Chromand - Desiging, Developing, and Marketing for the Interwebs

In my previous post about the Options Wordpress Theme, I mentioned how I always thought Fret Feed would work better in a magazine-style format, and I was considering using Options as a basis for the re-design. Well, it’s been done. Now I’d like to talk a little a bit my thoughts & processes for the [...]

Everyone who blogs talk about how much they want to get links to help them climb up the SERPs.  One way of doing this is by giving out links generously to other bloggers you like. Sometimes you get a link back.  If you don’t, it’s still good karma.

Performancing Ads Is a new company that has been taking the blogosphere by storm. This blog has revently switched from Adsense to the Performancing platform, and it is already working out much better.

I recently installed Performancing Ads on this website, As you can see by the redesigned sidebar. Each of these 125×125 buttons is for sale. Since I’m just starting, I figure I’ll offer a deal to any interested publisher, and These ads are currently going for just $1 a week. If you are interested, shoot me [...]

The biggest thing that kills people’s internet dream of making money online is that they have been so poisoned by the idea of “I made $xxxx in x hours, and you can too!”  that they don’t realize how much effort it takes, especially when getting started.

Kaboodle and ThisNext are really good tools for helping get traffic and sales at your e-commerce store. They are stores that let anyone list any product from any store, and share recommendations, wishlists, and so on.

We see social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Reddit, and Stumbleupon, as a way to market our sites and drive traffic.  But so many people will go in, drop a lot of submissions to a lot of different sites, and forget about it. They cross their fingers, hoping to make the front page.  Like anything else, [...]

Twitter and Squidoo have had a lot of buzz around them lately, and I’ve been playing around with both, so I thought I would offer my two cents on these new social platforms.

The world of Search Engine Optimization is about to change, hopefully for the better. Google is working on making a lot of changes to how it ranks web sites, and will be making more open annoucements in the coming months. So, here is what you need to be focusing on, and you need to [...]

Building backlinks is immensely important when it comes to marketing your website. All the major search engines use backlinks to determine your pagerank. 80% of Google users click the first link when they search for something, and if you can get that #1 spot, you will never have trouble getting traffic to your site. Here [...]