Want your business to rank higher in Google and Bing? Tighten up your keyword strategy. Let's review what keywords are, and how you can harness them to boost your business.
By Brandon Kosters · March 03 2023
seo, keywords, keyword strategy, digital marketing
Tips from March 18, 2010 The Small Business tips today discuss SEO (search engine optimization) for blogs.
Keep your content fresh. The easiest tip for SEO is to have great content that will get you found without much promoting. The quality of your work and original content will get you found on the top search engines.
Keywords - Important words that people will search for search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, or Bing, are important when creating your blog post. Keywords should be in your title, subtitle, URL, and tags.
Posting links to your blog in outside sources provides links back to your website. Unfortunately, this could also be labeled as spam if done incorrectly. Keep posting your blogs on comments to other blogs in your industry, or those that you know personally and professionally. Don't get too carried away, you could ruin your reputation.
Social media provides a great way to provide a link for others outside your...
By Cheryl Sowa · March 18 2010
small business tips, small business, seo, search engine optimization
Tips from February 2, 2010 The Small Business tips today discuss common SEO mistakes.
Duplicating Content: Your content is plagiarized, and not original. You lose the optimization of the words on your website if they are not original.
Poor Design & Usability: Broken links are killers for SEO. Come up with a creative, yet useful design that your visitors will be able to navigate.
Same Meta Description on Each Page: To the SEO world, your websites have the same content. Your meta description should be specific and unique to every page.
Over-stuffing Keywords: You are essentially spamming your own website, as it becomes unreadable in SEO terms. This could get you blocked/banned from some search engines or sites, such as Google.
Daily Overview: Trying to manipulate SEO to get your website better rankings leads to many mistakes and poor rankings. Avoid this by having a knowledge of the SEO world, track your websi...
By Cheryl Sowa · February 02 2010
small business tips, small business, seo, keywords
Government and Economy
Obama Takes Office, Saying Choose 'Hope Over Fear'
Stepping into history, Barack Hussein Obama grasped the reins of power as America's first black president on Tuesday, saying the nation must choose "hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord" to overcome the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Wall Street Falls Amid Increasing Banking Worries
The dawn of the Obama presidency could not rouse Wall Street from its worries over the banking industry's mounting problems as investors continued to sell and the major indexes drop...
By Charles M Cooper · January 20 2009
small business brief, small business, economy, sales