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eCommerce Workshop: From Brick and Mortar to eCommerce (Selling Online)
Apr 13th
Free eCommerce Workshop: From Brick and Mortar to eCommerce (Selling Online)
eCommerce Workshop: From “Brick and Mortar” to eCommerce (Selling Online)
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 9, 5:30-7:30
Presenter: Charles S. Mombo, MSMIS, MBA
Format: Teaching Workshop
Location: Chicago Bee Library, 3647 South State street, Chicago, 60609
Audience: Business owners, Bloggers, WordPress users and General Public
TOPICS:
Business Start-Up
JOBS (Jump-Start Our Business Start-Up) Act
Forms of Businesses (C-Corp, S-Corp, LLC, LLC Series, L3C)
Pros/Cons
How to Incorporate your business
eCommerce
Types of eCommerce
Transferring Your “Brick and Mortar” to an eCommerce Storefront
Social Media and does it really generate customer traffic?
Types of Social Media
Advertising
Promoting
Branding
Marketing
Search Engine Optimization
You have a website but why aren’t you getting “LOTS” of traffic? Search Engine Optimization (overview)
How to analyze your website with FREE Google tools
*Seats are limited to the first 60 participants!!!!!!!! Participant are encouraged to “LIKE” WWClick and share this event with their Facebook and Twitter network!
It’s OK to talk about us (Back Channel)! Please tweet the following phrase:
“I’m attending @wwclick #wordpress #SEO #ecommerce #smallbiz #workshop with @charlessmombo”
(Word-for-word, please remove the quotes prior to tweeting)!
Re-Elect Patricia Horton for Commissioner of MWRD of Greater Chicago joins the Twitterverse
Jan 13th
By: Charles S. Mombo
#wwclick, @wwclick, @CharlesSMombo
Re-Elect Patricia Horton for Commissioner of MWRD of Greater Chicago joins the Twitterverse
The March 20th campaign to Re-Elect Patricia Horton for Commissioner of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago has officially joined the millions of people around the world who tweet.
Patricia Horton's handle, @PatriciaHorton1, will be managed day-to-day by WWCLICK.com, Inc., a Social Media Marketing and Search Engine Optimization Consultant firm. Most of her tweets will be generated by her campaign staff. The tweets she personally sends will be signed with a “-ph” at the end.
When tweeting or retweeting about Patricia Horton for Commissioner of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, please include any or all of the following handles/hashtags: @PatriciaHorton1, #PatriciaHorton1, #Chicago, #MWRD, Election2012 and Chicago2012.
Please share this with your friends/family and follow Commissioner Patricia Horton on Twitter, Facebook and on PatriciaHorton.net!!!
Patricia Horton Friday Social Media Marketing Campaign Day
Jan 13th
By: Charles S. Mombo
#wwclick, #FlashMobB2C, @wwclick, @CharlesSMombo
Patricia Horton Friday Social Media Marketing Campaign Day
In an effort to help increase brand awareness of Patricia Horton, and the Re-Election of Patricia Horton for Commissioner of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago campaign, for the March 20, 2012 election, I am suggesting an each-one-reach-one event – “Patricia Horton Friday Social Media Marketing Campaign Day”.
What does an each-one-reach-one “Patricia Horton Friday Social Media Marketing Campaign Day” mean, you might ask? A Social Media Marketing Campaign is a movement beyond Retail Political Campaign and Wholesale Political Campaign and into the utilization of social media, such as social networking and social bookmarking.
Patricia’s outstanding record at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRDGC) is no secret; it speaks for itself and must be told to informed voters. The problem is; MWRDGC commissioner is an elected position and most people are not aware of that. Patricia’s outstanding efforts in giving back to the community speak volumes. Candidates such as Patricia who are above the political pettiness does not subscribe to the idea of being rewarded because of her political connections. Let's Re-Electing Patricia Horton, a proven leader, for Commissioner of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on March 20th.
Please do not do Patricia any favors, all I ask is that you share her bio with a few of your social media friends and let it speak for itself. Just copy the URL link (http:// full link) of this article and put it on your Facebook wall, under “Link” and share with your Facebook friends. Also, don’t forget to share this link on your other social medial sites such as Digg.com, Stumbleupon.com, Twitter.com and Delicious.com. DO IT NOW!
As a Commissioner, Patricia is responsible for writing policies and procedures that protect the health and safety of Cook County residents, protecting the quality and water supply source from Lake Michigan along with approving a budget of 1 billion dollars annually. In addition, she implemented procedures for proper disposal of prescriptions and over the counter medicines.
