Small Business Mavericks

JULY 26, 2012

Are you linking to your social media profiles? In fact, fewer than 20% of SMBs link to social media profiles, and they’re making a big mistake. There are two primary reasons you should link from your website or blog to social media websites : It builds your social authority. Social Media As SEO.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 20, 2011

According to an article on My Edmonds News website, small businesses stand to profit more from social media than big businesses or corporations. So what is meant by social media? Small businesses owners only have to spend a few minutes a day on two or three social networking sites to see any benefits.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 29, 2013

There are a lot of ways to make social media work for you, but it’s important in this age of search + social to approach social media with the right frame of mind. There are some good reasons to believe that a sound social media strategy is the best link building policy of today.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 15, 2016

But today I want to talk about using social media for lead generation. There are many things that affect the ROI of your social media. Other benefits to social media lead generation include: Top-of-mind awareness for your brand. Improving search engine optimization. Identify Your Main Objective.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 22, 2015

Social media has come a long way since the days of Friendster and MySpace. But other social media websites have upped the ante in some very real ways. YouTube, for instance, is the second largest search engine on the planet. Facebook was a game changer in a big way. What Constitutes a Lead?

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 22, 2015

Social media has come a long way since the days of Friendster and MySpace. But other social media websites have upped the ante in some very real ways. YouTube, for instance, is the second largest search engine on the planet. Facebook was a game changer in a big way. What Constitutes a Lead?

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

For about five years now, we have seen social media marketing rise to the top of the Internet marketing practices and become the most important aspect of marketing and branding online. The social media sites themselves are striving to be No. That is, don’t just settle for one social media site.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 16, 2015

Most of us spend a lot more than 30 minutes on social media, but many of us wish we could figure out how to do it. Twelve Things Social Media Managers Do. There are at least a dozen tasks that any good social media manager has to maintain. Social Media social media manager social media marketing'

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 28, 2012

If you are looking to catch the attention of social media visitors, then you need to write titles that will hook into their needs and their emotions. Questions often stand out in social media – people can’t help but check out the possible answers.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Social media can be fun. But if you are using social media to promote your business, here are eight ways to make it pay off no matter how much time you spend on it. Create a posting schedule – You can keep your social media content focused by providing a calendar or content schedule.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Social media can be fun. But if you are using social media to promote your business, here are eight ways to make it pay off no matter how much time you spend on it. Create a posting schedule – You can keep your social media content focused by providing a calendar or content schedule.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 28, 2012

One could say that blogging is as much social media as SEO. In fact, while your blog posts have the potential to rank in the search engines for your keywords, they also have the potential to viral at the drop of a hat. Add the icons to every blog post and watch your social engagement rise.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We hear a lot of information about how social media is a great marketing tool. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is actually the better way to go for small businesses. A recent Merchant Confidence Survey shows that 35% of small businesses use and are optimized by SEO over the social media marketing.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

» Is E-mail Marketing More Effective Than Social Media Marketing? What may surprise many small business owners is that social media marketing is so far down the list, especially when it comes to two-way communications. This compared to only 8% for search engines and 5% for social media.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 11, 2012

Social media, handled correctly, can take a small business and carry it towards success quite quickly. It seems that every brick and mortar business that has an online presence has also invited customers to join them in the social media environment. Google local is a great advance in search engine results.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 12, 2012

If you aim for daily, you’ll at least have the search engine visiting your site daily, and we know that fresh is best if you have the quality. ” There is an answer, and you’ll find it through the various social media channels. Some small business blog writers find that two or three times a week is sufficient.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

So how do they improve your social media appeal? Images are amongst the most shared content on the Internet, especially through social media websites like Facebook and StumbleUpon. Pinterest is the latest social media sharing site, and that too has a heavy leaning towards images.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 1, 2012

If so, are they hindering your ability to convert traffic to sales, achieve respectable search engine rankings, and promote your website through other means? Search engine optimization – Most websites still receive 80% of their traffic from search engines. You should have a social media plan.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 25, 2011

I’d be willing to bet that most online marketers are spending too much time on social media or unproductive channels. Social media is fun. It’s a well known fact that 80%-85% of traffic for almost every website online comes from the search engines. Social media is good. It’s fun.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 6, 2016

Search engines. Social media. Search Engine Marketing as an Inbound Marketing Channel. When we talk about search engine marketing we usually are referring to search engine optimization (SEO) and pay-per-click advertising. Inbound Marketing Through Social Media. Online advertising.

