The Top 11 Orthodox Jewish Websites in the World

The Jewish web has being growing fast in the past 5 years, and that includes in the Orthodox sector.
Since I receive many queries from people interested in this sector, I decided to create a list of the top sites in various niches of this market. The list has three purposes:

To help businesses who are searching [...]

Times of Israel Bloggers: Are You Getting Paid?

Have you ever been to a conference that cost $2.5 million to stage?
I have… just last week.
The Israeli President’s Conference in Jerusalem, known as the “Tomorrow” conference, was a dazzling no-expense-spared spectacle; a star-studded whos-who of Israel, the Jewish world and beyond. The conference organizers actively courted bloggers such as myself to attend the event, [...]

99 VIPs in One Day: My Take on Kishor Conference 2012

If you’re like most people, this is what you do when you’re considering going to a conference…
You spend time looking over the program, the speakers and the topics, and these are the main factors that helps you decide whether to attend. Am I right?
The problem with this is that is overlooks the fact that while [...]

Is Your Website Clean for Pesach?

During a recent Website cleaning spree, I found a giant glob of chametz. But getting rid of it wasn’t so simple!
Picture this: Seder night has arrived.
The whole house is spotless: the curtains have been dry-cleaned; the linen closet organized alphabetically; and the kids’ bikes doused with bleach.
The only problem is that in the dining room, [...]

What Works Better than Advertising?

Are you running a web business on a budget?
Are you struggling to get Exposure? Traffic? Customers? Sales?
It sounds like you are stuck in the old small-business Catch 22 – without advertising you can’t grow but if you don’t grow, you can’t afford advertising.
Yet consider the words of Robert Stephens, founder of GeekSquad:
If I had had [...]

Israel’s Government Just Gave Me This Free Website

Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Employment today announced that it will be giving small businesses in Israel free websites, including domain name, use of an easy website builder tool, and free web hosting for a year.
The initiative, entitled “Asakim Online” (Businesses Online), has the mission “to grant 20,000 small businesses like yours the necessary [...]

Google, You are Not God

Do you ever get the feeling that some mighty power is looking over your shoulder, policing everything you do?
That’s kind of how I felt on Sunday when I attended SMX Israel, a lively and informative Web Marketing conference in Jerusalem.
Along with 350 others, I took dutiful notes as every expert on the podium talked about [...]

5 Ways to Sell More Books: A Guide for Jewish Authors

The Jewish people have long been called the People of the Book.
Apparently that was referring to the Book of Books, but nowadays it also brings to mind the burgeoning Jewish publishing industry. Mainstream publishers are in major crisis, due to the impact of emerging technologies on our reading habits. Yet in the Jewish world, the print publishing [...]

Can Jewish Websites Make Money?

We all love our web sites! We pour our blood, sweat, tears, bank accounts and prayers into them!
With G-d’s help, traffic gradually increases, our mailing list grows and our brand is established.
And then, at a certain point, we begin to wonder: Hey! When am I going to make some money out of this? Like real, [...]

The Halachas of Facebook and Google: A Rabbi and a Web Marketer Discuss

As an Orthodox Jewish Web Marketer, I find myself with many involved questions about my Internet usage. Last week I sat down with my rabbi and asked him all my hard questions about working on the Web, Social Media and Halacha.