How To Write Content That Shows Up In Search Results

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How To Write Content That Shows Up In Search Results

How do you write content for your blog that will get you a good ranking in search results? As a small business, I don’t have the man-power to write article after article related to certain keywords that I want my site to show up for in search results. Certain keywords are just not attainable. Here’s what I mean; the keywords … Read More

How to Create Successful Blog Post Titles

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How to write successful blog post titles

When Peter Merholz of Peterme.com first coined the term “blog” in 1999, as CNET reports, he probably did not know he was creating a name for a new writing platform, one that would have fingers in marketing and information technology. Whether it’s a personal blog, a business blog or a web-based journal article, Internet writing requires engaging titles that are designed to … Read More

Anatomy of a Good Blog Post

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What is the anatomy of a good blog post? A great title Here’s the trick, you need to make it witty enough and interesting enough to entice someone to click on it, but also not obscure enough that people won’t find it when they are searching for it. If you are going to rely purely on it being shared online … Read More

7 Reasons Why Businesses Should Blog

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7 Reasons Why Businesses Should Blog

Businesses Should Blog Here are 7 reasons why businesses should blog: Search Engines like fresh content, so you’ll be more likely to come up when people search for your products or services It adds value to your site and an opportunity for you to engage with people who are looking for what you provide It is the beginning of the … Read More

SEO Your Website

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How to SEO Your Website

This is the second step of a 6 step series for setting up your site to work with Inbound Marketing. For more information, read this introduction post. What do you need to do to SEO your website? It is a pretty large task to SEO your website if you have a decent number of pages. Like all things that are a … Read More

How to do an Online Competitor Analysis

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Competitor Analysis - A great way to see where you are at in comparison to your peers

This is the first step of a 6 step series for setting up your site to work with Inbound Marketing. For more information, read this introduction post. Step 1: Do an online competitor analysis! What is an online competitor analysis? An online competitor analysis is a survey of what your competitors are doing online. It is a grade of their … Read More

Inbound Marketing [intro]

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Inbound Marketing – Introduction Inbound marketing is the process of getting people to come to your website from where they are online. If they are searching for what you do or what you sell, they need to find you. If they are browsing a blog or site that is relevant to your business, they need to see your ads. The … Read More

5 Things Your Website Should Do

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5 Things Your Website Should Do - Purpose - Direction

5 Things Your Website Should Do What is the purpose of a website? Why should you have one? If you are a business, you probably want a website to be findable online and let people read about your products or services. But, you really shouldn’t sell yourself short on your website. If you are going to go to the trouble … Read More

RSS Campaigns with Mailchimp [How-To]

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How to Add Images to your RSS Campaigns with MailChimp So I just ran into an interesting problem with a client who does a Daily Digital Drawing on her iPad and sends it out to over 100 people via email each day. So we decided to set her up with MailChimp to do the mailing to reduce the amount of … Read More

5 Types of Videos to have on Your Website

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5 Types of Videos to Have on Your Website

Video is becoming more and more important to businesses when marketing to people on the web. We’ve gathered information from across the web and from our experiences with marketing to give you 5 types of videos to have on your website to promote your business. Video can do a lot of things for your business: It can bring lots of … Read More