Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 2, 2014

If you’ve ever been stuck on a blog post idea and didn’t know what to write about, then you might have been tempted to steal someone else’s idea. That said, here are 3 ways you can steal blog post ideas without getting into trouble. Don’t click through and read the articles. Then, rewrite the headline.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 14, 2014

There’s a raging debate in Internet marketing circles about long vs. short articles. On the other hand, advocates for multiple short blog posts over a period of time argue that the number of pages increases your opportunities for better search engine marketing and therefore give you more search rankings with increased traffic.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 10, 2014

I’m going to share with you three very popular ways to create a list for publishing to your blog and tell you what the advantages are to each type of list. Listicles - Let’s say you want to write an article. You can use your list items as subheads for each section of this article.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Much has been said about link building and guest blogging. Guest blogging can be a useful form of link building as long as you focus on quality and not just on acquiring links. The links you get from guest blogging are usually in your author bio, which is published at the bottom of your articles when you get them published.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 17, 2012

Most online businesses publish content in two places – their website and their blog – it’s a standard online marketing strategy. You will often see references to publishing content in article directories, Facebook, HubSpot, Squidoo and perhaps even on other blogs as a guest author. You shouldn’t.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 8, 2011

» Do You HAVE To Blog Every Day? One of the things that you’ll hear often among professional Internet marketers and SEOs is that you should blog every day. Obviously, if you blog every day, then that will cost you more in ghostwriting services than if you blog once a week. You should blog as often as you can.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

I sure hope you have a blog for your business, because this is one of your biggest tools for communicating and actually connecting with your customers. Your blog is how your readers get to know you and feel like there’s a relationship — particularly when you can start a conversation that becomes a dialog. What do you think?

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

When Google announced their Link Disavow tool and Matt Cutts, Google’s web search quality czar, revealed that links from spammy article sites would no longer be a valuable ranking factor, I predicted that there would be a spike in guest blog post offers for those of us with existing blogs.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 22, 2011

Of course, you only get these benefits if your blog and if you blog in the right manner. Here are those 3 benefits: Fresh Content – Every time you write a blog post, you add fresh content to your website. Every blog post is considered a separate web page by the search engines. Do you have a company blog ?

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 31, 2014

Now that Matt Cutts has declared guest blogging dead , SEOs and Internet marketers in every niche will start looking for alternative ways to build links back to their websites. But you don’t have to be a guest blog spammer to find other ways to link back to your website. At least, the spammy ones will.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Conducting research for your blog articles and other content marketing initiatives is one of the most important activities you can perform. Blogging for Small Business blogging content marketing research Social Media' You don’t want that. It will affect your readership. Don’t rely on it completely.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

You don’t have to search hard for people online these days who talk about the difficulty of reaching your core audience with blog content. Does Blogging/Social Media Work? Instead, I’m going to quote from the above-linked article. “How do I build a platform and make money with my blog?”

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 10, 2012

Frank Reed has written an interesting post on Marketing Pilgrim that highlights where blogs are now going in the business world. Nielsen’s NM Incite is currently tracking over 173 million blogs – that’s a lot of blogs, many of which you will need to compete against. Blogs are still powerful tools in the right hands.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

If you have a business blog or you need website content, or even if you do any guest blogging or publish articles at various places around the Web, you need a way to come up with constant content ideas. The next time you write an article or blog post, answer a question you’ve heard from one of your customers.

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APRIL 30, 2011

» Kudos To HubPages Anyone who has read my blog for very long knows that I am a strong advocate of article marketing. That is, I believe that writing articles and publishing off of your website with links back to your website is a good way to promote yourself online. Everyone wins. How can that be bad?

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APRIL 7, 2011

» EzineArticles Says Keyword Density Is Important If you’ve been paying attention to the Google Panda update, you’ve noticed that EzineArticles – the largest article directory online – was hit and suffered a huge traffic loss. That’s a doggone shame. Chris Knight says he agrees with Google’s update.