Click on Patricia’s BIOGRAPHY and allow her hard work at MWRDGC to speak for itself.
C & J Auto Repair and Rebuilder Campaign
Jan 12th
C & J Auto Repair and Rebuilder Campaign
The Challenge: Promote and generate online buzz for C & J Auto Repair and Rebuilder’s upcoming promotions; for “auto repair 60628,” and “autorepair 60628” to appear in Google’s results for generic queries; engage, promote and generate online buzz for online communities by exposing C & J brand awareness to new and prospective customers; setup email client using Thunderbird.
Execution
- Site design, developed and executed in conjunction with SeeMombo™ and FlashMobB2C™.
- Facilitated and search engine optimized keywords “auto repair 60628” and “autorepair 60628” to appear in among the first ten listing within Google’s results for generic queries out of 2.5 results.
- Managed and monitored C & J Auto Repair Rebuilder’s Twitter handle and Facebook Fan Page.
- Posted an article in Autoshop.name announcing the launched of C & J Auto Repair and Rebuilder’s website.
- Posted an article in ChocolateCity.cc announcing the launched of C & J Auto Repair and Rebuilder’s website. Chocolatecity.cc has a monthly impression of 2.2 millions clicks.
- Increased Google’s PageRank to 2 out of a total of 10.
- Submitted press releases to the 10 most popular social bookmarking and social networking websites; which includes Stumbleupon.com, Delicious.com, and Digg.com.
- Enhanced C & J Auto Repair Rebuilder’s online presence and relevance by building and maintaining a branded Twitter hashtag – #CandJAutoShop.
- Search Engine Optimization of relevant keywords pertaining to auto repair shops in the 60628 and Chicago area.
- Leveraged existing WWClick relationships, reaching well beyond the traditional conventional campaigning market, including online influencers in Political, Technology and Marketing communities.
Results
- Nearly 15,000 unique monthly visitors viewed online placements and messages totaling over 35,000 online impressions.
- Secured influential online placements in notable blogs which include Chocolatecity.cc, HairNations.com and BronzevilleLive.com.
- CandJAutoShop.com received thousands of visitors to the site with approximately 25% clicking through to watch.
Learn More
- Visit C & J Auto Shop’s website at C & J Auto Repair.
- Visit C & J Auto Shop’s Facebook page.
- Visit C & J Auto Shop’s Twitter page.
Re-Elect Commissioner Patricia Horton for MWRD of Greater Chicago Campaign
Jan 12th
Re-Elect Commissioner Patricia Horton for MWRD of Greater Chicago Campaign
The Challenge: Engage, promote and generate online buzz for online communities by increasing brand awareness of Patricia Horton’s Re-Election campaign for Commissioner of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago campaign.
Execution
- Site design, developed and executed in conjunction with SeeMombo™ and FlashMobB2C™. Facilitated 12 placements across a variety of Greater Chicago websites targeting Women, Families, African-Americans, Young and New Voters.
- Managed and monitored Patricia Horton’s Twitter handle and Facebook Fan Page.
- Conducted a Question/Answer interview with Patricia Horton for ChocolateCity.cc. A website with a monthly average of 2.2 million impressions.
- Submitted press releases to the 10 most popular social bookmarking and social networking websites; which includes Stumbleupon.com, Delicious.com, and Digg.com.
- Enhanced Patricia Horton’s online presence and relevance by building and maintaining a branded Twitter hashtag – #PatriciaHorton1.
- Search Engine Optimization of relevant keywords pertaining to Chicago Election 2012 and Commissioner of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
- Leveraged existing WWClick relationships, reaching well beyond the traditional conventional campaigning market, including online influencers in Political, Technology and Marketing communities.
Results
- Nearly 15,000 unique monthly visitors viewed online placements and messages totaling over 35,000 online impressions.
- WWClick secured 40 blog placements about PatriciaHorton.net and catalyzed 105 discussions through online message efforts and 155 conversations on Twitter.
- Secured influential online placements in notable blogs which include Chocolatecity.cc, HairNations.com and BronzevilleLive.com.
- PatriciaHorton.net received thousands of visitors to the site with approximately 15% clicking through to watch.
Learn More
- Visit Re-Elect Commissioner Patricia Horton’s website at PatriciaHorton.net.
- Visit Re-Elect Commissioner Patricia Horton’s Facebook page.
- Visit Re-Elect Commissioner Patricia Horton’s Twitter page.
WordPress Workshop: Using WordPress to Blog and Grow Your Business
Jul 19th
Who:
Charles S. Mombo/ Presenter
WWCLICK.COM, INC.
