http://www.sea-waves.net/blog Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:52:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At SeaWaves, we specialize in search engine placement. We manage over 50 websites and this gives us a fine-grained and diversified picture of how the search engines organize search listings. One thing we've noticed over the last year is that static websites are at a disadvantage. Over the ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/the-downside-of-static-websites/ We've recently hired several employees at SeaWaves, and perhaps the single biggest differentiating factor has been the resume that was sent. When we are sifting through job applicants, we are looking for cream of the crop applicants. Normally, we only hire candidates who "wow" us with their ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/jobs-and-resume-writing/ Amazon has one of the most effective affiliate systems on the planet. Much of their success is due to the fact that they make it very easy to create individual product links. With many employees who need to create Amazon Affiliate links without associate ID, we were ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/a-simple-way-to-create-amazon-affiliate-links/ SeaWaves was instrumental in developing a new social news site called Glamorati. Our concept with Glamorati was to develop a brand that simultaneously represented the average person's A) love of celebrity culture and B) hatred of celebrity culture. In other words, "the Glamorati" stands for "common ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/seawaves-launches-glamorati-in-beta/ SeaWaves is pleased to announce that we've hired Dan Stein as a fulltime edtor for The Dog Guide. Our over-riding philosophy as an online web publisher is to enable smart and passionate people to building resources about what they love. Dan has been working with dogs in professional environments for ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/seawaves-hires-fulltime-editor-for-the-dog-guide/ SeaWaves is partnering with several high profile individuals online to test out the Advertising and Marketing niche in it's latest project called AdSavvy. The basic idea behind AdSavvy is to analyze print and tv commercial ads and help identify the keys to creating ads that work. The hope with ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/seawaves-launches-adsavvy/ SeaWaves has launched a group microblog called Thrive which covers news in popular culture. As the web moves increasingly towards headline oriented information, microblogging is where everything is happening these days. Just check out Twitter. Does your business want a Twitter presence? Or do you want to set ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/seawaves-launches-thrive/ SeaWaves Technology has focused almost all of its efforts on doing SEO for local niche blogs and websites. The great thing about local niche blogging is that the competition is much less fierce, the advertising dollars are much more targeted, and the path to success is much clearer. In ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/local-search-and-local-niche-websites/ When customers come to us looking for linkbait, they are usually really looking for a short term spike in traffic from Digg or some other social media venue. But the short term traffic spike from Digg is not worth very much on it's own. In fact, there only two ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/not-all-linkbait-is-shorterm/ The freemium business model uses free content to attract traffic. Also, the free content is used to market paid content. Paid content can also be called premium content. Hence, the term freemium (free + premium). This is an excellent model because it helps you avoid these ... http://www.sea-waves.net/blog/avoid-two-common-pitfalls-with-the-freemium-business-model/