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APRIL 20, 2011

According to an article on My Edmonds News website, small businesses stand to profit more from social media than big businesses or corporations. – According to an article on My Edmonds News website, small businesses stand to … [link] Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. I totally agree.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

But here are the ways you can use long-form content to supplement what you are doing with short articles: Blog posts – Anything over 2,000 words is considered long-form in blogging. Long blog posts can be more detailed and offer far more value to readers than short-form blog posts. Long-form content is in.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 9, 2012

One tool that has helped many new bloggers and article writers is to create a writing plan. Your writing plan is a pre-scheduled list of blog posts or articles that you plan to write over the next month. First, note the date you want your article or blog post to be published. It’s a useful tool.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Start a blog – Let’s face it, you can’t really run a Web business today without a blog. So build a website and add a blog. Write some articles – Article marketing used to be about mass submission. Make it look good, fill it with great content, and make it user friendly.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Write better titles/headlines – Blog post titles and article headlines are some of the most important elements on your web pages. Just do some guest blogging or post articles in other places around the Web. When you do, link back to the articles on your website or blog, but do it discreetly.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 17, 2014

Your Blog – Add a blog to your website and update it every day, or as often as you can publish valuable content. Third-Party Niche Websites – Guest blogging and writing guest articles for other sites within your niche allow you opportunities to reach your target audience where they are already hanging out.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2011

3 Ways A Blog Helps You SEO-Wise » How To Promote Your Business In 2011 When it comes to promoting a small business, you have to prepare for changes. Start a blog – Search engines like consistent fresh content. Update your blog daily. Article marketing – Article marketing is not dead.

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APRIL 29, 2011

This includes your static content, blog content, and maybe even your social media content. Sometimes you can turn a popular blog post into an article. Unloads Delicious Kudos To HubPages » Revamping Old Content About once a year or so you should go through your old content and update it.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

If you’re struggling with how to encourage more tweets and retweets for your blog and website content, then I highly recommend reading these two articles, both of which were written by social media icons and veterans of the field: Twitter Share Buttons Bring 7 Times The Return. 21 Tips To Earn Links And Tweets To Your Blog Post.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 22, 2014

In the last couple of years you’ve likely heard a lot about link building, guest blogging, and Google algorithms. Spun articles, poorly written articles, articles where every link is an anchor text link, a lot of self-promotion, and the list goes on. By the way, “articles” refers to blog posts too.

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MAY 9, 2011

Tags: article marketing , blog marketing , internet marketing , mobile marketing , newsletter marketing , Pay Per Click , search engine optimization , social media marketing , website design This entry was posted on Monday, May 9th, 2011 at 11:04 am and is filed under Small Business Internet Marketing.

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APRIL 15, 2011

On your blog and website, provide consistent valuable content and you’ll find yourself gaining friends, fans, and customers by the dozens. Tags: blogging , content , internet marketing , Social Media This entry was posted on Friday, April 15th, 2011 at 9:23 am and is filed under Small Business Internet Marketing.

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MARCH 20, 2014

It can be blog comments, forum posts, guest articles, author bios, or anything that is created by your website’s users and published on your website, blog, forum, or other Web property. Think about comments on your blog, for instance. SEO for Small Business blog comments forum posts SEO UGC user generated content'

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

No matter what type of blog or business you are running, an editorial calendar – or content calendar – can help keep you on track and manage your content better from day to day and week to week. If you have a WordPress blog, there is an Editorial Calendar plug-in you can use. Keyword(s). Deadline date.

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APRIL 12, 2011

This is true whether you are writing for a print publication or if you are writing for an online publication, a blog, a Twitter stream, PPC ads, or anywhere you expect to get readers. Tell your readers exactly what your story or blog post is about. So how do you write a good headline, one that gets the click?

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

And their were places where business owners could go to publish their articles. They were often called article directories. People started blogging. Then there were web rings and a few ways of advertising your website in hopes of driving traffic to it. Eventually, pay-per-click advertising came along.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 10, 2011

Let’s say that Small Business Mavericks has a staff of five writers, all of whom write content for the blog. If each one has an author page with a bio, then each author could have a byline on every blog post they write. rel=&# author&# Defines Authorship. rel=&# me&# Defines The Person.

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JULY 21, 2014

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at the Moz Blog in the comments of Bill Sebald’s article, “ Building Better Content By Improving On Your Competitors.” I’m not making fun of him, I’m admiring the way he brainstorms because it keeps a record of ideas and rabbit trails.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

This means maybe add a blog to your site. Then add articles, or blogs to that section of the site. You don’t have to use a ton of keywords for each content article or blog you post, but you do need to mix them up and use about 4-6 for each post. It’s all about content and keywords.

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MARCH 20, 2011

Specifically, an article on the National Association of Realtors’ website tells real estate agents what to do, but I wouldn’t trust it completely. In a nutshell, the article encourages real estate agents to focus on one task per week, then in six week’s time they will be on their way to increased Web visibility.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 26, 2011

In fact, a recent article enlightened me to some new ways to market a business through Facebook. Facebook Comments – This system allows you to comment on a blog and see your comments appear on your Facebook wall. Then, when they comment, their comments appear on the original blog post. But that’s not all.

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