Using Search to Optimize Your Online Marketing Strategy – A Key to Your Online Business Success

Effective search marketing ensures that you will get your information in front of the right audience, but it is only one piece of a successful marketing strategy. Once you bring visitors to your site, your content must be valuable, your messages congruent, and your call to action clear. Read more »

Generating Valuable Traffic: When It Comes To Keywords, More Is Not Always Better

As search engines have evolved, marketers have had to adapt their tactics to remain effective. The currents are changing again, as we can respond by thinking differently about how we identify and utilize keywords. Read more »

Why Search Engines Exist: What They Do & How They Do it

If you wish to market anything online, you will need to figure out how to let people find your online presence. That generally happens when a prospect conducts a search. This is the first in a series of articles designed to help marketers master the various forms of search marketing. In order to effectively use any tool, you first need to understand how it works. So this first article will explain the foundation on which search marketing is built - the search engines, why they exist and how they function. Read more »

Leverage Your Split Personality to Improve Your Blog Traffic and Keep In Tune With Your Tribe

Once you decide to use blogging as a tool for personal branding, social media or business promotion, the process can drive you to a severely split personality. On the one hand, our primary audience is made up of people, and people like to read actual prose.  They like to read words and see visions in [...] Read more »

Using WordPress.org to Create Your Blog or Business Website

If you have previously had a website, I bet you have said, or at least thought, one or all of these things: “#@&%!!, I just crashed my website!” “My developer can do that, but it’s going to cost an arm & a leg” “Wasted 3 hours!  What happened to my updates??” These are all pretty [...] Read more »