How You Can Still Sell Paid Links
While I don’t sell paid text links on this site, but many people do. If you have a fairly high ranking site it’s a great way to make more money with your site than with Google ads alone. The best way to improve your ranking with the search engines is to have high ranking sites […]
Good Free Tools – Wall Street Journal Small Business Help
The Wall Street Journal has added a great new small business section to their website that’s free to use for anyone. They cover a wide range of topics from financing to advertising and promotion. I just recently found this site and started to explore. I had thought that WSJ was a subscription only site and […]
Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO?
There is a very interesting discussion going on in a post on the search engine land site by Stoney deGeyter called Can Small Businesses Really Afford SEO? I’m thinking that small business can’t afford not use SEO for their sites. It’s the only thing that really levels the playing field with the big boys. Even […]
What Good Are Wikipedia Links?
Wikipedia in an effort to combat posting spam changed all of their links to “nofollow”. What that means is that search engines will no longer apply any page rankings from the Wikipedia site to the linked site. Whether the spiders follow those links or not is not known for sure. Does that mean it’s not […]
Marketing Help For A Small Business
I am always on the lookout for good ideas to market my small business. One of the first thing that I advise my clients is to start a mailing list. When I first started this business all I had was a list of names of people that I had kept in touch with through e-mails. […]
Is A Blog Right For Your Business?
One of the best ways to help a site improve in the search rankings is to add new content on a regular basis. One of the best tools for doing this is to add a blog. A blog adds new content to your site every time that you post. If you are lucky enough to […]
Small Business Promotion Ideas
Michael Gray has put together a great post of thirteen ways that small businesses can promote themselves for free at his Graywolf SEO Blog. While most of his suggestions apply to businesses with a local presence, there are still quite a few on there that will apply to any small business. I have recommended to […]
Help For Small Businesses
When I’m looking for help for my business the first place I usually go is to the Small Business Administration Website. They have so much help for free including, taxes, advertising and many other resources. You could spend days just poking around their site. I have found that you can usually trust the US government’s […]
Five Keys to Networking Success
Networking can be a very valuable tool for any small business. I have written about this before. If it’s done right it can be the single most economical way to get you new and repeat business. Networking and word of mouth advertising together are seven times more likely to bring in business than all forms […]
The VP of Search
Sara Holoubek of Search Engine Watch has written a post about just how far SEO has come in a short time. Major companies are adding VP’s of Search, she says it’s “the hottest new title in town”. Well, if the big players are doing it shouldn’t small companies at least recognize that search is something […]
