Check out LinkedIn’s Publishing Options Okay, all of you that have published LinkedIn raise your virtual hands… That’s what I thought. Very few consider this when deciding where to publish content, and in point of fact, that’s a big mistake. Now that it is open to the all users, it’s still something of an afterthought among content marketers. This is …
How to Do SEO for Content Marketing
Check Out the Basics of SEO for Content Marketing There is a lot of talk about SEO for content marketing lately, and quite often it is based on how they are at odds: it’s one or the other. Without content there is really no need for SEO, and without SEO your content is relegated to the nether-reaches of the search …
What you need to know about startup funding
Before You Go After Startup Funding, Ask Yourself These Questions At some point you’re likely going to need startup funding for small business, and if you’re like most of us, you haven’t a clue as to the sort of questions you’ll need answers to, both for your business and for your potential investors. Potential investors will want to know your …
How to Build Blog Traffic
How to Build Blog Traffic If you wish to use your business blog to expand and engage your audience, you’re going to have to find ways to develop the blog traffic to a point where someone other than your immediate family is reading it, am I right? Done correctly, a business blog will have a multi-faceted benefit to your business. …
How to Create a Winning Marketing Plan for your Small Business
See What Goes into a Marketing Plan for your Small Business Often when we’re starting out with a new business venture it’s all too easy to be tempted into a Ready, Fire, Aim mindset, leaving the planning for later if ever. It’s our hope to talk you into restraining that enthusiasm just a tad while you take the time to …
How to Develop Traffic Sources for Your Site
Choose the Right Kind of Traffic Sources for Your Site You’ve likely heard it or said it a million times, “I can’t get enough web traffic!” When you begin to realize that there are hundreds of tactics to drive web traffic to your pages, you often jump on the cheapest and fastest strategy you can find, in the hopes that …
See What’s New in Local SEO and 7 Ways to Make it Better!
Enhance your Local SEO with These 7 Great Tips There’s little doubt that it takes some work to stay up with all the changes surrounding Local SEO these days. Since Google has publicly admitted they make between 500 to 600 changes to the search algorithm every year, it’s no wonder people sometimes throw their hands up in frustration when trying …
Choosing Between SEO Title tag and Clickworthy Headline
How to Reconcile SEO Title Tag and Clickworthy Headline There is often a tug of war going on in the battle between effectively optimizing your SEO title tag and the need to craft a killer clickworthy headline that gets massive amounts of clicks. This is a genuine concern, and often the answer lies in what your main purpose is for …
How to Market Your Business on Instagram
Check Out If Instagram is a Good Fit for your Business If you know any teenagers, or even anyone under thirty, you know that Instagram has taken over the world. Not only that, but Facebook recently recognized this as well, and acquired the company. And even though this may seem like a ripe opportunity for marketers, (it is) there are …
Hazelnut Coffee Expert – Rudy Labordus
So just as a fun experiment I wanted to see how fast a google hangout can help rank an article. For this test I’m picking a pretty random phrase that my wife picked for me this morning “Hazelnut Coffee Expert“. All the research I’ve done seems to indicate that I’ll be on page 1 within minutes (yep you heard right …
