Bird Food, Bird Cages, Bird Toys, At The Best Prices - Prevue Hendryx 485 Pet Products Feisty Ferret Home with Stand, Black Hammertone
The Prevue Hendryx 485 Bird Cage comes complete with ramps, shelves, and even a hammock to keep your fuzzy friend entertained and content. All the reviews bring this up!
This Prevue bird cage is featuring two large doors, you are able to easily access your petwhile ferrets can't open these "escape-proof" doors.
Platforms, grille and bottom tray are all easilyremoved for convenient cleaning. Castered stand provides portability from room to room while the space saver shelf holds toys, treats and supplies.
Our Feisty Ferret Home will complement any room in its black hammertone finish and measures 31-inch long, 20-inch wide, 41-1/2-inch high ( 54-inch high on stand) with 7/8-inch wire spacing.
This by far is the BEST deal out there!!! I've been cage shopping for my rats for 2 years & this is the best cage. There is no rubbery paint, or cruddy wires that bend & rust, but a very nice steel wiring & hammer-tone finish instead. It's easy to clean (pullout pan) & it's roomy; I'm 5'6", so you get the idea. It's a cage that you won't be embarrassed to put in your living room, that's for sure. Go ahead -look around in the stores, I'm SURE you won't find a better quality or price tag!
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The Prevue Hendryx 485 has great size for the low bird cage price with tons of room for other bird toys, hammocks, dishes and anything else.
What really makes this Prevue 485 easy to love is the two front facing doors which makes everything easy to clean and access unlike some of the cheap bird cages we have bought in the past
It is so easy to put together with the PDF form from Prevue bird cage home page and once it's assembled it has a very sturdy feel to it and does not look or feel cheap
Another nice feature is the cage is lifted off the ground so the animal is never at ground level and the storage shelf is very handy.
wheels for easy moving and cleaning, even on carpet! so there is no heavy lifting at all, this was a feature we like about this prevue product for our Parrakeet and Lory.
The ramps and hammock included are actually pretty nice, not too slippery and just the right size.I highly recommend the Prevue Hendryx 485 because of al the above reasons. Cheap price helps too.
Prevue Hendryx 485 Pet Products Feisty Ferret Home with Stand, Black Hammertone (Misc.)
This cage is AWESOME for my two male chinchillas! They just love this cage so much. There is so much room for them to jump around, play, and eat.
The building part was awful. It seemed like none of the screws would fit. The instructions were horrible! I had to call my dad to come help put this thing together.
Despite of the horrible instructions and building, I rate this 5 stars. The happiness of my chinchillas make up for the frustration of trying to get it together.
I ordered this on a Friday evening and was on my doorstep 11:00 the next day. INCREDIBLE.
I highly recommend!!! I just hope you're mechanically inclined if you're putting it together yourself.
This review is from: Prevue Hendryx 485 Pet Products Feisty Ferret Home with Stand, Black Hammertone (Misc.)
This cage is great for my two ferrets, it gives them the space to be alone when they want to be, but still enough room to play when they want to play. My issue with this product was the instructions for putting the cage together. It took me two hours to put together because I had to figure it out on my own. Sure, it comes with directions, but you need a magnifying glass to see the pictures and the print is so light I could not see the instructions. Overall, it is a great cage though. My ferrets have not figured out how to escape from the cage which is GREAT. They seem much happier.
