Which Common Grammar Errors are you Making?
There is nothing worse than putting a blog out there and realizing that you are deterring your audience due to unprofessional grammar errors. You want to put an important message out there or attract an audience to your business and you had no idea your blog is looking sloppy and full of mistakes. Mistakes are bound to happen as we are all human, but it’s noted by audiences when a blogger hardly ever contains them. It says something about the attention to detail when a blogger takes the time to edit, proofread and use punctuation or grammar techniques that you …
How can you Easily Spread your Content Online?
The goal of sharing content online is to share it with the world and get the message out there. Once you’ve written a stellar article or made an amazing video or infographic, how do you now spread it for all to see? Your content is a great for businesses that want to get their brand noticed, increase their target audience and convert website visitors into leads but creating the interesting content is the easy part. The hard part is getting noticed and having people want to come back for more. Business owners that share content online need to find ways …
Have You Replaced Old SEO Strategies with New Ones Yet?
If you’re used to your familiar SEO strategies, have you considered they may now be outdated? It may be time to update your SEO strategies with new ones even if it sounds difficult. Marketers and SEO teams are always adapting the way they work to keep up with the effective outcomes found by algorithms like Panda, Penguin and Pigeon. Trying to use outdated practices for your marketing efforts is a waste of time when you see that your link building was ineffective or your press release is out in the world hurting your reputation. Update your SEO strategies to stay …
Where can you Find Great Free Images for Your Blog?
When you’re creating a blog, you want to make it more enjoyable to look at by providing more than just your words. Adding images or videos is a great way to give your blog some visual stimulation and paint the picture behind the message a little clearer. When deciding to add images to your blog, it can be challenging to know where to find pictures that will work with the message and also won’t affect the reader’s ability to load the page. It’s a great idea to lessen the focus on your words and opinions and add a little more …
Is a Social Media Provider or Website a Better Choice?
Are you trying to determine between running a company website and simply doing everything through social media? It can be a little overwhelming to try to use every online outlet to make your presence known but there are benefits to every route. There are many social media platforms you can use but not everybody uses Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Facebook while some people are all about social media and aren’t likely to check out your website. What is going to be most effective for your business’s goals is what you need to do but that requires weighing the options between …
Why is Your Website Turning Your Potential Customers Off?
Have you wondered if something about your website was turning off prospective clients? What is it that intrigues someone to view your website but then to never contact you to do business? Having a website is really important to running your business so it’s of total and utter importance that your website is running at optimal quality. A slow loading page with bad photos that can’t be viewed on a mobile device is an example of companies that don’t get contacted for business by potential customers. With the constant evolving of the internet, it’s important to have a site that …
Does Content Marketing Really Trump Link Building?
Are you more focused on your link building or your content marketing? You should be focusing on content marketing as it trumps link building. SEO specialists and digital marketers have looked at both to determine what is really more important for a business owner. While many are split on the issue because on one hand, traditional SEO approach that uses keyword-marketing and link building has been proven, others feel that content marketing along with the many tasks involved is the way to go. It looks like it’s time to move forward with the trend of the future which is to …
Can you Still Monetize your Website with Ad Blockers Present?
You may believe that the only way to monetize your website is to have ads. What happens when your customers have ad blockers present and can’t see the ads that are supposed to be making you a profit? You can still make money when ad blockers are present even if they’ve done some damage to your income. Ad blocking has cost publishers almost $22 billion just this year but publishers are starting to actually pay popular ad blockers to unblock the ads. Unless you’re as big as Google or Amazon, you probably can’t afford to go this route but there …
Can you Really Blog Effectively with just a Few Hours each Week?
If you had a few hours dedicated each week to a task, do you think it would be successful? The answer is probably yes. Most of us don’t have a few hours a week to dedicate to one specific area of our business or our lives, other than sleeping at night. When work brings an unpredictable schedule of meetings, sales, blogging, bookkeeping and scheduling appointments, there aren’t many hours available to do any consistent tasks each week. It turns out that if you can find a few hours each week to dedicate to blogging though, you’ll have an effective blog …
Breaking out of a Creative Rut
Are you finding yourself in a creative rut these days? You may feel you’ve written everything you’ve got on your blog and there simply isn’t anything new to say right now. Being in a creative field like blogging, painting or art, it’s really common to find yourself with new to offer the world at times. Most professionals are artists in one way or another that sometimes can’t find their passion. Finding your passion and living it still requires a lifetime of work to keep it going. No matter how much you are struggling to get out of a creative rut, …
