As small business owners move through the here we go again feelings to actually decide what to do in response to Penguin 2013, sorting out the truth is paramount. The arrival of Penguin 2013 has many small business owners scared and confused.
It's also found a niche with small business owners who need to improve their optimization, but may not have the budget for a full SEO firm. Jones then walks you through how to create and link up your Google+ business page for optimizing for local SEO.
Nearly every business today must decide how much to spend on search engine optimization (SEO). A tiny percentage of business owners or professionals have the skill and savvy to do their own SEO. Even so, comprehensive SEO takes way more time than...
And each time, attendees of the leading global event series about search and social marketing learned brand new lessons from the small company in Utah that had used YouTube to build a multi-million dollar business.
Small business that are growing fast, like the INC 500, should definitely upgrade their newsrooms. First, I'd hold a brown bag lunch and invite somebody from both groups to explain why collaboration and cooperation between the departments will...
For small business owners, the discussion is much more practical and alarming. Specifically, small business websites do on-site SEO poorly or not at all, leaving large amounts of search traffic and potential customers on the table.
It’s important that business owners understand social is a broad communication medium in use by their customers. If they dislike you, we may still want to show you, but it may coincide with negative searches about your business, reinforcing the...
In the wake of Panda and Penguin, many webmasters and small business owners have come to realize that great content is an important foundation of an effective online marketing strategy. Be sure to include share buttons on your website’s puzzle page...
Marketers have a variety of targeting options to use to connect with LinkedIn’s 175 million members, including 7.9 million business decision-makers, 1.3 million small business owners and 4.2 million corporate executives.
A strategy of going with one business line or category, selected by country and its potential ROI or other performance story. For example a single product set for a retail organization or a single Business Lines’ product suite for financial...
Success and value based metrics: This is every metric that measures success as defined by you and your business – goals, business outcome, sales, conversions such as downloads, bounce rate – revenue and return.
Where once business owners and marketers had to consider whether it was worth the hassle of managing both a Bing paid campaign (for the significantly lower traffic they yield over Google) and also make the same call on managing a Yahoo paid...
Most small business owners are savvy enough to know that 70 percent of their search engine rankings are the result of backlinks. This is especially frustrating for small business owners who don't have the time or resources to stay current in, what...
SEO professionals, small business owners, and even so-called digital marketing consultants all have a lot of excuses about why they aren’t testing. It’s the single most neglected discipline (just ahead of user experience) within the search industry...
However, the white elephant in the room is the group of con men who put up SEO placards, print SEO business cards, pretend to be an SEO practitioner, and take money from unsuspecting clients, who like children playing house pretend to be what they...
But small business owners do themselves a huge disservice by failing to adopt the well-known best practices in email marketing simply because it’s not new. Once operationalized, small business owners will find that launching social, local, SEO and...
While this would certainly be easier to implement than any of the existing microformats, I’m still skeptical that most business owners with websites would be able to create the file correctly and know how to add it to the root directory of their...
This is counter-intuitive and many small business owners fall prey to hype. Small business owners often feel under-qualified to evaluate vendors. Know what is being proposed and buy what the small business really needs.
With such a strong emphasis on specific SEO mechanics and tactics, it’s easy for small business owners to lose the forest for the trees. Branded traffic are visitors that either directly type in a domain name or use a search engine to find a...
Unfortunately, it seems the small business owners featured in the piece don’t truly understand why their search rankings fell. A post earlier this week, “SEO, Why You Are Doing it Wrong,” attempted to educate SMB owners about search engine...
