Posts Tagged ‘small-business’

2010 Traffic Trend Round-Up: Let’s Take a Look Ahead…

new yearEach week, we’re going to start having a round-up post that explores some of the best-of  information from other sites our team reads. This week,  we’re putting the spotlight on conversations about what to look forward to in 2010.

Many different predictions for the future are made but how many will actually come to fruition? Who knows.

We have had several highs and lows in the current year. It’s time to look forward to next year. (more…)

6 Things that Tell Me That I Can Trust a Search Expert – And Tips on Becoming A More Trustworthy Expert

As promised in my recent lunatic rant about integrity, here’s how I decide to trust a search expert. (And there ARE some search experts I trust, if you missed it.) The ability to pass this scrutiny is what the experts I trust have in common.

I’ve put in several asides, in blue, to help show you how you can apply these tips to your business to Become a trusted expert.

So here’s my criteria. Yours may vary, and please share them here or click the retweet button, then @ me on Twitter and we can continue the conversation there.

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Why You Should Care About The Small Business Success Index : Site of the Day

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I couldn’t let Friday night pass without giving you some of the best news I’ve heard in a while. (I’d say Saturday morning, but I know my entrepreneur friends – you’re up working just like me. You went out, you came home, you worked some more. Admit it.)

If you remember our last Site of the Day, you know that I don’t give these honors out lightly.

So why the Small Business Success Index? What about that site can help you build your business online?

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Is This How You Network On Facebook? | Today’s Traffic Thursdays Topic

Okay, so when we last left our discussion, I was talking about what’s considered spammy at Facebook, and why spam at Facebook will ultimately fail. That leaves us with the question – how do you get people in Facebook to visit your site without spamming them?

How can you increase your exposure at Facebook without seeming like a spammer?

As I’ve said before, if you want to blatantly market on Facebook, you have a several options you can exercise without looking like a spammer.

  1. Get a Facebook Business Page,
  2. Buy a Facebook Ad,
  3. Participate in or Create a Group,
  4. or Leverage Your Profile.

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Traffic Method #2 – Write About Bigger Companies Who Write or Link That You Wrote About Them

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Here’s a quick tip that I’ve used to my advantage many times.

In a nutshell, you go out and find companies that give you publicity in the when you write about them. It works best if you’re writing because you sincerely love them, and if that publicity is either in the form of a link or will be presented before a captive audience.

Here’s how to do it.

1 – Find the top companies that have some kind of parallel relationship to your site. A parallel relationship would be one that is in the same topic neighborhood but not competing.

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Help the Age of Conversation Authors Raise $15K for a Children’s Charity!

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There’s this wonderful project I’m a part of, and all the hard work of the project leaders has come to fruition. A while back, I told you about the childish jealousy that led me to be a part of The Age of Conversation Part Two. In this book, you can read 239 perspectives explaining how to be successful in the Age of Conversation – a goldmine if you’re an entrepreneur or a small business owner.

What I didn’t tell you then is that all the proceeds go to a children’s charity, Variety. So, I know it’s late in the day, but I took a chance that you’d be in a much more giving mood when the day was done. The sale has been on for 12 hours, and it would be wonderful if by midnight Pacific time, we could have $15,000 to hand over to this fabulous charity.

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