SEO is a big determinant of how high your site ranks in search engine results pages. Making sure your site is spider-friendly can help visitors discover your site and your blog more easily.
Search engine spiders “crawl” your pages to find out what’s on your site and to categorize it for placement in search engine results. [...]
New bloggers and bloggers who are new to blog marketingmay not use or understand trackbacks. A trackback is an automated notification that someone has posted a link to your blog in their blog. The notification appears in your blog in the comments related to the post being blogged about. So the question is: “From a [...]
It sounds like strange question for a business blogger, but many business bloggers don’t know who their ideal customers are. Not knowing your ideal customer can lead you to make serious errors in your blog marketing strategy, and can cause all kinds of grief in the long term.
Knowing your ideal customer will help you fine-tune [...]
To make the most of business blogging, you’ll need to commit some time and energy toward learning good blogging techniques. While your blog content should focus on your audience, you’ll want to stay mindful of the opportunities you’ll have to promote, optimize and market your blog.
A good training course can help you recognize and manage [...]
There are many ways to start and support a business blog, but to make your efforts productive, consider how your blog fits into your overall site.
Unfortunately, many business blogs are not truly integrated into a corporate Web site. They look like an afterthought, and optimization efforts suffer as a result. The very best business blogs [...]
Last week, I talked about the value of enabling comments on your blogs. Comments from readers are like gold because they can tell you how well you’re reaching them with your message. Leaving comments on other blogs is likewise valuable, not only as a blog promotion tool, but also as a way to keep up [...]
One of the best things you can do for your business blog is to spend a bit of time thinking about it. Lots of business bloggers jump in with both feet, only to find that their blog isn’t producing the site traffic they hoped to see. In this case, it’s easy to get discouraged. [...]
Blog promotion can come in a variety of ways. You can promote your blog via directories and catalogs, via links in forums that are related to your subject matter, word-of-mouth in communities that are interested in your business area, and through other blogs.
The Wall Street Journal ran an article yesterday (unfortunately, it’s available only [...]
You know that you need to promote your blog, and you know about blog directories and catalogs, but you’re looking for other ways to build links. Blog promotion isn’t limited to directory listings. You can use other avenues to build permanent links to your blog and to your site.
First, look at your business. What do [...]
Small business owners are developing a big interest in RSS marketing. Business blogging is just hitting stride, and on the horizon are other exciting tools that can improve search engine visibility and draw customers to your site.
Drawing customers to a site is one thing, but how do you keep them coming back? A good RSS [...]