Monthly Archives: November 2009

SMO Tips

So you have a business, a great website, and now you want to jump on the twitter-facebook-digg-etc.-bandwagon. After all, how hard could it be? I’m sure that’s what the majority of wide-eyed and hopeful business owners/entrepreneurs think when they start…

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There Are No Secrets

I’m continually amazed at offers that go something like this: “learn the SEO secrets of how you can drive 1000′s of customers to your website at $0 cost to you”. While I’m confident you don’t believe in the zero cost…

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Writing Emotional Web Copy

We have all read the same cliché web copy. It is generic, unimaginative, and not personalized to fit the target market.

What happens when suddenly the words stand out and what is written on the page is the solution to the customers’ problems, needs, or situation- while saying it all so perfectly? This is the goal of every copywriter. Continue reading

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Funny Facebook Statuses

Social media seems to be the buzz word in the business world lately. There are so many things to stay caught up with. Facebook, Twitter, blogs and the list goes on and on. Social media marketing services are a key…

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Reputation Management Matters

Why should reputation management matter to you? Let’s look at it this way: Erase from your mind the idea that Google is a search engine. Pretend Google is NOT a search engine. Rather, see it as a reputation management tool….

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Who Shouldn’t Use Pay Per Click Marketing?

Is that even a question? World wide, there are over 300 million online searches performed each day. The majority of those being performed on either Google, Bing, or Yahoo. Each of those three search engines allow anyone to advertise on…

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Get Google to Crawl Your Site More Often

So you have your site up and running. Now you want Google to crawl your site. Here are some tips on how to get Google crawlers to your site on a regular basis. -Update content on a regular basis. Try…

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Getting Traffic and Boosting your Rankings with a Contest

One thing to think about when starting a new website is how to bring people to your site. This is where having a contest or give away can really be effective. Since you don’t rank on the search engines yet…

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Site Speed: A New Ranking Factor

Google employee, Matt Cutts, announced that a new ranking factor will be contributing strongly to Google’s algorithms sometime in 2010. The new ranking factor deals with how fast, or slow, a site loads. Cutts explained that Google wanted searching to…

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Tips on Choosing a Domain Name

Keep SEO in mind when choosing the domain name of your website. Whether you are building a new site or just refurbishing an old one, the domain name is an important key to having an optimized and easily findable website. Continue reading

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