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
10 Reasons Why People Don't Visit Your Web Site
Craig Seaton at The Website Builder Pro is offering a free link Builder
today http://www.thewebsitebuilderpro.com Plus a free SEO book 1. You don't offer free original content. It's important to give your visitors information they can't find any- where else. If you're the only source for a certain type of information, people will flock to your web site. 2. You don't offer free software. Most people like to find good deals on software for their computers. If the software is free, that is even better. 3. You don't offer a free contest or sweepstakes. It's a fact, people like to win things. If you can fulfill that need, people will stop by to visit. 4. You don't offer a free directory. Create a directory of web sites on a particular topic that is related to your target audience. People will visit because they will find what they're looking for, all in one place. 5. You don't offer a free e-zine. Most people love to get free information that they're interested in emailed to them on a regular basis. This saves them time and money. 6. You don't offer a free community. People like to have a place were they can have discussions with others on a particular subject. You could add a chat room or message board to your web site. 7. You don't offer a free affiliate program. One of people's basic needs to survive is money. When you offer them a free opportunity to make money they'll line up to visit your web site. 8. You don't offer a free online utility. When you offer a utility that can solve a problem, people will visit your web site. The utility could be a free autoresponder, e-mail account, search engine submission, etc. 9. You don't offer free current information. Supply news stories related to your web site. People want up-to-date news on the topics they are interested in. They will also be interested in visiting your web site. 10. You don't offer free samples of your product or service. Have you ever been to a store and you jumped at the chance to get a free sample of food? This same concept will also attract people to visit your web site
Monday, October 29, 2012
Reasons Why You Need To Blog
Blogs aren’t exactly the new kid on the digital marketing block, but boy, they sure do get the job done. Here’s why I think you should seriously consider adding a blog to your company’s website.
1. A blog shows visitors you know your stuff
Whatever your industry, potential customers probably want to know you understand it before they hand over their credit card number, or even call. If they can easily find some articles written by you and/or your staff that show your company’s expertise, they’re going to feel a lot more confident about spending their time or money (or both) with you.
2. A blog helps you get more traffic
Sounds good – maybe even a little too good to be true, right? Nevertheless, if you’re blogging regularly and well – or even kind of well – you’re bound to get some social media attention that will bring more visitors to your website. You may earn links from other sites, too. And then there are the SEO benefits inherent in any decent blog…
3. Blog = SEO, baby
The more content on your website, the better your odds of ranking highly in Google search results for the keyword phrases Google finds in your posts.
Search engines really look for each page of a website to be about one specific thing. Every blog post is a page, so if you want to rank for 50 different keyword phrases, you really need to have close to 50 different pages (such as blog posts) with each page dedicated primarily to a single keyword phrase.
You can’t hope to rank well in search engines for many keywords that matter for your business if your site has just a few pages such as Contact, About Us, Meet Our Team, and a home page that talks about all the various things you offer.
4. Blog posts are link bait
We’re sure you know that links from other sites to yours – also known as backlinks or inbound links – are an important factor for helping your site appear higher in SERPs (search engine results pages). And as you probably also know, it isn’t easy to get someone to link from their site to yours. (Unless you pay them, and we don’t recommend that.)
It’s unlikely that someone will want to link to your home page, or to a page about your product or services. But how about an interesting and insightful blog post about your industry? That might do the trick.
If you regularly put out interesting or helpful content on your blog, you will have a much easier time getting backlinks. Be a good example: When you see interesting or helpful content on someone else’s blog that’s relevant to one of your posts, do include a link to that blog. (They may return the favor!)
5. A blog is food for social media
Just like it’s hard to rank well without blog posts, it’s hard to get anyone to share a link to your website on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ if you don’t regularly blog about interesting topics.
If you can blog well enough that people start sharing links to your blog posts from their social media accounts, there’s nothing better. People like to share valuable articles with their networks, and these social media links will help your SEO. Social media mentions and links are a signal to Google and Bing that people consider a site valuable – and the search engines use that signal to help them rank websites in search results. Plus, you’ll get more direct visitors from the people who actually click those social media links.
For tips on creating blog posts more people will want to share in social media, read our post You Deserve More Blog Comments & Shares.
One more great thing about blog posts – they give you something to mention in your own social media accounts. Some days even the cleverest person runs out of new things to say.
6. Behold the CTR power of Google Authorship
Have you seen a search result like this? That’s called a rich snippet – a Google search result that isn’t just the plain ‘ol link with a little text below. When the author of a blog post is hooked up with Google Authorship, their blog posts will look like this in Google SERPs.
