Google PageRank Checker – Check Google Page Rank of any Web Page

Google PageRank is a factor that many consider important to search engine optimization and how your site ranks in Google search results.  Here’s a site that lets you quickly check: Google PageRank Checker – Check Google page rank of any web pages. How to increase your PageRank?  Well, that’s one of the great mysteries.  Here’s [...]

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4 ways to use Google Reader to track your industry, engage your market and monitor your brand

As many know, Google Reader is one of my favorite tools to help establish yourself as a market leader online.  In this audio post I discuss the 4 ways Google Reader can help you track your industry, engage your market and monitor your brand. Listen or Download Four advantages of Google Reader Ability to track [...]

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Mobile Phones Will Serve as the Online Content Consumption Platform of Choice by 2013

More evidence today from Gartner that mobile phones will serve as the online content consumption platform of choice by 2013.  Is your company preparing for the shift?  It’s happening now, so get on-board. By 2013, mobile phones could easily surpass PCs as the way most people hop onto the Web. Gartner’s statistics show that the [...]

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Facebook is More Like Google and Why Your Business Needs a FaceBook Page

In December, Facebook traffic reached 132 million unique visitors and continues to grow.  Surprisingly, most small businesses claim “our customers don’t use Facebook!”  Oh really? Traditionally, we’ve compared Facebook to Twitter and MySpace, but with its mammoth size, Facebook looks more like Google … … any comparison between Facebook and Twitter is meaningless and Facebook [...]

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Setting SMART Goals for your 2010 Internet Marketing Strategy

Listen or Download: Setting SMART Goals Setting SMART goals is a proven approach to achieving success more quickly.  As 2009 winds down, this is the perfect opportunity to examine your goals for 2010 and apply the SMART mnemonic or acronym to increase the likelihood your goals are met. SMART stands for: S – Specific M [...]

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Posting videos in your blog just got easy with WordPress version 2.9

For those of you familiar with WordPress, adding a video to a post has traditionally required one if not many plugins. With WordPress 2.9, you just simply drop in the url and publish.  WordPress does the rest! Here’s a quick video showing you how to embed video in WordPress 2.9: The following picture says it [...]

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Leveraging events to drive SEO traffic to your blog (Audio)

Listen or Download Upcoming events are a great opportunity for you to leverage keywords related to that event and drive SEO traffic to your blog. If you can, research an event within your niche and identify 2-3 long-tail keyword phrases that a potential reader might use to search for information on Google.  Write a few [...]

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Why Would I Want My Business on Facebook? Facebook Ads

Facebook also has two unique sections that are of particular interest to businesses and organizations. One is Facebook Ads, a Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising network that serves ads to users based on their biographical listing information. The second is Facebook Pages, a place for users to create a separate profile page for their business, organization or [...]

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9 Ways to Find New Content Ideas for Your Blog, Podcast or Videos

Searching for new content ideas for your blog, podcast or videos?  I just listened to a great podcast from Jason Van Orden and here are my notes and personal comments. First, set up a capture system to catch ideas when they happen. MindMap – I use http://bubbl.us/ which is a great free online tool for [...]

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Deep Links for Search Engine Optimization

It’s still shocking that many newbies don’t understand links. You don’t need to link to a lot of Web sites. You need a lot of good Web sites to link to you. And, it’s best if you can manage to get some of those links to include — in some fashion — the keywords that [...]

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