Branding and Inbound Marketing: Can YOU Handle the TRUTH?

by November 7, 2011

While talking to a friend of mine the other day – small business owner trying to grow her business like anyone else -, I had that line going through my head. You know, the one from A Few Good Men “You want the TRUTH? You can’t HANDLE the TRUTH!” You see, my friend has big dreams; she wants and expects big things from her website…

When Your Business Grows, Remember the Little People

by July 7, 2011

When a person becomes successful, it seems like suddenly they’re too busy dealing with the higher echelons to take time out for the “little people”. It’s something that’s always bugged us. It was all fine and dandy for you to respond to comments and whatnot when you were a little guy, but now that you’re big…

No Time to Write Thought-Provoking Blogs? Try Content Curation

by May 2, 2011

Content curation? Not content creation? Even the word processor we use thinks the word is spelled wrong. However, content curation has been around for quite awhile. As content developers and a business with a blog, we know it’s hard to keep up with the constant need for fresh articles. After posting umpteenth hundred posts, everybody has at least one experience with the whole “What do I write about NOW” question. Usually, this happens only a day or two before the next one post is due to come out.

4 Lessons for Creating a SEO Content Treasure Trove

by July 26, 2010

Let’s face it; writing engaging, entertaining works of art to awe humanity is a crapshoot. Sometimes you hit the bull’s eye; most times, you aren’t even close to the target first time around. The readers are calling, though; your fans are waiting. What do you do? If you have a treasure trove of SEO content, you dig into it. If you don’t have one, it’s time to build one – and fast.

How To Compete In The Blog World

by December 22, 2009

So, you have your own blog now…you’ve been updating it regularly, but you’re still not generating the traffic or the responses you want. Why not? Well, there can be a number of reasons why you are not getting the desired results from your blog. Let me assure you that we all have that problem, unless, [...]

Clicks to Your Website: An In-depth Review of Link Building Methods

by November 21, 2008

Links are a good way to raise your Google rankings, bringing clicks to your website.  How many links you need depends on your key phrase competition (the number of sites using the same key phrase) and the quality of those links. To get an idea of how many links your website requires to raise your [...]

Blogs, Articles, Press Releases and SEO

by October 23, 2008

What do blogs, articles, press releases and search engine optimization all have in common? Your Internet business will die a lonely death without them. Blogs, articles and press releases are all part of any functional comprehensive search engine optimization program. SEO isn’t about using technical tricks in order to seem more relevant. Instead, SEO is [...]

Blogs and What They Can Do

by October 17, 2008

Everybody and their dog seems to have a blog these days. I even know someone who set up a blog for his cat, I kid you not. Blogs seem to be the new way for the immense populace of the Internet to tell us things about themselves nobody ever wanted to know. In the vast [...]

The 12 Steps of SEO

by October 5, 2008

Plenty of people don’t really get how to do search engine optimization. Even a lot of the professional SEO specialists out there are so caught up in their mathematical manipulations that they forget the basics.  There are twelve steps to doing solid, long lasting SEO, and they’re not all that hard. Step 1: Do a [...]

How to Effectively Increase More Traffic to Your Website

by August 11, 2008

The basic detail that any website owner looks for is how to effectively increase traffic to their website. New web pages are uploaded almost every minute, and on the Internet it’s all about where your page ranks on Google or the other major search engines. Due to this competition, your efforts require intensive planning, research [...]