Keyword Research – Better Run for the Hills
Do you shudder when someone says you need to put more focus on your keyword research? Does the mere thought of doing keyword research evoke feelings of pain, like having to do your homework? If you’re like some of the small businesses that I work with, if someone has to remind you one more time [...]
20 Blog Post Ideas for your Small Business Blog
Generating traffic is one of the top reasons that you want to establish a blog for your small business. And not just any traffic, you want to generate targeted traffic. We’ve talked about some of the SEO techniques for your business blog that you want to follow, but at the foundation of your small business [...]
Business Blog Website – Should I Start Over?
Once we help our clients understand the power and leverage a blog offers their business, one of the first questions that comes up is “I already have a web site for my business. Should I start over with a blog?” To begin with, many of our small business clients are struggling with their website. That’s [...]
SEO For Blogs – Content Is King
One of the more frequent problems we encounter with our clients seeking help to achieve better web site results is simply “not enough content“. When it comes to web site marketing, you’ve probably heard the over-used phrase “content is king“. It’s a fact! Just as a real estate broker hammers home the repetitive message “location, [...]
SEO for Blogs – The White Hats vs. the Black Hats
The SEO practice that uses unethical techniques and tricks to artificially improve the search engine rankings of a website is considered to be “Black Hat” SEO. There’s a lot to gain achieving top rankings in the search engines. For businesses that depend on search engine traffic, a lot can be at stake. So no surprise [...]
SEO For Blogs – How Do You Acquire Backlinks?
We covered the basics of off-page optimization in the previous post “SEO For Blogs – Off-Page Optimization“. In this next post, we’ll explore how you go about acquiring backlinks. So how do you actually get backlinks placed on other websites? OK, the importance of backlinks is starting to make sense. But how are you supposed [...]
SEO For Blogs – Off-Page Optimization
In a recent post, SEO For Blogs – Strike The Right Balance“, we talked about the importance of SEO for blogs and covered some of the basics for on-page optimization that you want to follow. In this next post, we’re going to cover the all-important off-page optimization. In a nutshell, off-page optimization refers to backlinks [...]
SEO For Blogs – Strike The Right Balance
One of the primary reasons we’re seeing an uptrend in business blogs is the promise of generating more traffic. If attracting more traffic from the search engines is a top priority for you, just how important is SEO for blogs? Even though blogging software such as WordPress helps you produce pretty good SEO friendly content [...]