So what? Well, search results like this have a much higher CTR (click-through rate). MarketingTechBlog.com found that their posts with a Google+ portrait in search results were almost 5 times as likely to be clicked on in search results than links without it.
Read more about the importance of Google Authorship and how to set it up for your blog.
7. Unlike social media posts, you really do own your blog content – and you’re the one benefiting from it
For many business owners, the idea of giving up control is scary. But that’s exactly what you’re doing when you post content on a social network.
Facebook could decide that you’re violating their terms of service and delete your page. LinkedIn gets to decide which ads to place around your content. Twitter sometimes goes down and makes your tweets temporarily inaccessible. Pinterest could get bought by some company that doesn’t care about keeping the site working. The list of risks goes on.
When you put out great content on social networks, you get some benefits for sure – and so do the social networks. They get more pages in Google’s index, they can sell more advertising, and their valuation or stock prices could go up – all thanks to you and a few million others.
Now don’t get us wrong. Here at AboutUs, we definitely think social media is something businesses should be using. But we hate to see blogging overlooked when it has some serious advantages for almost any business.
8. Getting and keeping people on your site probably helps your business goals.
Do you want people to buy your product, call you about your services, fill out a lead generation form, or do something similar? If someone is reading a blog post on your website, the odds are much better that they will.
9. Blog posts have a longer shelf life
Email newsletters, tweets and Facebook posts are fleeting, and will likely be forgotten and hard to find a few days after they’re sent or posted. Your blog is a great place for more evergreen topics that will stay relevant and helpful weeks or months after they’re first published.
It’s certainly fine to blog about timely and current things, and we encourage you to do so. But make sure the important things you want people to see now and later are published on your blog.
10. Help with customer support
Do you keep getting the same questions from your customers? Why not turn each question and answer into a blog post? It will lessen the load on your customer support people, and make it easier for them to give more detailed answers quicker. It can also show prospective clients that you are serious about helping your customers.
11. Cred for author
Do you want your CEO to be seen as a thought leader in your space? Do you want to give your employees some publicity? Writing for the company blog and getting a byline can give employees (including the CEO) some street cred, and probably a warm, fuzzy feeling. Bonus points for having each author create or enhance their Google+ profile, and for assuring they have Google Authorship status (more about that here). (Do NOT post everyone’s blog posts as Admin…we’re begging you.)
12. Blog comments – and commentors – are gold
One of the great features of blog posts is that they allow readers to leave a comment. This conversation is invaluable. It can give you ideas for your new product, next blog post, a better customer service process, or something else important to your business.
Because it takes time and effort to comment on a blog post, anyone who does is probably worth taking a look at. Are they a prospective client or business partner someone should follow up with? Is the commenter someone you should follow on Twitter? Is he or she a customer you should reach out to, maybe to offer support or ask for a testimonial?
1. A blog shows visitors you know your stuff
Whatever your industry, potential customers probably want to know you understand it before they hand over their credit card number, or even call. If they can easily find some articles written by you and/or your staff that show your company’s expertise, they’re going to feel a lot more confident about spending their time or money (or both) with you.
2. A blog helps you get more traffic
Sounds good – maybe even a little too good to be true, right? Nevertheless, if you’re blogging regularly and well – or even kind of well – you’re bound to get some social media attention that will bring more visitors to your website. You may earn links from other sites, too. And then there are the SEO benefits inherent in any decent blog…
3. Blog = SEO, baby
The more content on your website, the better your odds of ranking highly in Google search results for the keyword phrases Google finds in your posts.
Search engines really look for each page of a website to be about one specific thing. Every blog post is a page, so if you want to rank for 50 different keyword phrases, you really need to have close to 50 different pages (such as blog posts) with each page dedicated primarily to a single keyword phrase.
