Local SEO: Going Beyond the Directories with Link Building

March 4, 2013 By 11 Comments
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Ever since Google rolled out the local results in their search engine result pages (SERPs) everyone has been trying to find out ways to get their businesses site to show up in the local listings since it appears above the natural rankings. Most of this was done by focusing onsite SEO for local keywords and claiming the business on directories like Yelp or Yellow Pages, and this worked great… that is, until Google rolled out 'Local' within Google+. Now ratings and reviews on Google+ get … [Read more...]

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The Importance Of Writing Quality Blog Posts & Email Newsletters

January 25, 2013 By 10 Comments
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I was hoping that this post title was obvious, but when you look around at many blogs these days and see the writing quality of the posts they publish, it is easy to see that many of the blog owners don’t actually know the importance of writing quality blog posts and email newsletters. They offer posts that are so vague that they are as useless as they are short, often 500 words of regurgitated works they have stolen from other websites. They offer nothing new to the reader and what does that … [Read more...]

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Create A Product To Sell Online On Your Own Website

June 22, 2012 By 12 Comments
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Today is the day of the digital age. We are living in a time with untold possibilities at our finger tips and all we do is complain and moan. How crazy is that! The truth is, the general public do not know how to make money or realise what possibilities there are all around us.  That's why I wrote this post looking at ways to create a product and sell it online! Everyone wants more money, let’s be brutally honest about it. OK, that’s not true, maybe the Queen doesn't sit there thinking … [Read more...]

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Your Blog Sucks! – Top 5 Ways To Help Fix Your Blog

January 30, 2012 By 22 Comments
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Let's be honest for a second, “Your Blog Sucks!!” Harsh I know, but it's an important point for you to realise if you intend to make a success of your website. Ask any successful blogger and they will tell you that at sometime or another their own blog sucked! None of us start out with an amazing, absolutely perfect site where we get everything right first time, every time. We all have to learn the hard way and make mistakes along the way. In fact ask any successful entrepreneur or business … [Read more...]

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How to Write Great Blog Post Introductions

October 13, 2011 By 15 Comments
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A good introduction is one of THE most important parts of your blog posts! Writing the perfect introduction to your blog posts is vitally important! Having a great introduction can literally be the difference between your article being read or not. Whenever I (or anyone else for that matter) am reading through a post that I have clicked on, you can judge how good the article is going to be based on the intro. If it's boring or hard to read because of poor spelling & grammar, then in all … [Read more...]

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