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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. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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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. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

They can search for information in your niche or be led to your site by a link in your e-mail correspondence. You can promote your blog posts, interact with and engage your audience, and produce valuable content for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, and other social media sites then lead them back to your website.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Guest blogging is nothing less than another form of article marketing, which has always existed in some form on the Web. It was just like article marketing except that it was for mass production. It was just like article marketing except that it was for mass production.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bing is the second most popular search engine, and according to a recent article on Search Engine Journal, Bing tends to be preferred by certain parts of the market. Some even can be considered exclusive according to the SEJ article. Who Are These People? households with children. households with incomes over $75,000.

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JULY 13, 2011

Early this year, in February, Google rocked the Internet when it updated its search algorithms and slapped down some very authoritative sites in their respective niches. Some of the biggest slap downs occurred in the article directory niche. While the update was designed to target large sites, it also affected many smaller sites.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Your site has a power source that acts like the engine in a car — the SEO factors can be okay but not be as powerful as possible, just like the car that needs a tune up. Use your target keywords across the entire site. It’s a good article, worthy of your consideration. Create an image sitemap. Add schema everywhere.

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APRIL 21, 2011

Article marketing – Article marketing is not dead. It’s different than it was ten years ago, but articles still are a good traffic source. Social bookmarking – Bookmark and share all of your content at two or three social bookmarking sites daily. You must be logged in to post a comment.

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APRIL 18, 2011

The Changing Face Of Article Marketing » UberMedia, Mixx, And Twitter Remember the social media website Mixx ? You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc.,

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APRIL 4, 2013

Google Panda virtually killed article directories. Press release distribution sites are directories for press releases. As such, they suffer from some of the same weaknesses – weaknesses that killed the article directories after Google rolled out Panda. Some of those article directories bounced back, but not all of them.

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JULY 10, 2014

How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will is a recent article on Wired.com by Kevin Poulsen and it made me think about how easy it is to lose business out of ignorance or indifference to our online presence. Have you heard of the lawsuit a restaurant owner filed against Google because of a probable hacking?

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

While it’s true that a lot of PDF content isn’t the greatest SEO content, it’s not true that PDF documents are bad to have on your site if there are good reasons for PDFs to be there. An article at Search Engine Land details the pros and cons of PDFs for SEO. What’s A Good Reason For A PDF? Practice Good SEO.

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JUNE 10, 2011

It’s really pretty simple, but I think it bears some discussion and how small business owners can use the site for improving their own search engine rankings. This code tells the search engines that Caroline Melberg is the author of the article linking to the author’s page. rel=&# author&# Defines Authorship.

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MARCH 9, 2015

“A site’s URL structure should be as simple as possible. ” This is the opening of an article titled, “ Keep a simple URL structure ” on Google’s Webmaster Tools. The various search engines utilize the URL to navigate your site and use algorithm logic to determine what is valuable and what is not.

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APRIL 9, 2011

Let your customers know you have a listing at these sites (you do, don’t you?) Other sites like Yelp and CitySearch offer local business listings and a way for customers to review a business. Other sites like Yelp and CitySearch offer local business listings and a way for customers to review a business.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Write articles and distribute them around the Internet. Don’t overdo the persona thing on your off-site content. The same thing applies as with articles. If you attract an audience with your persona, you can drive that traffic back to your landing pages on your own site and close the sale. Guest blogs. Social media.

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AUGUST 3, 2015

Your content marketing strategy should consist of six timeless principles that will keep visitors coming back to your site again and again and lead those visitors to do business with you through a series of steps called your sales funnel. Not every article necessarily, but don’t rely only on your own authority either.

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MAY 3, 2011

The question arises often about how often is often enough when posting to the popular social media sites – particularly Facebook and Twitter. A good rule of thumb for posting on the social media sites is to spend 15 minutes twice a day on each one. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2011

This enables a webmaster to view analytics for their sites without having to switch between Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. It may only be a convenience issue, but for those business owners who manage their own sites, time is always an issue – hopefully this will make life a little easier.

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APRIL 26, 2012

If you thought Google’s drive to remove spammy sites from search results had slowed, think again. Matt Cutts has published an article on the Google Webmaster Central blog alerting everyone to new update that’s about to be released. In some cases, local results will outrank non-local web sites in a big way.

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MARCH 17, 2012

You will often see references to publishing content in article directories, Facebook, HubSpot, Squidoo and perhaps even on other blogs as a guest author. As your business grows, there are more opportunities to publish content – on site rather than off site, and by doing so, you deliver a more professional appearance to visitors.

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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. Link to other content on your site so that you can keep readers on your site. Use keywords that mean something to your business and your products if you have that for sale on your site.

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JULY 8, 2011

Article directories – Which articles are most popular? Niche social networking sites – Have you found one that serves your niche? E-mail newsletters you subscribe to. Forums you’re a member of – What questions are people asking? Your own blog’s comments – What questions are people asking?

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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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MAY 5, 2011

One interesting thing that Frank brings out in this article, and if you perform a lot of local searches you probably already were aware of this, is that you don’t have to add a local qualifier with certain search terms like “pizza&# and “movie theaters.&# You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

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MAY 9, 2011

You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc., In most cases, you can get better results from online marketing on a smaller budget than you can from traditional marketing.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Sometimes you can turn a popular blog post into an article. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc., There are many ways to revamp and repurpose old content.

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APRIL 22, 2011

This invites the search engine spiders back to your site to crawl it. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc., You must be logged in to post a comment.

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MAY 10, 2011

But here’s a question: Did Quora make its policy change because Google is now indexing the site in real time? You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc.,

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Small Business Twitter Case Study Press Release 156

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AUGUST 12, 2014

The result of having no script to follow means that customers will not necessarily be doing things on your site the way your tech team does, and that the questions they ask customer service may not follow the dialog your representative is told to follow. Benefits Should Flow Both Ways.

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APRIL 15, 2011

Why are the search engines and social media sites so full of spam. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc., It could just as well be “The Surest Way To Earn Fans.&#

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MAY 6, 2011

You can check your site’s load time across multiple browsers. Your site visitors expect it. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Contact Us | Home Site Map | Legal Notices Small Business Mavericks is a part of Melberg Marketing, Inc © 2006 – 2010 Melberg Marketing, Inc.,

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JUNE 12, 2014

Millennials are the focus of the study in the article, but we all know non-millennials who have changed their expectations because they have gotten used to using mobile technology. If your sites are not responsive , you will lose that connection because the customer will find someplace easier to go. Why risk that?

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MARCH 8, 2012

The article on Search Engine Watch related to Pinterest and how to get the best from the new social media site. In this particular case, there was a qualifier in that sales often occurred a month after a person first visited their site. However, the contents in general were not what got me thinking.

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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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MAY 7, 2011

fully entrenched and almost every website these days taking on social features, these content categories will likely become more widely used as HTML 5 makes it easier for web developers to incorporate them into their site designs. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. With Web 2.0

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