You can’t hope to rank well in search engines for many keywords that matter for your business if your site has just a few pages such as Contact, About Us, Meet Our Team, and a home page that talks about all the various things you offer.
4. Blog posts are link bait
We’re sure you know that links from other sites to yours – also known as backlinks or inbound links – are an important factor for helping your site appear higher in SERPs (search engine results pages). And as you probably also know, it isn’t easy to get someone to link from their site to yours. (Unless you pay them, and we don’t recommend that.)
It’s unlikely that someone will want to link to your home page, or to a page about your product or services. But how about an interesting and insightful blog post about your industry? That might do the trick.
If you regularly put out interesting or helpful content on your blog, you will have a much easier time getting backlinks. Be a good example: When you see interesting or helpful content on someone else’s blog that’s relevant to one of your posts, do include a link to that blog. (They may return the favor!)
5. A blog is food for social media
Just like it’s hard to rank well without blog posts, it’s hard to get anyone to share a link to your website on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ if you don’t regularly blog about interesting topics.
If you can blog well enough that people start sharing links to your blog posts from their social media accounts, there’s nothing better. People like to share valuable articles with their networks, and these social media links will help your SEO. Social media mentions and links are a signal to Google and Bing that people consider a site valuable – and the search engines use that signal to help them rank websites in search results. Plus, you’ll get more direct visitors from the people who actually click those social media links.
For tips on creating blog posts more people will want to share in social media, read our post You Deserve More Blog Comments & Shares.
One more great thing about blog posts – they give you something to mention in your own social media accounts. Some days even the cleverest person runs out of new things to say.
6. Behold the CTR power of Google Authorship
Have you seen a search result like this? That’s called a rich snippet – a Google search result that isn’t just the plain ‘ol link with a little text below. When the author of a blog post is hooked up with Google Authorship, their blog posts will look like this in Google SERPs.So what? Well, search results like this have a much higher CTR (click-through rate). MarketingTechBlog.com found that their posts with a Google+ portrait in search results were almost 5 times as likely to be clicked on in search results than links without it.
Read more about the importance of Google Authorship and how to set it up for your blog.
7. Unlike social media posts, you really do own your blog content – and you’re the one benefiting from it
For many business owners, the idea of giving up control is scary. But that’s exactly what you’re doing when you post content on a social network.
Facebook could decide that you’re violating their terms of service and delete your page. LinkedIn gets to decide which ads to place around your content. Twitter sometimes goes down and makes your tweets temporarily inaccessible. Pinterest could get bought by some company that doesn’t care about keeping the site working. The list of risks goes on.
When you put out great content on social networks, you get some benefits for sure – and so do the social networks. They get more pages in Google’s index, they can sell more advertising, and their valuation or stock prices could go up – all thanks to you and a few million others.
Now don’t get us wrong. Here at AboutUs, we definitely think social media is something businesses should be using. But we hate to see blogging overlooked when it has some serious advantages for almost any business.
8. Getting and keeping people on your site probably helps your business goals.
Do you want people to buy your product, call you about your services, fill out a lead generation form, or do something similar? If someone is reading a blog post on your website, the odds are much better that they will.
9. Blog posts have a longer shelf life
Email newsletters, tweets and Facebook posts are fleeting, and will likely be forgotten and hard to find a few days after they’re sent or posted. Your blog is a great place for more evergreen topics that will stay relevant and helpful weeks or months after they’re first published.
It’s certainly fine to blog about timely and current things, and we encourage you to do so. But make sure the important things you want people to see now and later are published on your blog.
10. Help with customer support
Do you keep getting the same questions from your customers? Why not turn each question and answer into a blog post? It will lessen the load on your customer support people, and make it easier for them to give more detailed answers quicker. It can also show prospective clients that you are serious about helping your customers.
