Predict the Future and Grow Your Blog
If you own a website or a blog at some point you have to try and predict the future. Yes, in order to really be successful online you might find yourself going to extraordinary lengths in order to really increase traffic and visibility for your website. Try to think about the largest businesses and events in your industry and take this approach. Product Launches: Try to isolate some of the biggest companies in your space and set up some Google alerts for all their news related chatter. Look out for chatter for new product launches that might have surfaced and start preparing blog posts surrounding their launch. If you can be one of the first to write a good blog post surrounding a product launch there CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Have an SEO State of Mind
Being successful with search engine optimization for your own business or your career requires a person to be in an SEO mindset at all times. What this means is that you need to be thinking about how anything you put out into the search engines is going to react in the search results. Whether it is an article or a press release or even a business profile you should always be thinking about how that piece of information is going to bounce around the search space. For Example: Titles: Anytime you can utilize a title somewhere you should always have some keywords present. This doesn’t mean to spam every profile website or article submission site you can get your hands on but realize that a title with CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Wear Your Marketing Hat Often!
Optimizing a website is a craft that many acquire after going through the motions time and time again, and gaining the knowledge to do search engine optimization effectively. It is not about jamming keywords throughout your website with having the hopes of gaming the system along the way. Put all that nonsense aside bring some marketing to the table and watch your efforts work much more effectively. 1. User Experience: Think about the user experience for a minute. If you jam keywords all over each page where the flow of reading is disrupted then how is your audience going to respond to that? In order for them to pick up the phone and call you they need to be able to read your copy with no CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
RatePoint Product Review
RatePoint is in truth a one stop shop for businesses large and small to be able to grow their company through a variety of online marketing resources. RatePoint drastically improves your customer user experience by helping you increase your web marketing in areas like email, ratings & reviews, online surveys and social marketing. RatePoint can help any business listen to their customers and their audience a bit more in order to improve and streamline their business for the future while adding a significant grade of communication to the mix. Let’s take a look at the different ways RatePoint can help your business: Ratings and Reviews Feature from RatePoint: RatePoint offers a variety of testimonial tools and services that can help a business CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Don’t Forget About Online Branding
With no real industry regulation around or even on the horizon, search engine optimization has really taken on many different definitions over the last ten years. Is social media a part of it? Is it not? What should be included in SEO and what shouldn’t? The reality is the Google and other search engines favor a branding like approach when building a website online. Here is one major reason: Time: If you are fly by night black hat spammer you are most likely not going to take the time to sit there and brand your business online, why? Because it takes time. The search engines realize that if you spend time in the social communities and connect with other like minded websites to strengthen your industry with CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Your Homepage Should be Clean
I come across home pages of many websites that look like they are about to give a person a seizure. Blinking buttons, too many call to actions and a lack of focus can really hurt a business or a website in many different ways. A website home page should always funnel down quickly to the action needed. 1. Focus: Don’t feel like you have to shove everything you have onto the home page of your website. If you have a good brand and business people will make it around your website and find what else you have to offer. You don’t have to hit your audience with every single promotion your business offers right when they arrive at your website. Focus on the most important news or CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Low Cost Social Media Traffic Generators
Traffic to a website can often times take a great deal of time depending on what your timeline and expectations are. Everyone wants traffic fast but often times that is easier said than done. Pay per click advertising can be very expensive and search engine optimization is long term, so where do you start? When approached strategically social media can often times bring in traffic fairly quickly at a relatively low cost compared to things like pay per click advertising. If you have a little extra time on your hands writing some content, connecting with like minds and pushing your message can entice very qualified visitors to come over to your website to see more. Here are a few ideas on how social media can pull in CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Journal is Written by SEO Expert:
Nick Stamoulis
Tel - 781-999-1222
nick@brickmarketing.com
Brick Marketing - SEO Company
