.
2. Google Site Map Maker – Be friendly to Google and you will win. Make it easy for Google to index the pages and post of your choice by implementing this plugin.
3. Database Back Up: Better do this often or better yet, use this one that automatically sends you a back up file!
4. Video Blogging: More and more folks are blogging their way to stardom – join the crew.
5. Advanced TinyMice Editor: The onboard editor with WP is pretty bleak. This is something they could improve upon greatly, but in the meantime, there’s several plugins to make your WYSIWYG experience just like a word processor.
6. Exclude Pages: I’m not sure why WP doesn’t give us an easy option for hiding pages, but they don’t as far as I can see. This helps my hide pages that need not be on visible navigation.
7. Share This: Instead of chasing every social network icon around and having a bunch of useless icons festooned on your webpage or blog, why not just make it easy for people to share your content that they think is cool. ShareThis does this as well or better than anyone else.