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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

By this time, I hope you have been convinced that adding a blog to your site has great potential for enhancing your marketing efforts, adding to your site’s authority, and increasing your audience. But where is your blog being seen? But why would your blog be a good idea to post on this site?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

On Friday, I talked about Google’s heightened attention to quality content and how that relates to guest blogging. Since writing that post on Friday, I’ve received about 25 requests in my e-mail to allow guest blog posts on this blog. The reality is, not all guest blog offers are created equal.

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JUNE 9, 2014

According to Google’s Webmaster Central Blog, “few topics confuse and scare webmasters more than site moves,” so they wrote a post on Making Site Moves Easier. It’s pretty helpful, with links to specific ways to move several categories of content migration. Two Ways Your Site Is Read.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 3, 2011

It’s important, as a small business, to have a content marketing strategy. You could just post random content and hope it gains traction, drives traffic, and wins customers. A better strategy is to plan your content marketing so that all levels of your content work together for the good of your customers and your company.

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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. Your first and best source of ideas for content is your customers. Read other blogs in your niche.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Conducting research for your blog articles and other content marketing initiatives is one of the most important activities you can perform. In fact, if you aren’t doing research, then your content is going to be dry and boring, maybe even lacking in the facts department. You don’t want that.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

The Internet erupted yesterday when Matt Cutts said that guest blogging is “done.” My interpretation is this, Guest blogging as a link building tool only is a dead science; you can expect the search engines (especially Google) to start roughing it up a bit. I think that’s what Matt Cutts is really getting at.

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MAY 27, 2015

His advice on the Marketo Blog – Dot Your I’s and Cross Your T’s: Don’t Let Copyright Law Be Used Against Your Content Marketing – is good advice for anyone creating content for internet use. The service will then take down the offending content. ” Who Does DMCA Protect? Only you can make that call.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 29, 2012

When it comes to off-site marketing and content publishing, few tactics provide as many benefits as guest blogging. The gurus and the ninjas are right about one thing: Guest blogging produces a lot of benefit for small business owners who want to expand their businesses and build their brands. Don’t abuse it.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Content marketing can take place on your website or offsite. But where do you find your offsite content marketing sources? Here are 4 suggestions for offsite content marketing, places where you can publish your content or have others publish content on your behalf. That’s a good question. Places like Yahoo!

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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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FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Everyone knows you can improve your search engine optimization (SEO), and potentially gain new search rankings, by adding new content to your website. You can do this by adding web pages to your site or by blogging. But how about improving search rankings by not adding new content. Did you know you can do that?

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JUNE 23, 2014

One of the most effective ways to gain authority online is by adding quality content to your site, and one of the best ways to add quality content is by having a good blog. Blog posts should be simple. The point of your blog is the natural keyword, and that word or phrase should be in your headline.

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JULY 1, 2011

When it comes to blogging, there is no one-size-fits-all strategy. With that in mind, here are 4 viable blog strategies that work. SEO Blogging – With SEO blogging, the idea is to produce content that gains search engine traction. This type of blogging has a bad name in some circles.

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MAY 8, 2013

I’ve been a big proponent of guest blogging and still am. One killed content farms and the other killed low-quality links from low-quality sites. One killed content farms and the other killed low-quality links from low-quality sites. They turned to guest blogging – under their real names.

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MAY 7, 2011

» Types Of HTML 5 Content Since 1998, the widely accepted generation of HTML in use has been HTML 4. One of the more interesting developments is in the categories of content that HTML 5 editors are offering. I see the most potential for HTML 5 being in the embedded and interactive content categories. With Web 2.0

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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. This invites the search engine spiders back to your site to crawl it. Do you have a company blog

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MAY 12, 2012

Blogging can be hard work, especially when it comes to delivering good quality content on a regular basis. The key phrases there are “quality content” and “regular basis.” ” We’ll leave it up to you to decide on the timing of your content. The main issue then is quality content.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2011

» Content Farms: Did Google Go Far Enough? Thursday, Google introduced a new algorithm to reduce the rankings of content farms in its search results. The interesting thing here is that the algorithm was introduced just days after a Google Chrome extension allowing users to block content farms from their search results.

