Small Business Mavericks

MAY 26, 2012

You could buy links, pay for directory listings, and even pay to have people promote you through social media. Issue coupons that are great deals, and people will talk about you through blogs and social media. Directories - there are still a few quality directories that Google respects. In the past you could.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 4, 2011

The True Meaning Of Content » Why Article Marketing Will Never Die A couple of days ago I wrote about Google’s recent algorithm change and how it is beating down the article directories. I’m not willing to say that article directories are dead. Consider it safe to say that I don’t think it will ever die.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

You relied on article directories and bad business directories. You thought blog comment spam would help you. Here’s why: You paid for links. You engaged in reciprocal link building. You tried tricking Google with link wheels. You sent out low-quality press releases.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 16, 2012

Other blogs – You should write to your own blog as often as possible, but don’t be afraid to be a guest blogger too. Directories – Not all directories are created equal. That’s a good question. You can write guest content for other bloggers within your niche or that serve the same market.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Article directories (yes, they still work). Guest blogging. Niche directories. YellowPages.com, Yelp, and other online city directories. Google+ (still in beta, by invitation only). The search engines – Bing and Google organic listings. Pay per click ads. Knol pages. Etsy, if you are a crafter. Foursquare.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Article marketing took on a whole new air of importance and website directories were full of useless descriptions for the sake of a good link. Then, along came blogging and social media, videos, mobile marketing, etc. Webmasters scrambled to get the best links from the best websites.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 21, 2015

There were directories where those websites could be listed. They were often called article directories. People started blogging. In the early days of Internet marketing, there weren’t that many channels for a small business to use for getting the word out about their business. Most businesses had a website.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 30, 2011

Build your links from a lot of different types of websites (directories, blogs, forums, etc.) Here are some things to think about in your attempts to build a solid link portfolio: Use between 10-25 different anchor texts for each web page you are targeting. within your niche.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 26, 2015

It didn’t take long for directories to pop onto the scene. Blogging took off like a rocket followed by social networking and video marketing. You’ll likely find a few forums where athletes meet to discuss their interests, but you’ll also likely find a few blogs where this occurs naturally.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 2, 2015

They provide the corresponding page directory with Home, Category, Subcategory, Detail Page, etc., It is easy to create a site and add a blog post regularly without realizing that things aren’t healthy. Rich snippets like breadcrumb navigation. which makes for breezy browsing.”

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 19, 2011

Google slapped the article directories hard, so hard that you might not want to keep putting your articles there. Even niche-related blogs. But recently, article marketing has taken a huge turn – for better and for the worse. They may work and they may not. Try HubPages, Google Knol, and Squidoo Lenses.

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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. Here are some of the most effective strategies for promoting a business in 2011.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 5, 2011

’s local directories as well). This is why I think the No. 1 most important thing for any local small business to do is to claim their listing in Google Places (and in Bing’s and Yahoo!’s That should be your starting place for online local marketing. I’m with Frank on one thing.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 13, 2011

I always recommend listing a business in a professional directory or search engine. Unless there are serious issues with the site, it’s usually a positive. In this case, I’d say it’s definitely a positive.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 20, 2011

I’d rather see you start a blog or list your website in local directories. I like what Matt McGee had to say about NARs blog comment advice: Commenting on blogs can help with exposure, but it’s not a “campaign” and isn’t likely to make a search engine think your site is trustworthy, either. As you know, I use it.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 2, 2011

Article directories? And for the record, EzineArticles was not the only article directory affected by this algorithm change. Here are others: HubPages Buzzle Associated Content Articles Base Find Articles These are all sites that can be referred to as “article directories&# under the traditional definition of article directory.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 17, 2012

Directories – quality is again the issue when it comes to directories. There are thousands of directories online now, and most are poor quality. Ironically, higher quality directories that charge for a listing have escaped Google’s attention.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Let’s say you write an article to post on your blog or website. While search engines crawl blogs and websites, they don’t typically crawl newsletters because the content is not published on the public Web. You can then publish the podcast on your website or on a podcast directory.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 12, 2015

List your website in directories. Of course, there are also photo sharing sites, infographics directories, slideshare and webinar platforms, and much more. In the early days of the Internet, if you wanted to market your business online, you had just a few options: Write articles. Join a traffic ring.

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