Why should a business care about SEO (search engine optimization)? SEO has many business benefits. I gave this presentation to a group of business owners and entrepreneurs, showing them how SEO can grow their businesses. For this webinar, I partnered with Jon LoDuca of The Wisdom Link, an Intellectual Capital Development Firm. Below are the video, […]
Have you ever engaged in a conversation with someone only to realize they talked about themselves the whole time? How did you feel when you walked away? Probably not great. Similarly, your business website should not be a one-sided conversation. It is common for businesses to make their website all about them—how great they are, […]
If you’ve ever subscribed to an email newsletter or purchased a product or service online, it’s likely you’ve interacted with a call to action (CTA). Since this term is frequently used in online marketing, let’s begin with a definition: According to HubSpot, “a call-to-action (usually abbreviated as CTA) is an image or line of text […]
Copy makes or breaks a website. Your website may be the most beautifully designed, well-functioning site on the Web, but without great copy it's nothing special. Today, there are many options for businesses to design their own websites without hiring a professional. This trend has also made it normal for people to write their own […]
Picture this: You are shopping on Amazon for a product and encounter two virtually identical options. How do you decide? If you are like 67 percent of consumers, online reviews would likely impact your final purchasing decision. Similarly, although word-of-mouth is still a powerful form of marketing, 88 percent of consumers trust online reviews as […]
Imagine you have a fancy new website with striking design, spot-on SEO and all the bells and whistles. Now what? Your gut is telling you to leave the site alone … it’s working perfectly, right? Wrong! Not doing anything to your site after it launches is one of the biggest mistakes a website owner can […]
When analyzing your website's goals, it is tempting to use traffic as an indicator of success. If your site has thousands or even hundreds of thousands of visitors each month, it must be successful, right? Wrong. Traffic includes all the visits to your site, many of which will never turn into business. So which metric […]
It’s a new year and many of you may be setting personal goals. Don’t forget about your website! Goals are also critical to the success of your site. Maybe your website isn’t looking to lose weight or carve out more time for a hobby but you may be surprised how it can benefit from some […]
When a business or person begins creating or updating their website, they often focus on its content, design and features. What should the logo look like? Color scheme? How will the site interact with social media? Will it have a blog? What about SEO? All of these things are important but there is one critical […]
Learn how to control how your WordPress posts look on social media, with Open Graph settings in Yoast SEO plugin.
When we talk to clients about SEO, they quickly ask, "Where will we rank?" and "How soon will we rank there?" and "What guarantee can you give me?" I've found that analogies work well in explaining technical topics to non-technical clients, so I decided to start comparing SEO to the stock market, and the SEO specialist to an investment advisor. SEO […]
We're all swimming in email, so we owe it to our fellow emailers to be the least annoying we can. Here are several annoying email practices to stop, to improve your email etiquette. Writing a bad subject line The worst subject line is no subject line. Take a few seconds to write a meaningful one. Summarize the message, so […]
