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There's nothing more important in this business. Is the site owner's contact info listed? Find the webmaster or blog owner's name. Because you're going to represent yourself as a real human being and put in the time and effort, you want to make...
It's a high-leverage activity, even for the business owner. I think it's up to each retailer to realize that they're in business to make money. The problem with that one is that that's going to continue being a problem for your business if you don...
My client (the small business owner) explained the situation to the vice president in detail, while I explained more about Penguin, unnatural links, etc. And for the business owner, his poor WOT score was just the tip of the iceberg.
But to the average small business owner these constant changes are mystifying or even maddening. Faced with the realization that SEO has the strongest ROI, small business marketers often come to the conclusion that they just need to do SEO faster.
If you're trying to monitor thousands of keywords then yes, of course you do, but if you're a small business owner interested in a few top terms, a simple spreadsheet and some daily manual glances at the SERPs is all you need.
A local small business owner reached out to me last month explaining that the company’s website wasn't performing well. Those weren’t necessarily problems that needed to be fixed… they were small business opportunities.
Invite a few business leaders from the area around your shop and ask them if they'd like to host some of your shop's artworks for a month or so at a time. Create content on your site that showcases each business owner, details about the business...
This may be a small business owner or they just have way too many accounts to work on. The Small Business Owner The Small Business Owner knows he needs to be appearing where his customer searches, thinks he is pretty tech savvy because he has the...
SEO professionals, small business owners, and even so-called digital marketing consultants all have a lot of excuses about why they aren’t testing. Yes, this probably all sounds pretty technical for the average website owner.
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...
In order for you to remain around (be you in-house marketer, business owner, inexperienced college grad or advertising agency), you must prepare for the future – now. Companies will create truly accountable business goals that can be integrated...
A small business owner may be comparing a standalone SEO proposal with an integrated online presence pitch that includes SEO, PPC, social media, and local map optimization. So how does a small business owner know a good SEM proposal from a bad one?
But what about your average small business owner or, as I like to say, what about my mom? I'd contact the local universities and let them know that I was open for business and that students could get a 10 percent discount on a two night stay when...
As a small business owner myself, I know that’s hard to do…but, often, it’s the right thing to do. Let’s all do our part by walking away from business that we shouldn’t take. In that time, I have seen every angle and talked to just about every type...
Lots of friendships and business relationships are formed from a simple bold "hi. Link to your site on your business cards that you will naturally give out at industry events. Sponsor a meetup or dinner where you invite your closest business...
One of the most important factors for any online business. It starts out small and then builds up over time. So my initial audience came purely through word of mouth and building that subscriber base one person at a time.
Increasingly, people are genuinely interested in getting their business involved in social media but they're afraid that they would be wasting their time with Facebook marketing. You see, whether Facebook bites the dust in 6 months or 10 years, it...
Jonathan Allen wrote an excellent post covering what happened to one small business site that for two years has been deriving its ranking by using mainly black hat SEO tactics – from article spinning, buying links, forced anchor text, to inbound...
If you’re a small business owner who is relying on Google for a living, it’s now much harder to avoid shortcuts. Unfortunately, it seems the small business owners featured in the piece don’t truly understand why their search rankings fell.
They know they should be more active online but need time to actually run their business. Odden has been blogging as a business owner for more than eight years and he understands the challenges in regular content creation.
