Strategies in Content Creation
I created a Sitemap for The Murray Group and submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools. Your Blog’s sitemap is the Index for Google Search. This file gives Google a path to follow when the little Google Robots are searching your site and adding your content to Google’s directory. Your giving Google the Road Map to your website.
Pinterest is a visual social network. What the hell does that mean? When I say visual, I mean everything is based on pictures and short explanations of those pictures. It’s a place to store your favorite images on the Internet and share them with your friends.
Last week in what was just an honest moment of recognition… Recognition that I had found a newsletter product that I really enjoyed using and could see being a serious asset to my online business… I sent out a tweet
I’m all for Capitalism. I know that businesses has to make money. But there is a way of doing business that has been lost in the Large Corporate world. Some might call it a loss of humanity, others will call it greed, I just think it’s a lack of vision.
The increase in traffic I get from the Firepole Marketing blog contest will be great but ultimately fleeting… The value I will take from this experience are the relationships I’ve formed. The resources I now have at my disposal to bounce ideas and questions off of.
In order to build an search engine optimized small business blog you need consistency and patience. The Murray Group’s SEO campaign came out of the gate guns blazing (see the result from my week 1 post below). There have been significantly less fireworks the last two weeks as far as new leads.
New technology makes you uncomfortable. First, talking through a computer is just weird. Second, you have to know how to type or it takes a ridiculous amount of time. Third, everything you say lasts forever in cyber-space whatever the hell that is…
So what the Internet has revolutionized the way small business communicates with their customers. You have an excuse… Actually you now have 33 excuses why you don’t blog about your business.
We’ve finished week #2 of my small business SEO experiment and I’ve learned two things this week that I want to share with you right off the bat. Posting valuable content every day is hard. Posting valuable content every day drives traffic to your website.
Small town businesses throughout the US are beginning to consider online marketing as a legitimate tool for building a larger customer base.
