When it comes to blogging, blog post titles have a lot to do with how your blog is seen (and ranked) by the search engines. If all things were equal, clever titles would entice readers, but search engines neither look at blog posts equally, nor are they particularly clever. As hard as it might be, […]

What is the difference between a search engine and an RSS feed? Search engines and RSS feeds are two different tools work together - like a set of gears - to drive different parts of your marketing strategy. A solid approach uses both search engine visibility and RSS marketing to get visitors to a site […]

If you’re new to business blogging and blog optimization, try developing a limited set of keywords that you can use frequently in your posts. General keywords won’t produce a satisfying search engine result. You’ll need to find descriptive keywords that lead your readers directly to your blog. It’s much better to reach a small […]

Looking at this recent report about online car buyers brings back memories of my father who sold cars for a living. Dad would have been a huge fan of blog marketing.

One in five in-market consumers surveyed - approximately 20 percent - said they would likely to buy a vehicle over the internet if such a […]

Warning: this is a rant - a rant to small retailers.

It’s called blog marketing people! It’s called search engine optimization! It’s called optimizing for local search!If you small retailers practiced it, finding you would not be akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
Missing in Local Search
I’m looking for unique baby gifts. I have a […]

The Chartered Institute of Marketing in the U.K recently said that businesses need to invest in SEO if they want to survive online. They go on to say how most people “Google” a word to find a business. If you are a real estate broker in Denver, Colorado and someone Googles “real estate broker in […]

It would seem that most businesses these days are still not getting involved in business blogging. Here are some statistics from an article published on eMarketer.com:

Only 5% of UK corporations use blogs on a regular basis
5.8% of Fortune 500 Companies have a public blog
1.5% of Forbes 200 Best Small Companies have a public blog

I […]

RSS publishing is a powerful tool for disseminating your content and increasing your traffic and search engine visibility. Personally, I have become a feed glutton, my reader serving up a full banquet of research and reading entrees from the blogs I have found to have a hearty serving of relevant content.
As soon as I […]

The Wall Street Journal gives a good overview on the success that a variety of businesses have achieved via business blogging. And as expected, the assessments are all positive.

Blog Marketing Successes
A forensic accounting expert never had one case come her way via the company website. Her inclusion of blog marketing brought her the search engine […]

A food manufacturer pays a pretty price to have his product displayed on the shelf where the customer will most likely see it. That shelf is expensive because it’s high visibility will afford his brand optimum exposure,thus, producing more sales.

Now consider your website. Every page in your web site is a “shelf” designed to achieve […]