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Why Blogs Help Business

4 April 2009 — People everywhere are blogging, and they are becoming an extremely affordable tool for marketing your business. A blog can be monetized with advertisements, but there are also a number of other ways that income can be increased with a blog, create more opportunities, and build up interest in your company. The following are a list of reasons why you should consider blogging for your business: Blogs can increase traffic to your business site. We all… Continue

How to Leverage Search Engines for Marketing

24 March 2009 — It has been discovered that as much as 80% of all web interactions begin with a search engine (www.pewinternet.org). On the search engine page, there are what are called "organic results", or those results that show up naturally, and "sponsored results", or those results that people pay to have placed at the very top or in the sidebar. Organic results show up where they do based on a complex algorithm that is unique to each… Continue

Slow Websites Cost Money

10 March 2009 — According to recent research, a website that loads slowly will not only annoy visitors, but cause rankings in Google to fall. Because many visitors will find a website based on Google search results, this loss of traffic will cost website owners money. The research has shown that a page that loads a half second slower than another can experience a drop in traffic by 20%. This effect also occurs in Google AdWords, where keywords are… Continue

Introduction to Web Analytics

26 February 2009 — There is a plethora of analytics software that is able to be installed on your website, providing valuable data to help you analyze your web audience. One of the most popular is Google Analytics, and it offers a slew of valuable data. What follows is a brief explanation of the various types of data that you can receive through this great tool: Page Views: This is a raw number that is increased every time a… Continue

5 Steps to Search Engine Optimization

28 January 2009 — Introduction The primary method of Internet users to find websites is through the use of search engines. That is why a website that ranks highly in a search engine's results will see a dramatic increase in traffic. Just about every website owner wants to receive such good placement, but many times they don't receive it because they don't understand how search engines work. In particular, submitting your site to search engines is only the beginning… Continue

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