Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 26, 2013

The search engines of course will have to adjust to the volume of new domain names. Several of these new gTLDs have already received thousands of applications for domain names in anticipation of the coming explosion. SEO for Small Business domain names gTLD search'

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 14, 2011

It costs less than $20 per year for a domain name and less than $15 per month for good hosting. In many cases, you can have a domain name for $10 per year and hosting for less than $5 per month. And the SEO benefits to owning your own domain name and building your website on a traditional host are proven.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 30, 2011

Remember when Facebook first opened up personal domain names? You could get your own name and it was on a first-come, first-serve basis. Well, recently, HubPages has decided to give you your own subdomain and you better hurry if you want it to be your name. Another benefit to you is reputation management.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 24, 2013

You need a keyword-based domain name – It might help. This is just one ranking criteria, however, many websites rank well for keywords that are not in their domain name. Branded domain names work just as well. Just build a few inbound links and they will discover your site. It might not.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 25, 2011

I’ve kept it no secret that I’m a fan of WordPress on your own domain name, but there are still people who would rather use Blogger as a free blogging platform. Some of them even go so far as to map it to their own domain name.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Advice I’ve given in the past is the same advice that most small business marketing consultants give: Buy a domain name, pay for hosting, set up a website, etc. I’ve changed my thinking over the years about how small businesses can make that first all-important step to achieving an online presence.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 11, 2011

I’ve always been a proponent of your own domain name. domain names don’t typically do well in the search engines. I still am. But I recently took a quick survey of About.Me You can also link to your websites so if you build your About.Me

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 9, 2013

Over time, exact match domain names may be somewhat important but aren’t in the top three. Some SEOs think they are important and some don’t. But even those who say they are believe that at times they are more important and at times less important. SEO for Small Business anchor text content ranking factors Social Media'

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 13, 2013

however, seems to be more interested in domain names with age. Google likes aged domains as well, but with over 200 ranking algorithms any one ranking factor is going to have less influence on its own. You can push your Bing rankings higher if you have a strong Facebook network and promote your links to your Facebook friends.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 29, 2012

That’s a domain name, hosting, a decent web site and blog thrown in. Many business owners have a misconception about the cost of setting up an online presence. It doesn’t cost tens of thousands, you can set up a reasonable online presence for around a thousand dollars.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 1, 2011

This type of blogging has a bad name in some circles. You set up a domain name with your primary keyword in it and target that keyword plus several more that are related. You can put your SEO blog on the back end of a domain that you want to increase traffic for or put it on a separate domain and use it to build links.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 19, 2013

Choose a domain name that is easy to read and descriptive. Use short, descriptive file names for your images. Small Business Mavericks has been saying the same thing for several years. Here’s the basic recipe for ranking your new website in Google : Write an informative page title based on your primary keyword.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 14, 2011

Your e-mail address is from an obvious fake domain name or from a Web marketing company’s web address. If your Web marketing company can’t leave me your e-mail address or an e-mail address from your domain instead of theirs, then I know you paid someone to get you back links.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 31, 2013

For instance, if you have to get a new domain name to correspond with your new business domain, then when you redirect your old site to the new domain you’ll likely lose some search engine rankings. Is rebranding really necessary? If it is, there are some definite costs, and I mean beyond the dollars and cents.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

When you consider the low cost of web hosting, domain purchases, and do-it-yourself marketing, I can’t see any time when it will be cost prohibitive to own your own standalone website with your domain name hosted outside of the Google ecosystem. Maybe I’m naive. What are your thoughts?

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2012

The aim is to keep the slug as clean as possible, preferably using just your domain name and the page title. There is still dispute about image file names. What we do know is that having a keyword optimized file name wont hurt your site’s rankings. A page’s slug is its url. For example, [link].

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 2, 2011

That person will get a domain name for you and design you a website according to your specifications. The internet is here to stay and you should just hop right on and take your piece of the pie too. You don’t even have to be computer savvy to do it. Hire a web designer. You will be surprised at how easy it is.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 11, 2012

Why pay for hosting, a domain name, and perhaps even website design? Because they serve no other purpose than to ‘have a presence on the web’ The business owners who have put these sites up would most likely admit to never having had a legitimate lead coming from their ‘web presence’ So why do they do it?

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 24, 2012

In fact, for the majority of websites, the main inbound link and associated text is to the home page using either the business name or the domain name as the link text. Natural human links come in a wide range of text formats, the majority of which are not keyword related.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

My conjecture is that small business owners who own their own domain names update their sites more often than those who don’t. It’s important to point out that this study was made only with customers of SiteKreator.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 6, 2014

domain names that are eight characters long are most effective. Facebook posts are liked and shared 86% of the time when they are short (40 characters) although you can go up to 80 characters and get a 66% response. readers tend to stick with a blog post for seven minutes (1,600 words) and, again, content trumps length.

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