28 May 2010 ~ 22 Comments

The Small Business Blogger

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A domain is an important first step to a small business communications campaign that will make public hours of availability, types of available operations, product and services quality, and pricing. But the domain can only accrue in value if the material attached to the domain url online brings a viewer or visitor experience users enjoy. The small business blogger can build domain value while attending to business marketing responsibilities.

Choose a good domain name for your blog. This will be on the business card, the FaceBook page, and on your email address. The numbers behind the main directory file folder tag aren’t really going to work here. The small business domain name will serve to promote and brand the business while becoming a domaining “verb” your clients and customers can use.  You can do business your own way. Just let browsers get a handle on it.

Start your blog entries modest. Get in the hang of submitting about 250 words a day about your developing business, wishes for the future, plans to specialize, or customer focus ideas. Slowly expand these entries with product definitions, business projections, industry statements, and opinions. Utilize added keywords or complementary keywords and phrases that augment domain value through SEO techniques.

Blogging about starting the business, getting the facility together, and/or just siting the new business make viable commencement blog entries. Using photos and video clips can demonstrate your communication style and accessibility to wandering shoppers. Usually the visitor’s eye falls on the index page column and main headline. Arrange website features  that define the domain small business concept with graphics and related content,

Make sure your theme takes a back seat to the content and does not present contrasting elements. A zen garden or sporty racetrack may seem cool when shopping for blog templates, but it will make a hash of a landing page presentation with your articles about crafting custom seat covers. By occasionally substituting seasonal colors in the style sheet, the website can appear fresh without detracting from the blog.

Going shopping for a used domain name can be fun and very affordable. many good ideas that other people have had can become your good idea anew. And used domain named have one time traffic links and indicators somewhere out there on the web that may bring new visitors to your site. Making new visitors part of the conversation expands the reach of your blog outward. This rewrites the possibilities when it comes to referral traffic.

Keywords that correspond to your business, industry or materials keep the topicality relevant. Don’t try to brand your business with a hobby domain name subfolder. Pay attention to how urls will look in the address bar and scan. People will want to type the new name in and check your site out. Nobody is buying custom made blinds from warcraftblob/work/9723/home.doc. But http://www.funwindows/index.asp is a winner.

But having a website that is a blog isn’t always as simple as some new domainers or bloggers think it is. The core effort each day should be contributing fresh material to the blog and adding timed future publications to mature as scheduled. The three ring circus feeling begins when link building, seo optimization, and ads and site composition start to compete for the webmaster’s time.

If a web researcher finds your blog through a search engine result, they may check the home page to see what’s going on currently. Make sure something is there, nothing says “go away” as much as an abandoned blog. Alt tags and text density make the site visitors relevant.  A reader can bookmark a page for later review for how-to advice, installation lessons, product model technical reviews, and more. Giving the reader something to do is key.

The small business blogger can work their information management into the blog.  Explaining why certain products come the way they do or reporting changes in the business model can showcase the situation later for their records. The small business owner can use their personal brand of web citizen journalism to make their case why their product or service should be the one shopper choose.

Collecting queries can show the business manager what information needs to be on their site. Signups for special offers and coupons can demonstrate price sensitivity for certain services. Limited time changes can be Twittered for custom convenience. And trolling the geo stats to see where the demand is coming from can steer a new domain owner to a more productive clicks and mortar small business marketing campaign every time.

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24 April 2010 ~ 12 Comments

AC & Your Domain Link-In Strategies

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I was surprised to read the Writer’s Digest list of the Best 101 websites for writers and not see my very favorite and most profitable writing site there.This is Associated Content. There is no better training tool for online content writing on the Internet, and AC pays real cash money for writing and performance payments. Paid training for learning how to write efficiently and in an optimized, SEO friendly way for websites.

AssociatedContent.com is an income producer, a revenue channel for websites, a link directory in sum and an article directory someone else pays to host and promote. Yet, in the Writer’s Digest compendium of top sites for writers, this site is not mentioned. This is a gross oversight. A website oversite, if you will. AC is the best tool online for a writing career, without education qualification or gender or race entitlement.

Google and other search engines make the rankings from some formula based on links coming into your site. The links from articles at Associated Content do the same job. But AC studs its pages with SEO spiking features that cry out to the SEO powers that be. How can any webmaster not want their links to be featured in articles there? It’s like a domainer’s dream.

Associated Content articles and text is actively shoved in front of as many traffic building tools and campaigns as humanly possible. Write it once, submit with tags, and the site revolves and churns the content ad infinitum. Associated Content wants to own the search engine result market. AC constantly game changes its site plan and site architecture to keep text and media content depth fresh.

AC can actually pay people in a business plan strategy to buy domains, build ideas, host websites, and promote their domain url sites cost free. How is this resource not listed in an article of 100/101 best websites in Writer’s Digest? The most important feature on any site is its content. And AC teaches with tutorials and trial and error submission how to succeed in writing for the online writer’s market.

AC pays for text. They pay for video. They pay for images.  They pay  for audio. AC buys How-To articles and personal stuff. But AC articles pay one time payments and partial payments over time. That’s money that can pay your hosting fees and advertising costs, as well as other costs. That’s cash that can cover your hosting and domain and privacy and traffic burst fees.

Question:  When was the last time you evaluated what links are coming into your site? Their PR and search ranking and SEO profile shades your every search result. Marketing a website at AC practically pays for itself, while establishing an online basis for content work. Very few resources online offer this kind of qualitative and quantitative benefit.

How much of your time spent on promoting and marketing the website involves creating new incoming links? Imagine saving the work and passing it off to someone else, while earning money. And why garden for new content browsers when you can submit your content directly to a site with millions of daily readers? AC is made of links. Smart webmasters use AC, and ignore it at their competitive business peril.

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