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JUNE 23, 2012

Guest blogging is a great marketing method. You pick a few high profile, highly trafficked blogs in your niche and send them a query or a blog post and hope they publish it. If they do, you get a link back to your website and some additional reputation points. I highly recommend it. Good for you. It’s one of many.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

If you routinely publish bad content on your blog, it could hurt your reputation online and damage your brand. Beyond bad content, there are four other big blogging mistakes that can hurt your online brand. Failing to SEO your blog – You don’t have to over-optimize – that is, focus entirely on SEO.

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JULY 3, 2012

Blogging, more than any other kind of marketing, is multi-dimensional. In fact, I’ve identified 5 key dimensions of your blog and they have all equal value. When you blog you should keep each of these 5 dimensions in mind. 1 rankings for your blog alone. 1 rankings for your blog alone.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Search Engine Journal has an impressive addition to their Blogging 101 Series — this one’s called Traffic Generation For Blogs On A Budget. Pretty soon you will have a perspective on traffic generation that is applicable to far more than your blog because things overlap. Then pick one thing.

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OCTOBER 11, 2011

How many different blog comment applications are out there? If you are a WordPress user, then you know you don’t need to add a plug-in or application to encourage comments on your blog. But what if Google+ had a blog comment system? That would help your blog and your commentators. WordPress has its own.

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APRIL 11, 2013

There are two ways to get involved in the guest blogging craze. You can be a guest blogger on someone else’s blog or you can accept guest bloggers for your blog. Publish them on your blog so that potential guest bloggers know what your guidelines are and can follow them easily. Your reputation is important.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Article marketing is generally thought of as something that takes place off of your website whereas blogging is generally something thought of as something that takes place on your website. However, you can publish articles on your website and you can blog apart from your website.

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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. One of the things that you’ll hear often among professional Internet marketers and SEOs is that you should blog every day. Can you afford that?

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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. Every blog post is considered a separate web page by the search engines. Do you have a company blog ?

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MARCH 29, 2012

If you have a website or blog, then you can embed individual Tweets into your pages. Embedding Twitter Tweets is one of those easy tasks that could potentially add to your business’s reputation. Unless that website is Twitter. You can also grab comments that have been made into topics that are relevant to your site or business.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

In fact, there’s a very good chance that Google will automatically link your social network profiles to your reputation. Use Google Authorship to connect your social profiles with your reputation and online home base. Write guest blog posts for their websites and interact with their readers through blog comments.

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DECEMBER 30, 2014

Eric Meyer, an expert web designer, became the inadvertent spokesman for the opposition when he took issue with the practice on his blog. I like what one commenter said on the blog post about the ‘like’button not really being used to indicate ‘liking’ It’s the same thing, really.

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MARCH 6, 2014

One of the big benefits to being active on social media is the proof of your reputation. It can be anything from the blog posts your company publishes to reviews of your product on Amazon or your company on Yelp. It’s called social proof and it’s powerful. The truth is, there’s not magic number.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Is it blogging, pay-per-click marketing, social media , or something else? Some people say you should start a blog and write to it every day. In fact, a daily blog is a powerful online marketing weapon that can bring you years of benefits that include traffic, search engine rankings, and increased reputation.

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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. The benefits are simple: Free one-way links Enhanced reputation for the author New targeted traffic to your website And that’s just a start HubPages has done well to provide these benefits.

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JULY 26, 2012

There are two primary reasons you should link from your website or blog to social media websites : It builds your social authority. This includes your website and blog, but it also includes social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. It’s good SEO. Your Social Authority. They build trust. Social Media As SEO.

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JULY 11, 2014

Greg Gifford, a self-described “Local SEO geek”, just put out a timely guide titled Everybody Needs Local SEO on the Moz Blog. Reputation management workout — how to increase positive reviews. I love reading the voice of experience, especially when it is so helpful to the rest of us. Basic Local SEO.

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MARCH 25, 2015

Most businesses could do a lot more in creating local links — and Casey Meraz has just given us 11 Ways for Local Businesses to Get Links on the Moz Blog. Here is his list for links that will drive referral traffic, build brand visibility, and build your reputation: create controversy and get in the news. get eco-friendly links.

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JANUARY 23, 2014

Content marketing has gotten a little bit of a bad reputation. Spammers and low quality content producers are partly responsible for the bad reputation because, let’s face it, they produce bad content. It consists of website content, blogs, videos, podcasts, links, and anything you produce that creates your brand.

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JULY 22, 2012

Search engine optimization has a bad reputation. Others are people who giving advice based on blogs they’ve read and outdated information. Many people don’t trust it and it’s largely due to bad advice that SEOs often give. Some of those SEOs are shady characters who just don’t have any ethics.

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APRIL 7, 2011

Should You Use A Ghost Twitterer? » 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.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Customer service is one of the most important issues when it comes to reputation management. Your business’s reputation will depend on how well you manage this area of customer interaction. » Is Your Customer Service Up To Scratch? You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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MARCH 19, 2011

A YouTube channel that offers entertaining and informative videos can increase your online reputation. If your channel is popular enough, you can sell advertising on your videos and monetize the channel. You can become an instant expert by sharing your knowledge through daily or weekly online videos with your own YouTube channel.

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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 7, 2013

Start a blog – Blogging is another way to be a publisher. Your credibility and reputation deserve a new approach. There are a variety of ways to get content for your e-zine. One way is to take submissions from industry professionals. Write your own posts and take guest posts from other industry professionals.

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MAY 11, 2011

to prevent others from getting it first and doing damage to your reputation. Ditto if you are a local business person just getting started with your local online marketing. You get 50 free business cards just for signing up. You can secure your profile address at About.Me It will look like this: About.Me/YourName. It’s free.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

You thought blog comment spam would help you. Write good, original content and back it up with a solid reputation. You engaged in reciprocal link building. You tried tricking Google with link wheels. You relied on article directories and bad business directories. You sent out low-quality press releases. You now have to fix the problem.

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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. Not only can it build your reputation, but you can build links to your web properties as well. Make it look good, fill it with great content, and make it user friendly.

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JUNE 6, 2013

The FCC would like you to disclose your sponsorship whenever you sponsor a blog post or any content online. It won’t taint your reputation if you do it correctly. Some people don’t like it, but it seems fair. At heart, it’s a credibility issue. That’s as it should be.

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MARCH 30, 2011

People are buying on their phones, reading blogs on their phones, and updating their social media on their phones. Blog Marketing – Blog marketing came on strong, then it dipped. But it appears that blog marketing is experiencing a surge again. Mobile search is big and I predict it will get bigger.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

While this feature won’t necessarily catapult Quora to the top of the social media websites , it could give the Q&A site a boost in reputation. Earlier this month, WebProNews reported that bloggers can now embed Quora quotes into their blog posts. After all, Bing is the second largest pure search engine online.

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MARCH 26, 2015

Recently, Google’s official blog said, “ It’s time to put America’s small businesses on the map.” I took out the links in that quote, but the numbers are backed by research and you can find it in the original blog post. That’s a lot of missed opportunities for small businesses. . The Searcher Is The Boss.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Even niche-related blogs. The 2011 way to market yourself through articles is to distribute them through other channels. Try HubPages, Google Knol, and Squidoo Lenses. Or find websites within your niche that publish articles. Articles are still good marketing tools. If you want to be successful at article marketing, study your niche.

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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 25, 2011

In my opinion, you should be spending three hours on search engine marketing activities (blogging, PPC, or content creation) and the remaining one hour on social media and non-SEM activities. That means writing that daily blog post and spending some time tweaking your landing pages and PPC ads. How are you filling that four hours?

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