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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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MARCH 30, 2012

There are tens of thousands of blogs that are suddenly finding they no longer ranks in search results. The reason is quite clear – Google has well and truly slapped several link/blog networks and the results have been startling. You can read more on Google’s link/blog network slap on SearchNewz.

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AUGUST 27, 2011

When it comes to small business online marketing tactics, what is more effective – blogs, social media, or e-mail? And there doesn’t seem to be any end in site. Blogs are also very effective – as SEO tools, as branding tools, and as social media marketing tools. It’s a loaded question.

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APRIL 9, 2012

When it comes to SEO for small business, it all starts with a good content. I’ll go further and suggest great content. Do you need ‘killer’ content? Some would argue yes, however, try coming up with ‘killer’ content everyday and you’ll most likely burn out within the week.

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DECEMBER 24, 2011

This question comes up a lot because it takes more than just having a website to make the site profitable to you. In order to drive more traffic to your website you have to continuously add content to the site. Social Media sites are wonderful places to market your business, but your website also needs your attention.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

One of the platforms behind search engine optimization is content. “Publish useful keyword content regularly” has been the mantra for over a decade now, however, one wonders if that is all about to change and that content on websites could become defunct. I for one hope it never comes to that.

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JUNE 10, 2015

Neil Patel wrote a great blog post at Search Engine Journal about why some websites rank well in Google even though their pages aren’t optimized. Google has enough information to compare other results on pages 8, 9, 10, and 11, and if your CTR is well above other comparable sites, you’ll move up.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2012

Every supplier that deals with their business has some authority, and small business owners can make use of that authority to increase their own authority, and the authority of their business blog. From a business blog perspective, and short but meaningful interview with the ‘brains’ behind a product carries a lot of weight.

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MAY 1, 2014

He’s written best-selling books, has several websites, and produces content that is easy to read because it’s enjoyable. Some of Seth’s blogs are long, some are only a few simple sentences that emphasize his point and leave you to chew on it.

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MARCH 5, 2011

» The True Meaning Of Content What is the true meaning of content? But today, content has a rather broad view. Content has moved beyond the web page. But small business owners have to get creative in the ways that we develop content and in what that content is designed for. That was about it.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Everywhere you turn, you can hear someone talking about a blog. Whether they are writing a blog or they are reading a blog, one thing is for sure. Blogs are wildly popular. Blogs are like websites, but you have social interaction with your viewers. Many blog sites are free and easy to use, too.

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MARCH 9, 2011

Widgets and tools that allow for embedded content have been around for years. But I have yet to see a really good tool that allows you to embed Facebook content. It’s free and all you have to do is copy the URL, click on the “ditto&# button, and copy/paste the content you want to embed. Just take a look at the page.

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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. Your Blog – Add a blog to your website and update it every day, or as often as you can publish valuable content. Small Business Internet Marketing blog guest blogging review sites Social Media website'

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

It’s all about content and keywords. Not only do you need your content about your business on your website, you also need regular content updated often. This means maybe add a blog to your site. Then add articles, or blogs to that section of the site. Even better if you add content every day.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

You may find it surprising that there are still folks link building like it’s 2010, but I was recently approached by a company that wanted me to write a 200-300 word blog post on why their real estate product was a good buy. Small Business Mavericks isn’t a real estate blog. Just write great content.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Pinterest allows its users to share and discover their interests via highly visual content by pinning items to a virtual corkboard. In fact, Pinterest drives more revenue per click than Facebook or Twitter and since it is so simple and visual, the site drives a lot of click-through traffic. Start Pinning! Don’t You Dare….

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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. On your blog and website, provide consistent valuable content and you’ll find yourself gaining friends, fans, and customers by the dozens. It’s that easy.

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DECEMBER 10, 2012

Duplicate content has become a bigger problem for many small business owners and webmasters in the last couple of years. The main reason why is because the Google Panda and Penguin updates targeted specific website issues that in effect penalize duplicate content. Google crawls the blog post, each category, and each tag.

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