Build Traffic to Your Blog with Blog Directory Submissions
Building relevant traffic for our blog is often the biggest challenge we face. One great way to generate links and traffic is to register your blog with popular blog directories. WebsiteMagazine.com recently published a list of 30 popular blog directories. I’ve taken this list and turned it into a blog submission tracking spreadsheet that you can download and use to track your efforts in submitting your blog to the relevant blog directories on the list. 30 Popular Blog Directories Use this list to generate additional traffic for your blog by Visiting each of these directories and...
Read MoreSocial Media Essentials for Business – You’re Invited
You’re invited to attend Social Media Essentials for Business - a free teleseminar on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Executive Coach and best selling author, Marsha Egan, will interview me on why, as a business owner or manager, it’s essential that you add social media to your marketing mix. We’ll discuss the major social media platforms and give examples of how you can use these to build your brand, establish your authority, create relationships and turn those relationships into partnerships, prospects, customers and profits. View the following video for a message from me as to...
Read MoreSEO is NOT Dead
Micah, who I had the pleasure to meet at Wordcamp Denver recently tweeted, “If you do SEO for a living, you will be out of business or irrelevant in 3 years.” Naturally this got a lot of response. To clarify and expand on his tweet he posted an article titled, “SEO is Dead” on his Learn to Duck blog where he contends that not only is SEO dead but that all of the SEO’ers have reinvented themselves as social media marketers and are now ruining social media. Micah, as you can tell, doesn’t have a problem being a lightening rod. What he contends is that all we...
Read MoreGoogle Likes Blogs; Why You Should Too!
Do you still wonder why (or if) you should be blogging? I’m going to give you 3 hardly comprehensive reasons… Customers & Prospects like blogs with good, relevant content that addresses their interests, opportunities or needs. You can engage those customers and prospects at a deeper level than through traditional marketing media. More importantly, you can engage them with value that often creates obligation.The value leading to obligation conversation may well look like this: “They’re the guys who told me about this … It’s obvious they know something...
Read More4 Simple Rules for Creating Effective Twitter Posts
Twitter is, in essence, a headline service and, like every other form of digital communication, it’s all about the power of that headline or subject line to compel you to take action. If it doesn’t compel it won’t get acted upon. In reality Twitter is a continuous news feed where the new’s items are whatever the twitter poster thinks is valuable enough to throw on the feed. If you want to catch your follower’s attention and, in particular, if you want them to click through to something else (or @ or RT) then you need to consider if your post (a.k.a. the...
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