11. Cred for author
Do you want your CEO to be seen as a thought leader in your space? Do you want to give your employees some publicity? Writing for the company blog and getting a byline can give employees (including the CEO) some street cred, and probably a warm, fuzzy feeling. Bonus points for having each author create or enhance their Google+ profile, and for assuring they have Google Authorship status (more about that here). (Do NOT post everyone’s blog posts as Admin…we’re begging you.)
12. Blog comments – and commentors – are gold
One of the great features of blog posts is that they allow readers to leave a comment. This conversation is invaluable. It can give you ideas for your new product, next blog post, a better customer service process, or something else important to your business.
Because it takes time and effort to comment on a blog post, anyone who does is probably worth taking a look at. Are they a prospective client or business partner someone should follow up with? Is the commenter someone you should follow on Twitter? Is he or she a customer you should reach out to, maybe to offer support or ask for a testimonial?
Saturday, October 27, 2012
How do I get people to my site?
Here is, by far, one of the most common questions I get:Short of me saying "Just hire Me"
"I just started a new business. How do I get people to my site?"
Another great question from our community... because it's true -- the hardest part about traffic building is getting to your first 1,000 visitors and keeping the momentum going after that.
Today you get your answer. If I started a new site, here's exactly what I would do to get my first 1,000 visitors:
The first thing to understand is there's an easy way and a hard way to jump-start your traffic.
In the old days, your only choice was to take the slow route: build links to get search rankings, grow your prominence on forums, and other things like that. These were and still are good, but they take time.
And I find that, when you're just starting, the key to keeping motivated is to see quick results. And today that is much easier because you've got sites like Facebook and Twitter with millions and MILLIONs of users on them every day.
(Plus, as an added bonus, it is easy to find people in your target market on them, too. Jackpot.)
So the easiest way to 1,000 visitors is by focusing time and energy into building your Twitter and Facebook profile.
With Twitter do the following:
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1. After you create your profile start following other people and companies in your industry.
2. Perform keyword searches on Twitter for keywords related to what you do. Also start following 100 to 200 of those people each day.
3. Start tweeting about topics related to your industry (don't just tweet about things on your website).
4. You'll notice that after a few days 20 to 30% of the people you follow will follow you back. You can start manually unfollowing the people who don't follow you back or if you don't have the time you can use a service like Tweet Adder which can do this for you in an automated fashion.
5. Start participating on Twitter by tweeting at people in your industry and retweeting some of their tweets.
6. At this point you should have been on Twitter for more than 5 days and now you can start tweeting about your company and content. Make sure you aren't doing a hard sell and that 80% of the time you are still tweeting about stuff that isn't related to your company.
FaceBook
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1. Friend thought leaders in your industry. Although a large percentage of the people will not accept your friend request, at least 10% of the thought leaders should.
2. Start engaging with your audience by posting stuff on your wall. The stuff shouldn't be about your company, but more so about industry news and events related to your sector.
3. To create the most engagement post things that are short and during times you think your "target friends" are online.
4. Start commenting on your friends' wall and like messages that you like within your feed.
5. Start asking questions on your wall. These questions should be related to your industry. By asking questions you'll start to see more engagement from your "target friends".
6. After a week of engaging more heavily on Facebook you should start seeing more friend requests. Instead of turning away people you don't know, accept them as they could be a reader or your website or a potential customer of your product/service.
7. At this point you should be posting information about your company 30% of the time. But, again, don't hard sell your product... only do soft pitches.
8. After you spend a month or so building up your Facebook and Twitter presence it shouldn't be hard to get at least a few thousand visitors to your website just from these 2 traffic sources.
And that's all there is to it. It's not rocket science (anyone telling you otherwise is trying real hard to sell you something).
Building on that, the REAL key is to understand how social media fits into your overall traffic strategy.
And that's what I will explain tomorrow.
And let's not forget, If you'd like to be considered to hire me to help you with your online marketing, apply at http://wordofmouyhmarketting.com I'll be selecting a company shortly.
CraigWSeaton@yahoo.com
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