(312)-268-4152
When:
August 13, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Where:
Computer Training Institution of Chicago
1424 E. 53rd Street, Suite 206, Chicago, IL 60615
Back Channeling:
FOLLOW: wwclick
HASHTAG: #wwclick
Registration:
http://www.meetup.com/wwclick/
http://www.wwclick.com/payment/
Price:
Price: $100.00
Class-Size Limit: 20 ONLY
Attendees will be provided with a FREE 2GB USB flash drive and trained on the applications contained within the flash drive:
Open Office (word processor, spreadsheet, presentations with Microsoft compatibility)
Firefox (Browser)
Thunderbird (Email Client)
WinSCP (FTP Application)
7-Zip (File archiver and compressor)
GIMP (Photo and Image Editor)
KompoZer (webpage editor)
Notepad++ (text editor)
WordPress 3.2.1 or latest version
10 Most Popular WordPress Plugins
10 Most Popular WordPress Themes
Who should attend this hands-on workshop?
Students
Bloggers
Writers
Small business owners
e-Commerce shop builders
Web designers and developers
Non-profit organizations
WordPress users
Upon completion of the workshop, attendees should be able to:
Demonstrate an understanding of WordPress user interface.
An overview of the Open Source applications contain within the USB
Select a web hosting package and the usage of WinSCP, an FTP application
Download, install and upgrade WordPress
Demonstrate basic usage of .htaccess
Usage of WordPress plugins and themes
Learn about the 10 “MUST HAVE” WordPress plugins
Demonstrate knowledge in the use of WordPress in creating a “Post” and “Page”
Understand Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and increasing website traffic
Learn to use the 10 most popular Social Networking and Social Bookmarking applications
An overview of Analytic tools
About the workshop's presenter:
Charles S. Mombo
Charles holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, a Master of Science degree in Management Information Systems (MSMIS), and a Master degree in Business Administration (MBA). As an Adjunct Professor, he teaches Computer Science and Business classes at Malcolm X and Harold Washington Colleges.
He is the founder of WWCLICK.COM, INC., a business analysis, social media marketing and search engine optimization consulting company that specializes in gaining high positions for clients in search engine result pages and by optimizing chosen keywords and phrases. Through their network of websites, WWCLICK.COM, INC. introduces companies, their products, brands, or services to potential customers or clients.
Charles was recently invited by Columbia College and served as a panelist on their 2010 and 2011 Making Media Connections Conference. As a panelist, he served on two workshops: Pitching Bloggers and Influential Bloggers. He front-ends WordPress with an Open Source application for most of his sites for the sole purpose of monetization. Among his 150 websites are – http://www.ChocolateCity.cc and http://www.HairNations.com
10 WordPress Search Engine Optimization SEO Plugins
Apr 17th
By: Charles Mombo
@wwclick, #wwclick, Meetup.com/wwclick
Search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of one’s website in a search engine ranking.
WWCLICK.com. Inc. a Chicago based search engine optimization consulting
Search engine optimization is often about making small modifications to parts of your website. When viewed individually, these changes might seem like incremental improvements, but when combined with other optimizations, they could have a noticeable impact on your site's user experience and performance in organic search results. You're likely already familiar with many of the below bullet listed steps in this article, because they're essential ingredients for any web page, but you may not be making the most out of them.
The plugins listed below are not a “cure for all”. Lots of other components come into play when optimizing a website. As an example, to completely optimize a website, the following must be done:
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Follow Google’s, Bing’s and Yahoo’s guidelines.
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Create unique and accurate page titles
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Make use of the “descriptive” meta tag
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Make use of the “keyword” meta tag (I am aware that Google doesn’t use this but go ahead and add it for other Search Engines.)
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Use header tags appropriately
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Improve your site structures
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Use appropriate tags for your site images
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Appropriately resized unnecessarily large images on your site
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Make sure your site is easy to navigate
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Use sitemap.xml
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Use sitemap.html
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Use robots.txt
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Effectively use rel=”nofollow” for irrelevant links
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Utilize Bing, Google and Yahoo webmaster tools
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Submit your website to social networking and social bookmarking sites
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Effectively use Google's Analytics tools (In my opinion, this is one of the best things that happened since slice bread!)
