http://michaelparsonsproject.com "Cross-Media Marketing" Specialists Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:58:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/516/its-not-what-you-do-its-why-you-do-it http://michaelparsonsproject.com/516/its-not-what-you-do-its-why-you-do-it#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:09:15 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=516 There’s this old phrase… It’s not what you do it’s the way that you do it Search on YouTube for the 1939 song (and subsequent remix) from which the phrase is derived. I’m more interested, however, with the following video about WHY you do it being more important than WHAT you do. Enjoy!   WHY [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/516/its-not-what-you-do-its-why-you-do-it/feed 0 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/499/holistic-seo-faq-cost-of-seo http://michaelparsonsproject.com/499/holistic-seo-faq-cost-of-seo#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:08:20 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=499 Low Cost SEO Services – a Myth? I have heard many ways to describe the cost of something and they are all applicable to your small business search engine optimization costs. One example I am personally fond of is the “housing” example. When I say that SEO costs as much as a house, this means [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/499/holistic-seo-faq-cost-of-seo/feed 0 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/496/holistic-seo-faq-seo-blogging http://michaelparsonsproject.com/496/holistic-seo-faq-seo-blogging#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:33:59 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=496 Should I Blog for SEO? Everyone is jumping on the blog bandwagon or talking about WordPress. Should you have a blog for SEO? Definitely get a blog, and make announcements on interesting things going on in the business such as new products, anniversaries, trade show appearances and so on. This should not be “I’m sitting [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/496/holistic-seo-faq-seo-blogging/feed 0 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/487/holistic-seo-faq-competitors http://michaelparsonsproject.com/487/holistic-seo-faq-competitors#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:56:29 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=487 How do I Handle the Competition? Even small businesses in Nashua have local competitors, and there is often concern about what should be done about said competition.  Here’s a brief synopsis:   You have a competitor; said competitor is outranking you and/or outselling you. This is bothering you to no end and the self-doubt talk [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/487/holistic-seo-faq-competitors/feed 0 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/479/holistic-seo-faq-how-do-i-rank-on-google http://michaelparsonsproject.com/479/holistic-seo-faq-how-do-i-rank-on-google#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:29:20 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=479 Before we answer the question “How Do I Rank on Google?”, let’s have a  brief history of the World Wide Web: In the beginning (before 1990), there was no WWW. The world’s first website is http://info.cern.ch/, which is still running. Tim Berners-Lee of CERN helped create the “World Wide Web”. The World Wide Web runs [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/479/holistic-seo-faq-how-do-i-rank-on-google/feed 0 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/467/holistic-seo-faq-1-a-brief-glossary http://michaelparsonsproject.com/467/holistic-seo-faq-1-a-brief-glossary#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:48:16 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=467 What is Holistic SEO? Can it help MY Business? According to Wikipedia: Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/467/holistic-seo-faq-1-a-brief-glossary/feed 0 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/459/mass-ping-list http://michaelparsonsproject.com/459/mass-ping-list#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:02:24 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=459 I saw a mass ping list on PasteBin just a few minutes ago which had 231 sites listed.  Very nice. Here’s the mass ping list I have been personally using for years, and its got 250, or so, sites.  Enjoy. BTW if you’re using WordPress, this goes into Settings ->Writing ->Update Services. http://1470.net/api/ping http://a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b http://api.feedster.com/ping [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/459/mass-ping-list/feed 0 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/211/why-diy-is-doa-for-professionals http://michaelparsonsproject.com/211/why-diy-is-doa-for-professionals#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:06:12 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=211 You might end up with WebSitesThatSuck DIY, or Do-It-Yourself, is not an option most professionals can afford to exercise.  Just about anyone can afford DIY, monetarily speaking.  I don’t know of a businessperson who cannot come up with $49.95 a month to have a cookie cutter template with a few paragraphs relating to their business [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/211/why-diy-is-doa-for-professionals/feed 0 http://michaelparsonsproject.com/29/complete-websites-and-personal-attention-for-select-clients http://michaelparsonsproject.com/29/complete-websites-and-personal-attention-for-select-clients#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:16:25 +0000 Mike the Boss http://michaelparsonsproject.com/?p=29 You Need a Business Website. You know this, your kids know this, even your brother-in-law knows this.  So what to do about it? You could: Do it Yourself with those “Site-builder” programs Have your “websites are easy”, 20-something nephew build you something “cool” Hire a full-time employee for $40,000+/yr plus benefits Contact us Clearly, we would prefer [...]]]> http://michaelparsonsproject.com/29/complete-websites-and-personal-attention-for-select-clients/feed 0