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Start With a Business Blog as Your Website

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Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Anchor blog in your domain name.

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Many Websites Look Like Zombies to Google Search

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Yet recent research indicates that almost half of small business websites are still missing these basics, and thus are essentially dead to the search world. The solution is keeping your site alive and vital, and following basic search engine optimization (SEO) suggestions. Create inbound and outbound links.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

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Then create a mock presentation based on sharing insights for that solution. Over 50,000 journalists use HARO to find experts to interview for TV, newspapers, books, magazines and blogs. Blogs and Forums. Spend time in Blogs and Forums to get to know your potential customer. Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Learn Strategies for Tapping into Foreign Markets

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Cultural sensitivities could have an influence on the material you publish on your website, or the way it is presented. This will allow more effective search engine optimization within foreign markets. A translator will be able to alert you about any potential cultural issues with your web content. domain name (e.g.

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Get Your Website Out of the Internet Dead Zone

Startup Professionals Musings

Search engines like Google depend on website HTML tags, inbound and outbound links, and relevant content to do its ranking and matchmaking, and hopefully get your company found and near the top of customer search requests. The solution is basic search engine optimization (SEO). Initiate a business blog.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

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Just hand over the link to your page and, in some cases, a title and you’re presented with a simple form to complete and submit. Javascript calls are an easy way for Facebook and StumbleUpon to put their links on your page but most networks also have a way to share through a URL.

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