Myth Busting the ROI on SEM

The SERP SEO Elements

I’ve seen several different citations on why SEM has a better ROI then SEO.   Here are a few of them: SEM is faster, brings traffic to your website quickly, and increases visibility immediate SEM: there is more control over SEM then SEO.  With SEM you can optimize the landing page tailored to the SEM experience […]

Why Organic Search Has a Better ROI

I’ve recently been hearing that organic search (SEO)  has a lower ROI than paid search (SEM).  I have a very hard time believing this.  I can see SEM having a better conversion rate than SEO, but not a better ROI.  Free organic search will ALWAYS have a better ROI than anything you pay for.  The […]

Web Design It's Not Just For PCs Anymore

I have been working in the web design/development community since 1998 and it seems like every time the web takes a step forward it means two steps back for developers. A lot of the same issues that plagued developers when dial-up was still predominant are issues still today. Not because people are on dial-up, but […]

What Number is the Most Important? – Web Metrics (Part 2)

Last article we started to look at metrics and what metrics to report to your business or to help decide if your business is succeeding online. This go around I’ll be looking at metrics for your web team. There are some things you will want to measure to help you maintain your site health. These […]

Why Good HTML is Like a Magic Show

In the movie the Prestige Michael Cain’s character says:

“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course… it probably isn’t. The second act is called “The Turn”. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back. That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”.”

So what does this have to do with good web design?