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Internet Marketing

How to Utilize Your Website’s Title Tags

By Jason Lomberg   |   August 20, 2010

When optimizing your small business website for high search engine rankings, targeted search engines such as Google and Bing, the first step is writing keyword driven title tags.  The title tag is the title on the top left of your browser window.

Search engines put a lot of weight on these titles when ranking your website.  Many small business websites utilize the company name or the name of that Webpage as the page title which is typically a mistake if you want to rank that Webpage for targeted keyword phrases. Read More »


Outsourcing Social Media: 13 Tasks You May Want To Delegate

By Susan Rice Lincoln   |   August 10, 2010

So, you have decided, for whatever reason, that managing your presence on the Social Web is simply too much for you. Before you go out shopping for a supplier to help you with your social media tasks, it is important that you are clear about the type of help/services you need.

Listed below are a variety of tasks you may want to delegate: Read More »


Haven’t Thought (or Shot) a Video? Maybe You Should!

By Kim Sheehan   |   August 7, 2010

Youtube is hot: thousands of videos are uploaded and millions are viewed every day on the video channel. Do you think Youtube is only for bored junior high school kids? It’s not! Many small businesses are creating videos and uploading them to Youtube. Why?

I think it is a combination of the popularity of Youtube and the ease of  using Flip Cams and other small, point-and-shoot cameras. Today, videos don’t even need editing or fancy soundtracks to become popular.

Della Mendenhall, whose family owns the Indianapolis florist Gillespie Florist,  Read More »


Advanced SEO Strategies – Keyword Driven URL Structure

By Jason Lomberg   |   August 6, 2010

It is an enormous advantage to develop your search engine optimization strategy before the development of your Website.  Best practices are to do your keyword research then develop your Website based on these results.

Each Webpage should have its own SEO strategy based on targeted keyword phrases.  Your  competitive advantage is in developing  your URL structure to match the keyword strategy for that page.

URL structure strategy includes three parts: Read More »


What’s the Value in Your Website’s Sitemap to Search Engines

By Debbie Campbell   |   July 25, 2010

Sitemaps can be helpful both for your human visitors and for search engine optimization (SEO) – the art and science of improving the visibility of a website in search engine listings. Learn about sitemaps and how they can help your business website get noticed.

What is a sitemap?

There are two kinds of sitemaps – Read More »


Is Outsourcing Social Media A Good Idea?

By Susan Rice Lincoln   |   July 24, 2010

Is outsourcing social media is even good idea?

Not so long ago, you would have been accused of being a heretic by even bringing up the idea of outsourcing your conversation with your prospects or consumers in the social media.  The naysayers argued that the concept of outsourcing is completely against the spirit of social media.

But in the space of a few months, I have noticed that those voices have been silenced.  Read More »


“Social Media Doesn’t Work,” Expert Says

By Charlie Cook   |   July 22, 2010

I can’t believe what I just saw.

It’s a video, where the world’s #1 expert in social media marketing actually admits that social media doesn’t work.

Watch “Social Media Doesn’t Work” here >> Read More »


SEO Strategies For Your Small Business Website

By Jason Lomberg   |   July 20, 2010

Don’t you wish you could be on page 1 of Google? I’m going to discuss seo tips to enhance your organic search and get you moved up in the rankings.

Natural Search Engine Optimization

Natural search engine optimization is using on-site and off-site techniques to get naturally ranked high on Google or other search engines for targeted keyword phrases.  As a small business targeting a local area it is too costly and time consuming to rank for general terms without targeting the location. Read More »


Can You Really Make Money With Social Media

By Charlie Cook   |   July 18, 2010

If you’ve been wondering how to make money with social media…

…or if you’ve tried social media and given up in frustration because it didn’t work for your business…

…then you can’t afford to miss this free new video. Read More »


Are You Making This Social Media Mistake?

By Charlie Cook   |   July 15, 2010

I’ve heard it again and again.

Maybe you have to.

Maybe you’ve even said it yourself.

“Social media doesn’t work.  It’s a waste of time and money.  And there’s no way to turn it into cold, hard cash.” Read More »