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

And Search Engine Journal’s Albert Costill just took a look at how black hat social media can hurt your business. Along with some great observations, these 6 warning signs were mentioned: paying people to be active on your social media content with likes, comments, subscribes, or clicks. How is this any good?

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In the article Ian Harris wrote for Search Engine Journal, he suggests 12 things you should be doing right now for semantic search. Don’t forget social media — consistently offer information and answers. Search Engine Optimization Still Works. search engines semantic search SEO' A Dozen Things To Do.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 24, 2013

The search engines ignore them. As far as the meta description tag goes, it’s still useful, but the search engines don’t always use it. Search engine submission services get your site indexed – No they don’t. Search engine submission services get your site indexed – No they don’t.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 22, 2011

This invites the search engine spiders back to your site to crawl it. Increased Search Engine Rankings – Not only do you have more opportunities to rank with each blog post, but each blog post can rank according to its own merits. Every blog post is considered a separate web page by the search engines. If not, why not?

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 28, 2013

I think there are more search engine benefits to using Google+ than all the other social networks. It’s been clear for some time that the more you use a social network (any social network), then the more likely you are to rise in the search engine rankings for your brand name.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 31, 2011

Both major search engines – Google and Bing – include Twitter in their search results. Here are a few based on my own observations: Be aware of your text – Just like anchor text, the search engines likely use the text within your tweets to determine what a link is about. So how can Twitter help you improve your SEO?

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Search engine optimization is constantly changing. A few years ago, no one thought about social media. There weren’t any social media strategies. There were SEO strategies , but they didn’t involve social media. There were SEO strategies , but they didn’t involve social media.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 4, 2016

Search results – Search engine optimization is a key component to online branding today. Not only should you concern yourself with search engine results, but you should give serious thought to how you want your company to be represented in the search results. Keep it simple, but have a POV.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 14, 2015

Here are six powerful ways to generate leads for any business using the tools of the Internet in 2015: Social Media – Social media really needs no introduction, but there are a ton of channels to choose from. Search Engine Optimization – Search engine optimization is still a valid approach to lead generation.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 9, 2013

As a way to organize social information on Twitter, hashtags became very popular on that social media platform and still are. What was not expected was other social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Google+ picking up on hashtags. That’s four social networks that use hashtags.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 30, 2012

If you’ve wondered when it would happen, here’s the good news : Google+ is now being integrated into search engine results. It means that, more and more, small business owners should think about using Google+ as a social media service. But what does that mean for you?

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 5, 2011

They’ve abandoned the old-fashioned Internet marketing channel of search engine optimization in favor of the easier to manage social media channel. The reason businesses are abandoning SEO in favor of social media is because it is getting more and more difficult. Google constantly updates its algorithms.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The search engines will rank you. I certainly believe that social media has changed the stakes of the game. You can feasibly build a business model completely around social media marketing, in which case keywords are not necessary. Just write content, he says. Is there wisdom in that or is it a bit misguided?

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 2, 2011

Too many small business owners get social media happy early on and forget that the search engines deliver the lion’s share of traffic to websites overall. While social media is more difficult to track than other channels, it does have a kind of branding power that can augment your other channels.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 14, 2014

The folks who argue in favor of long, in-depth and well-researched articles argue that they are better for SEO and achieve great search engine factors based on the strength of their on-page SEO and the ability of the blogger to promote them through social media and attract inbound links. They make some good points. So who wins?

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Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Here are those three tactics you should plan on using for a long, long time: Search engine optimization – There are a limited number of ways people will find your website. They may find it by word of mouth, social media sharing, or they can find it by searching for specific concepts in one of the several search engines online.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 4, 2012

It should include your website design strategy, search engine optimization , social media, e-mail marketing, and brand placement. After we answer these questions about your website and your business, we’ll then develop a strategy that works for your type of business.

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