Have you ever checked the ratings or times of a movie online? Have you looked up reviews for local restaurants? Have you wondered where to buy that specialty ingredient or tool? If you are a local business owner, your customers are doing the exact same thing. You can help them …
Friday Night Links: Social Media is Still Changing
Every time you think you know how to use a tool, it gets a new twist. This week’s twist is Facebook’s announcement of Facebook Pages 2.0. Without further ado: Official Facebook announcement: An Upgrade for Pages (via Facebook) Staying consistent with a recent profile upgrade, Facebook Pages are also getting …
10 Easy Onpage SEO Changes
Your SEO can be influenced by every new addition to your website. However, sometimes you want a solution that is faster than calling someone in to help. If you improve one page at a time, following these steps will give you a clear advantage without lifting another finger. Scroll down …
9 Ways to Measure SEO Improvements
When you begin the sometimes tedious process of changing your website to become search engine optimized, you might start to wonder whether or not anything you’re doing is really making a difference. And what good are goals like “improve the bottom line” if you can’t tell whether or not you …
11 Fun and Efficient Ways for Getting Backlinks
If you have a website or a blog and you want to be visible online, you need backlinks – which is the shorter way of saying you need other sites and blogs to link to you. Some people will make link-building sound like an impossible mission. Or worse, they will …
Friday Night Links: From Anger to Advice
This week’s collection of links includes a few passionate and even angry posts, including the ones following our headline feature, the Bing vs. Google finger-pointing. If you want to get past the anger and sarcasm to some fun and useful advice, cheer up with the articles about the best Facebook …
3 Most Inspiring Books on Social Media
The Web has changed the business world big time. You no longer need to spend millions of dollars to get decent exposure. In fact, with a relevant market plan, you can reach whoever you want to reach at ridiculously low costs. Moreover, you can measure your efforts. Some companies still …
Facebook for Businesses: 5 Do’s and Don’ts
Even if your business is new to Facebook, your customers are not. Understanding how companies are expected to use Facebook – and then doing that well – is the key to getting people to press the Like button and become a fan. Here are a few things not to do …
Friday Night Links: First Edition
It’s Friday! Take time to have some fun while (or after) you check out some of the links from around the SEO industry this week. Check out a few technical tips, some ideas for new content, and lots of great information! This will be the first of many of our “Friday …
How SEO and Flash Can Coexist
It’s a pretty common thought that SEO and Flash live on two different planets. If you want to have a great site that ranks organically, you can’t have Flash. If you’re some fancy artist whose SEO potential is limited, you need a flash site to show your flair – because …