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The 12 Most Useful Social Bookmarking & Autoposting Tools for Your Blog
Sunday, March 16th, 2008
As bloggers, we’re always trying to encourage our readers to post our blogs to one of the many social bookmarking services… be it digg, delicious, mixx, reddit, stumbleupon or one of the myriad others. There are many different wordpress plugins for different social sites. The problem is that your blog ends up cluttered with all of those buttons, and it really gets annoying.
The solution has been the plugins that allow you to post to any or many of the social networks. Here’s an overview of all of the ones that I’ve found (with some of my lovely comments to boot). One of the most popular players - sharethis, has received $15 million dollars in funding!
Online Video for Small Businesses - Can I afford it?
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
It all started with Youtube and Viral marketing. It spread to personal multimedia on websites. It continued with Rovion… For $3,000 you could have a professional nudge on your site bugging all your repeat visitors (but it looks cool). Microsoft’s bought it, and servicemagic has as well. The problem is that it’s really expensive. But, we’re nice people, and we want small business owners to benefit as well.
Want to put video on your site? Here’s a couple of resources:
Do You Follow the Nofollow? Get the Story - and The Linkjuice!
Monday, February 25th, 2008The dofollow - nofollow debate has been a topic that was beaten into the dirt… Here’s a little rerun of some of the story.
Issue:
The concept of Google’s page-rank algorithm is based on the structure used to rank the authority of academic articles. The assumption is that any academic article that is quoted by other sites is more authoritative. Google applies that to websites, and assumes that the more links coming in to a site, the more relevant it is to the keywords that it’s linked into with.
Say What?
Mark Cook over at Digerati Marketing compares the internet to a flower show.
USA Today’s Steve Strauss Encourages Small Business Owners to have Blogs
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008John Janstch alerted me to an article in the USA Today online that adresses whether business owners should have blogs.
Steve Strauss gives 5 reasons a small business owner should have a blog:
- You help build a sense of community - in other words, you build a relationship with the customer, so they see you as a real person… not just a webpage
- They allow you to plug products
- They help with SEO - I use the blog here solely for SEO (as well as to get new clients - I’ll get to the plug at the end
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17 Useful Wordpress SEO and other plugins
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008- All in One SEO Pack - This is an absolutely vital plugin for every blog that you have. This allows you to change your Title, description and keyword metatags on each blog post to make them unique, as well as to make a default home page title and description. I credit this plugin with about 30% of the credit for my rankings on some of my keywords.
- AutoMeta - This tag kind of conflicts with the All-in-one SEO packplugin, as it automatically creates the titles and descriptions. I still have to see how this works with All-in-One SEO pack
The Los Angeles Times Free Local Business Listing
Monday, February 4th, 2008While searching on Google for Los Angeles Business Directories, I found that the LA Times has a free one. I had never heard of it before, and it’s free, so I figured, hey, may as well give it a shot.
If you have a business in Los Angeles, go ahead and post it there.
Top 3 Questions from SmallBusiness Owners About Online Marketing
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Local Business Owner Three Biggest Questions about search – and the answers:
1) Do people really search for local services online?
2) Can I afford to get traffic from the internet?
Blogging for Yourself, the User and the Search Engine - a 2008 resolution
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008As you may or may not know, I am a big believer in blogging. It is a valuable way of
1)expressing your personality,
2)creating a connection with your users, and
3)getting valuable SE ranking.
The question is which one comes first? You might think this is a trivial question. It’s not.When I started blogging on About Results Marketing, I had merely bought a cool expiring domain for something I had wanted to do in the future - consulting in SEO, SEM and online marketing.
Why is Clever Hack Outranking Yahoo for “hack yahoo fantasy football”?
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Joy over at Clever Hack is curious why she is ranking number one for “hack yahoo fantasy football“.
I just did a little research, and I saw that not only is she #1, but number two and three and five are websites that just took her RSS feed!
Getting a little jealous - (hey I want number two and three for my keywords to be filled with my own RSS feeds), I promptly decided to sign up with the same sites that show up for number two and three and five -
Should an Ecommerce Website Have a Blog?
Thursday, December 6th, 2007(Disclaimer: I am extremely biased towards blogs. I have already come to the conclusion that blogs are always beneficial. Consider yourself warned!)
Here are the issues:
- What are the pro’s and con’s of having a blog on your ecommerce site (The Theory)
- What are the other experts in the field saying about having blogs on your ecommerce site
- What are the big guys doing?
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What are the Pro’s and Con’s of having a Blog on your Ecommerce site?