Too often, this website receive unsolicited junk emails from scrupulous individuals promising an increase in search engine ranking. My advice to you is to click the “Spam,” or “Delete” bottom whenever you receive such crap! Following are some samples spam mails we received from abusers in the NetRange of: 122.0.0.0 – 122.255.255.255 and 59.0.0.0 – 59.255.255.255. Please note the abuse of gmail's email addresses and the mixed-matched in the names and the email addresses):
From:
Randall Tuttle
rachelle2311@gmail.comMessage:
Search Engine Marketing will increase your company’s online presence
through comprehensive online marketing campaigns, targeted search
engine optimization, and highly managed internet marketing promotions.
A search engine marketing campaign will encompass several procedures
and factors to make it successful. Please reply to this email so we
can send you more details.Sent from (ip address): 122.177.47.97
(ABTS-North-Dynamic-097.47.177.122.airtelbroadband.in)
From:
Carrie Cain
ceceliamaloney01@gmail.comMessage:
Want more clients and customers? We will help them find you by putting
you on the 1st page of Google. Email us back to get a full proposalSent from (ip address): 122.162.243.116
(ABTS-North-Dynamic-116.243.162.122.airtelbroadband.in)
From:
Lauren Ryan
lawrencebaxtersb@gmail.comMessage:
We will enable your website to achieve top positions across all major
search engines at a very affordable price. Please send us URL of the
site you wish to increase traffic for, and we will get back to you
with all the details.Sent from (ip address): 122.177.114.227
(ABTS-North-Dynamic-227.114.177.122.airtelbroadband.in)
The following search engine optimization related plugins are listed in no particular order. Additionally, there are several other great ones out there; but due to limited, this article will address only ten of the ones that I have used.
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WordPress SEO by Yoast – The most complete all in one SEO solution for your WordPress blog. This plugin has a huge list of features.
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SEO Ultimate – This all-in-one SEO plugin gives you control over title tags, noindex, meta tags, slugs, canonical, autolinks, 404 errors, rich snippets, and more.
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Platinum SEO Pack – Platinum SEO Plugin offers Complete onsite SEO solution for your WordPress blog. Platinum SEO Plugin offers all the functionalities of All In One SEO package.
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SEO Smart Links - SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
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SEO Title Tag - Search engine optimize your blog's title tags. Mass edit the title tags of posts, pages, category pages, tag pages – indeed, any URL!
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SEO Friendly Images - SEO Friendly Images automatically adds alt and title attributes to all your images. Improves traffic from search engines and makes the image tags W3C/.
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Dagon Design Sitemap Generator - A highly customizable sitemap generator plugin for your WordPress powered site.
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Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines to better index your blog.
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XML Sitemap & Google News Sitemap Feeds - Feeds that comply with the XML Sitemap and Google News protocol for fast indexing by Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask and others. Multi-Site and Multi-Lingual.
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Keyword Statistics – This SEO plugin checks the content of posts/pages for the keyword density (single/phrases) while writing and is automatically setting the META-tags.
Google patched algorithms loophole after abuse
Mar 2nd
By: Charles S. Mombo
Search Engine Optimization consultant
Reacting to a November 28, 2010, New York Times (NYTimes) article titled, “A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web,” Google's Fellow, Amit Singhal wrote a blog post titled "Being bad to your customers is bad for business”.
According to the NYTimes article, an online eyeglass vendor, DecorMyEyes, increased their website's rankings in Google search by being deliberately rude and disrespectful to their customers. The innumerable complaints from DecorMyEyes' customers led to the writing of several articles about DecorMyEyes, which eventually were converted to Internet traffic and improved rankings.
Based on Google's loophole of inadvertently rewarding websites for rude behavior, they came up with a tweak to their algorithms to prevent rewarding bad behavior.
According to Singhal, “We can't say for sure that no one will ever find a loophole in our ranking algorithms in the future. We know that people will keep trying: attempts to game Google’s ranking, like the ones mentioned in the article, go on 24 hours a day, every single day. That’s why we cannot reveal the details of our solution—the underlying signals, data sources, and how we combined them to improve our rankings—beyond what we’ve already said. We can say with reasonable confidence that being bad to customers is bad for business on Google. And we will continue to work hard towards a better search.”
"We developed an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience," Singhal said. "The solution is already live."
"I am here to tell you that being bad is, and hopefully will always be, bad for business in Google's search results," Singhal added.
As recent as February 24, 2011, Singhal and Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer wrote a blog post titled “Finding more high-quality sites in search”. In their post, they added, “…in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on,” “This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.”
So, exactly what was the big algorithmic improvement to Google's ranking? Don't hold your breath, because Google has declined to provide details of changes to its algorithms so as not to provide information to search engine optimization consultants or social media marketing consultants who may attempt to game their ranking on the search engine.
