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Reader Highlight: Loren Wade of Zionic Life

Posted on 30th August, by Anne in Blogging, Interviews, Succeeding. No Comments

Loren Wade is starting out, just like you. Learn how he’s making things work and join the discussion around how to get started!



How to Use a Blog for Small Business Website Marketing

Part Seven of The Small Business Website Guide for Business Owners

We’ve reached the final leg of the Small Business Website Guide: learning how to market your new small business website. We’ve come a long way – you now know how to think about a website, how to prepare for one, how to handle the creation process and finally, how to prepare for search engines to show you off just right.

Are you ready for the last stretch?

Here is a quick look at Part Seven, which covers how to use a blog for your small business marketing strategy:

Back to basics: What is a blog?
The pitfalls of having a blog
Blogs are great for search engine optimization
Blogs are great for growing traffic
Blogs are great for building community
Blogs are great for giving you focus
Blogs are great for driving conversions
You are stupid to not even try having … Read More »



Choosing Keywords and Blog topics

Posted on 16th October, by Anne in Blogging. 1 Comment

A friend gave me a tip the other day- when you are creating a website or writing a blog you should know what people are actually looking for.

My question: How do you know what people are looking for?

For bloggers:

Out of ideas? Want to write about the latest buzz? Check out google.com/trends and see for yourself just what’s hot! A sweet graphic shows you whether the search rates are still going up or if people have stopped searching for a term so much.

For website developers/designers:

So you’re working for a client who wants an SEO website for their main key terms. You don’t want to spam the whole site with the same exact phrases and you want to phrases you choose to use to be solid terms. How do you find out? Check out Read More »