Melanie Prough | April 29, 2009
First of all lets just start with this….yes blogging is a HIGHLY successful means with which to promote a website, however is is also HARD work. In today’s post I’m going to give you a guide to the basic principals and commitments needed for successful blogging adventures.
Melanie Prough | April 28, 2009
One of the most important things you can do for the future of your business’ website is improve your tackle the learning curve now and tackle your credibility issues. If you need any other motivation, then I’ll tell you this….websites meeting a moderate level of credibility will have on average 17% more conversions.
Melanie Prough | April 24, 2009
A long time ago in a land far, far away you could send an advertisement or newsletter to anyone you wanted. Companies and Webmasters alike with the desire to reap the benefits of an email marketing campaign abused that ability and created the need for consumers to be protected from us.
Melanie Prough | April 23, 2009
When I first started doing my own SEO a great deal of my reading time was spent in Wikipedia chasing down the meaning to the SEO terms and acronyms. I was cleaning the other day and happened across my old “cheat sheet” of these terms and such. I have added some, updated some others, and today I will give you your own little secret decoder guide to SEO terms.
Melanie Prough | April 22, 2009
Today we are going to cover some things you should try to accomplish with your Blog to help it’s indexing and subsequent rank with the use of SEO. Many Blogs reside on a very large host’s servers, like BlogSpot or WordPress.
Melanie Prough | April 20, 2009
I suggest you treat the research, discovery and implementation of long tails like any other keyword. The only real added concern is “search-ability” or “natural language” of the long tail.
Melanie Prough | April 20, 2009
So to recap….Be descriptive, relevant, and watch things like thought flow, and sentence structure. Please check your spelling, if you do nothing else.
Melanie Prough | April 20, 2009
The most important thing you can do for your websites success, is to become a “Sales Scholar”. Lets face it, you have to know how to market effectively or your search results rank hardly matters.
Melanie Prough | April 20, 2009
So when you get ready to do your next round of directory submissions, take heed and don’t waste you time with ineffective and malformed submissions. It is truly webmasters skill of importance.
Melanie Prough | April 17, 2009
I have been studying the click probabilities on search pages and the behavior of the end user for some time. I watch for studies and information using my Google Alerts. So am using a compiled version of the information from 3 studies on the subject, so that now I feel have enough quality information to generate this post.
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