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Google Wonder Wheel is a handy tool that works as an alternative view of search results. It shows you related keyword phrases to whatever search phrase you searched for. Each of the suggested phrases is clickable, and that’s where the Wonder Wheel gets fun. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can easily find [...]
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Visit Google and type “Web Design near Washington , DC” into the search box.
Are you there?
If that’s not your business, that’s ok. Enter something you’d expect someone to be looking for near your town and see what you get.
Here’s another example:
So much for the Yellow Pages, eh?
Six months ago, the examples above would have produced [...]
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The video below steps you through the process used by any individual business or person to build up a trusted “authority” presence online. At the center of this entire model is content.
Quality content.
It doesn’t matter if you’re creating articles, Squidoo lenses, videos or podcasts, your viewers want to be entertained, enlightened, educated and engaged.
How [...]
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This is just an example of what is possible when you start to merge the concepts of Web 1.0 SEO and Web 2.0 user generated content.
In the old days, it was all about managing every last word on your own website to “optimize” your site for the search engines. The problem with this is that [...]
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No matter what your marketing strategy is for developing your online presence, knowing what people are looking for gives you valuable insight into what you should be talking about. Using free tools, you can find the top, most searched keywords and then write content to match with it.
How to find keywords is easier than [...]
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What does your to do list look like?
Many people carry around to do lists that contain broad goals and vision statements. These items are not specifically actionable and lead to a to do list that feels more like a lead weight than a simple map for the day’s activities.
While tracking such goals are an [...]
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Are you suffering from the effects of continuous partial attention?
While reading an article from 4 Hour Workweek author Tim Ferris, I was struck by how pervasive multitasking has become in our culture and how much damage it is most likely doing to our personal productivity if not our sanity.
Given my background in [...]
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With social media being distributed as it is, being able to share your blog content through multiple services is an imperative. Sharing, or syndicating, your blog through Friendfeed, Facebook, Yahoo Pipes and others requires you to provide your RSS feed address.
Do you know what your RSS feed address is?
It turns out that WordPress made finding [...]
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I’ve been asked how to find the RSS feed for Blogger a few times now. It’s a handy thing to know because with the RSS feed address, you can link Facebook notes and Blogger content which allows you to connect your content to a larger audience. Finding the RSS feed address in Blogger is a [...]
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Connecting Twitter with Facebook is one of the best mashups available for Social Media. You get the easy a quick action of Twitter combined with the sticky content that leads to more interactions and connections you get with Facebook.
Following the instructions in this video (darn easy), you activate a Facebook application which accesses Twitter and [...]
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