When it comes to ranking for your local business, do you know what search engine ranking factors are working for you? There are a ton of them, actually. But I’m going to list 5 of them here. For the most part, local search rankings are powered by universal search ranking factors, but there is a…
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Where To Get Blog Post Ideas
Where do you get your ideas for blog posts? Here are 5 ways I’ve used to get blog posts ideas and all of these will work for you too. It doesn’t matter what niche you are in or what kind of blog you write, you can generate ideas for blog posts using these easy and…
My MWF Plan
Just a quick note to make an announcement. And, no, I’m not going to promise to drop gas prices to $2.50 a gallon. What I will say is that Taylor and Associates is going to adopt a 3-day blogging schedule. From here going forward we will post to this blog on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday….
3 Truths About Content Publishing
When it comes to publishing your website content online, there are three basic and fundamental truths that you need to keep in mind as you develop a content plan. You have to publish often If you publish too often, then you run the risk of being flagged as a spammer or not being able to…
Blogger Blogs And Article Marketing
The interesting thing about Blogger blogs is that this is a Google product that doesn’t require any inbound links to rank in the search engines. Typically, when you create a website that website won’t get crawled or indexed by the search engines until it has some inbound links pointing to it. Not so with Blogger…
7 Truths About Online Marketing Today
While considering the plight of small business Internet marketing this weekend, I came up with 7 truths about online marketing right now that cannot be ignored. Quality content is better than quantity Social media is a necessity Building relationships is key Small business search engine marketing is almost all local You can’t improve what you…
The Evolution Of SEO Practices
Michael Martinez is a lot smarter than I am, but he starts off with a premise that I’ve been saying for five years now, namely, that the SEO profession has been divided by two extremes – The “content is king” purists and the “link building is gold” extremists. He goes on to say that most…
Where Is Blogging Headed In 2012?
Instead of writing a long post about where blogging is going, and where it is now, I decided that today I’d just share a video. Shani Higgins can say it better than I can anyway. And she’s got the clout to back it up. In summary, however, this is what you’ll hear (my paraphrasing): Blogging…
How To Maintain Your WordPress Blog
Blogging is an activity that has become important for many businesses. Even in rural areas like Adams County, the nature of online marketing has made blogging an almost necessity. The benefits to having a business blog are legion and businesses shouldn’t go without at least exploring it as an option. But you’ll keep your blog…
How To Repurpose Content
Every now and then you should take some of your old content and repurpose it. If you’ve never done that, then you might wonder just how to repurpose old content. Which content should you repurpose and where should you repurpose it? Let’s start with which content should be repurposed. The best content to re-use for…