Hoping to cash in on a new product launch? You might want to do more than simply feature the product on your home page. Mike Faith, president/CEO of business-to-business merchant Headsets.com, says his company has benefited by using microsites to sell new products.

As the worlds of web design and SEO merge ever closer, we’ve been seeing design-specific elements produce a positive impact on SEO for the sites that employ them. It’s terrific news for SEOs who love design and are capable of and passionate about making it part of their repertoire. It’s also great for designers who find that as they evolved from Flash designs to machine-readable CSS and separated markup from content, they’ve earned more links and more organic search love.

I was on the phone with a B2B software marketer discussing the difficulty of keeping sales from trying to “sell” to any lead they could get their hands on-regardless of their degree of sales readiness. While I appreciate the sales team’s enthusiasm, restraint can be a good thing.

WordPress is inherently fast, and that’s why so many professional bloggers call it their choice platform.