Comments on: The No-No’s of Website Promotion @ the Marcshoret Conference http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/ Help business owners get more quality customers from their websites Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Google de-myths SEO « Debi’Z Blog http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-941 Google de-myths SEO « Debi’Z Blog Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:43:19 +0000 http://debizblog.wordpress.com/?p=562#comment-941 [...] and “no-follow” tags. Pretty much the same types of things I talked about in my “No-No’s of Website Promotion” presentation to Marcshoret last [...] [...] and “no-follow” tags. Pretty much the same types of things I talked about in my “No-No’s of Website Promotion” presentation to Marcshoret last [...]

]]> By: Debi'z SEO http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-940 Debi'z SEO Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:08:28 +0000 http://debizblog.wordpress.com/?p=562#comment-940 Shira - thanks a lot for the compliments! I'm glad that you found the presentation useful. Yaeer - thanks for your comments. I was wondering, were you at the presentation? Or did you just read through the presentation? In either case, I think you misunderstood what I meant by "narrow focus" (if you were not at the presentation, then it's easy to misunderstand). The narrow focus was not with respect to the products that MS are pushing. It was about how they relate to accessibility. Many webmasters know that using "ALT" (alternative text) with images is good for accessibility, so they don't look for any other accessibility parameters - like colour and brightness contrast. And I have a question about the last sentence of your comment "they don't always work out as you claim" - I didn't understand what you meant by that. Can you clarify? All the best, Debi Shira – thanks a lot for the compliments! I’m glad that you found the presentation useful.

Yaeer – thanks for your comments. I was wondering, were you at the presentation? Or did you just read through the presentation? In either case, I think you misunderstood what I meant by “narrow focus” (if you were not at the presentation, then it’s easy to misunderstand). The narrow focus was not with respect to the products that MS are pushing. It was about how they relate to accessibility. Many webmasters know that using “ALT” (alternative text) with images is good for accessibility, so they don’t look for any other accessibility parameters – like colour and brightness contrast.
And I have a question about the last sentence of your comment “they don’t always work out as you claim” – I didn’t understand what you meant by that. Can you clarify?
All the best,
Debi

]]> By: Yaeer http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-939 Yaeer Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:46:16 +0000 http://debizblog.wordpress.com/?p=562#comment-939 Nice presentation but you got some things wrong. I refer to slide No. 17: Web Pages are not just a graphic wonder to be looked at - they serve a special purpose. And slide 16 is a perfect example: its easy to see that Microsoft is pushing SQL Server (so they dim the rest out and focus on that) - what you called Narrow Focus. In general - each page like this should be narrowly focused - why? To get results. In many ways - some of the No-nos you write are good just for design but when you combine them with purpose and result required - they don't always work out as you claim. Nice presentation but you got some things wrong. I refer to slide No. 17: Web Pages are not just a graphic wonder to be looked at – they serve a special purpose. And slide 16 is a perfect example: its easy to see that Microsoft is pushing SQL Server (so they dim the rest out and focus on that) – what you called Narrow Focus.

In general – each page like this should be narrowly focused – why? To get results.

In many ways – some of the No-nos you write are good just for design but when you combine them with purpose and result required – they don’t always work out as you claim.

]]> By: Shira Stepansky http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Shira Stepansky Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:32:16 +0000 http://debizblog.wordpress.com/?p=562#comment-938 Debi, I just got home from Jerusalem tonight. I made a bee line to your lecture & definitely rewarded for it. WOW! I can't believe you were one of the fill-ins. Informative, useful AND entertaining. You should be speaking more if you can whip such an organized speech together on that kind of notice. I have a checklist I use for sites I create, but now I have a few more items to add. Thanks! Debi,

I just got home from Jerusalem tonight.

I made a bee line to your lecture & definitely rewarded for it. WOW! I can’t believe you were one of the fill-ins.

Informative, useful AND entertaining. You should be speaking more if you can whip such an organized speech together on that kind of notice.

I have a checklist I use for sites I create, but now I have a few more items to add. Thanks!

]]> By: Debi'z SEO http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-937 Debi'z SEO Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:53:46 +0000 http://debizblog.wordpress.com/?p=562#comment-937 Hi Dev and Miriam, Thanks a lot. I enjoyed preparing it, and even enjoyed giving it :-) Hi Dev and Miriam,
Thanks a lot. I enjoyed preparing it, and even enjoyed giving it :-)

]]> By: Miriam Schwab http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-936 Miriam Schwab Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:41:52 +0000 http://debizblog.wordpress.com/?p=562#comment-936 Wow, those are seriously scary sites. You really gave it to Microsoft, didn't you :) Looks like it was a great presentation. Wow, those are seriously scary sites.

You really gave it to Microsoft, didn’t you :)

Looks like it was a great presentation.

]]> By: Keep Track of Your Domains http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-935 Keep Track of Your Domains Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:54:34 +0000 http://debizblog.wordpress.com/?p=562#comment-935 Nice PDF! Wheather your websites suck or not, you should be keeping track of them. That's what DomainLAB is here to help with. Check it out! :) Nice PDF! Wheather your websites suck or not, you should be keeping track of them. That’s what DomainLAB is here to help with. Check it out! :)

]]> By: Devra http://www.debi-z.com/2008/11/03/the-no-nos-of-website-promotion-the-marcshoret-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-934 Devra Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:46:53 +0000 http://debizblog.wordpress.com/?p=562#comment-934 Debi - you gave a great presentation. Engaging and interesting, full of useful information. You kept things rolling and kept the audience with you. I learned some neat things, and I was reinforced in some other stuff I know. Some of what you spoke about is as relevant for on-line help (and really any writing) as it is for web business. It was a great start to what turned out to be a very good day. Thanks! Debi – you gave a great presentation. Engaging and interesting, full of useful information. You kept things rolling and kept the audience with you. I learned some neat things, and I was reinforced in some other stuff I know. Some of what you spoke about is as relevant for on-line help (and really any writing) as it is for web business.

It was a great start to what turned out to be a very good day. Thanks!

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