Small Business Mavericks

article thumbnail

Six Quick And Easy Branding Tips

Small Business Mavericks

This can be in blog comments, writing guest posts, being active on forums related to your niche, and the obvious social media realms such as Facebook and Twitter. This can include commenting on other people’s pages, retweeting tweets that are of interest, and being involved in conversations.

Brands 101
article thumbnail

Are You Wasting Facebook Business Opportunities?

Small Business Mavericks

Popular is measure by way of comments and likes, so a negative review could sit at the top for everyone to see. Because it’s on top, it could generate new comments and likes, so keeping it on top. Popular content will rise to the top, so the most popular content will sit at the very top.

Facebook 117
article thumbnail

Buying Your Way To The Top Of Search Rankings – Ethically

Small Business Mavericks

Sometimes, rather than a freebie, a business will make a special offer, for example, a percentage off. Blog – having a blog will, over time, help to increase search rankings, if your blog receives a lot of visitors, a lot of quality comments, and a lot of inbound links. The end result is still the same.

Buy 107
article thumbnail

Make The Connections That Change Your Business

Small Business Mavericks

Casey Meraz then gets specific, using examples to show the SEO strategies that make your association with the promotion of a local event so effective. After that, the discussion starts in the comments and other readers share their insights. Local Events That Can Connect. grand openings or new product promotion. booths at local fairs.

SEO 116
article thumbnail

How Far Should You Go To Protect Your Content?

Small Business Mavericks

An article on econsultancy.com makes for interesting reading, more so the comments. One comment really sticks out: “Sorry, thanks for liking our brand and all but please don’t share it with your friends, we’d rather they found it themselves somehow.” In most cases, it may be shooting yourself in the foot.

Content 105
article thumbnail

Do You Have A Social Media Training Policy?

Small Business Mavericks

Think through things like: response times for comments and emails — sooner is better than later. policies on personal posts regarding work — show the fallout from viral disasters as examples. allowing comments and feedback on training — it’s social, so it should be collaborative.

article thumbnail

Should You Build Generic Untargeted Inbound Links?

Small Business Mavericks

There has been a lot of discussion of late surrounding comments made by both Google and Bing representatives related to the ‘over optimization’ of web pages. Another popular link is the word ‘here’, for example, you can read more about this issues HERE. One theory that is being discussed is that of intent.