Is Guest Blogging Really Dead? Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts, cautioned webmasters not to use guest blogging as a link building strategy. Post quality has slid over the years due to guest blogging. It has also become a dirty little secret that “authors” will pay for their blog posts to appear on high PageRank sites. Everyone knows that...
Read MoreRanking Your Website With SEO – When You Do It Wrong…
A company recently showed that shortcuts with Google are still a big no-no and that SEO remains a long-term play. Google just essentially took a large site off their rankings when they learned that they were getting gamed. Rap Genius, a multimillion dollar site has been written on for its successful search-engine strategies. However, when they asked...
Read MoreBusinesses – Don’t Fall For This Marketing Scam
We get certain phone calls or emails monthly from clients and non-clients alike. They all go like this… “Hey, I got this bill from the yellow pages I think… can you look at it for me and tell me what to do?” We always say yes, and it is 99 times out of 100 a yellow pages scam from some company who “looks” like the...
Read MoreThe online business growth guidelines that nobody wants to let you know
Growing your company is a full-time gig. You’ve grown your small business by being very effective at it all. Few of us that own a business just go home after a full day and easily turn it off. So, that means we tend to take what we do personally and sometimes do not want to hear when someone suggests you could be doing something in different...
Read MoreHow to Redesign your Website Without Losing Your SEO Mojo
Was your old site was starting to look a little stale? Now for most people a website re-design can do a lot to increase conversions and reduce bounce rates, however if you do not do it correctly you could wind up losing your valuable SEO rankings and losing major traffic consequently. This means you need to make sure to follow all of the necessary steps to...
Read MoreHow To Reduce Online Returns For Your Business
Over the past decade, retailers have seen a dramatic rise in the amount of people choosing to shop online. This holiday season is seeing comparison shopping going through the roof (Nielsen). People are tired of sleeping in tents for a week, when they can get the same deals with a couple of clicks. Competing online retailers are now forced to come up with...
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