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The most desired action (MDA) is the reason you're on-line and getting visitors to perform the MDA, regardless of what it is, takes some understanding of both site architecture and human nature. Improve the odds that the MDA is accomplished with these easy-to-implement tips.

You may have a great looking web site and still crash and burn. Site profitability is more than just a factor of type font and color motif. If you want a profitable site (who doesn't?) you'll have to consider these critical factors.

Whether you're new to the e-commerce realm or an old vet, it's important to know what you don't know and when to let your site designer take charge.

A landing page has a specific purpose — to initiate the most desired action (MDA). Here's how you can create landing pages that deliver the MDAs you're looking for.

Your site's information architecture is intended to enhance visitors' on-site experience, making it easier for them to find what they're looking for, and gently directing them around the site. Here are some "must-haves" on refining the organization of your site's content.

There are plenty of SEO strategies that actually work against making a sale. If your site isn't eyeball optimized (EBO) it isn't optimized, period. Remember, no search engine ever bought anything on-line.

SEO spam is any tactic that attempts to corrupt or undermine a search engine's result pages by inflating a site's ranking. If you don't know about SEO spam, you don't know what could hurt you.

Step 1 in getting noticed on-line is search engine promotion – creating a site that SEs can weigh accurately and index to your specifications. Here's how.