When considering all aspects that will make your blog more visible in search engines, link building should be on the list, if not close to the top.  According to Wikipedia, “Reciprocal linking between websites is an important part of the search engine optimization process because Google uses link popularity algorithms (defined as the number of [...]

Just yesterday, Marketing Journal came out with a blog taken from Ryan P. Allis’s book “Zero to One Million” called The 20 Keys to Online Marketing.  Although all 20 items (which can be viewed by clicking on the link above) are quite relevant to the topic of blog marketing, it is more pertinent to take [...]

So. What do you say when you have been away from blogging for awhile? How does one conduct a smooth re-entry? That is what I’m pondering as we resume posting here at RSS Applied. Well, we’ll learn that together, since I’ve found some good suggestions in my search for that very answer.

But first, [...]

How often has a customer walked into your office, shook your hand and told you how much he has enjoyed reading your print ads? Or that he makes a point of driving by your billboard everyday? Yes, rhetorical questions, but you get the point. There is absolutely no way you can engage your customers, [...]

Blog marketing isn’t confined to brick and mortar operations by any means. In fact, the role that blogging can play in consultancy is amazingly versatile. Using blogs, RSS publishing, video and podcasting gives the consultant an amazing array of tools to broadcast their expertise to their target market. Moreover, it allows the consultant unfettered freedom [...]

Unlike a print or radio ad campaign where, once verbiage and images have been signed off on you are done, business blogging and social media marketing is almost a living thing, requiring your attention on a daily basis. But unlike that print or TV ad that fades from your customer’s memory as soon as it [...]

If you have taken any blog training, you no doubt are feeling that you have the formula down for search engine optimization and blog marketing. You probably may also be vaguely familiar with the love hate relationship between SEO and Google. One SEO expert suggests that the formula that you have learned, if applied without [...]

When it comes to promoting your business online there are plenty of places to turn. Of course you can always advertise, but remember: advertising creates awareness, not sales. It’s good, hard marketing that builds your sales percentages.
Advertising and marketing combined will, however, build your search engine visibility. People today use search engines to find information, [...]

Thanks to my colleague Peter Kim, I’ve been tagged so I have to respond with this post. What’s going on? There’s this viral thing going on called "Blog-Tag" where the blogger writes five things about themselves not widely known, and then "tags" five other people to continue the chain. This online tagging game was recently [...]