Is Your Site Not Ranking? Did it Make Panda Sick? 
Your website isn’t some old rotten medicine a decade or more old, is it? Come on now! Would expired (probably poisonous) medicine heal you or make you sick?
Millions of website designers and SEO’s like us are making an effort to update and fix old websites to attract visitors and encourage them to come back and visit a healthy, friendly website–that won’t make Panda sick!
According to Search Engine Watch, if you think your site HAS made Panda sick (i.e., your ranking has suddenly dropped or you believe it might have been removed from Google’s index), check for the following: Continue reading
Social Media for My Business? Why??
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| “Half of SMBs surveyed by business process outsourcing firm Affinity Express in June 2011 had used social media marketing and 83% of the small businesses, including many sole proprietorships, polled in May 2011 by small-business solutions provider Deluxe Corporation planned to do so this year. Nearly two-thirds of local business owners polled in June by niche social network MerchantCircle said they used Facebook alone to promote their business.” EMarkete |
I know what you’re thinking… “Social Media can’t be THAT important.”
Au contraire, mon ami! Social Media Marketing can actually expand and help your business gain clientele and customers!
First off – Social Media, now developed into a marketing technique, allows businesses and people to get messages out or communicate with their online consumers and clients. In fact, did you know more than half American adults with Internet access use Social Media?
Calling All “Uber” Multitaskers!
LaPraya McCoy, a reporter with the Daily Press, one of the large newspapers serving Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA, has contacted us for help with an article she is writing. Here is the email she sent us:
“Hi, I hope all is well. I am currently working on a story about why people multitask and what experts say about multitasking. Do you have any friends who say will have Facebook up, check e-mails, talk on the phone and watch TV all at once? Do you know anyone who you consider a heavy “multitasker,” if so, please let me know asap. E-mail laprayam@yahoo.com with the contact info (phone number, e-mail address, etc.)…. Thanks!”
How about it–any “uber” mutlitaskers out there?
DIY Website Optimization Step 6 – Blogs and Social Media
Blog, become a “social butterfly”, convert visitors to leads and improve your search engine ranking.
Google LOVES blogs, because their content is always changing. A blog can really push your website higher in the rankings, but only if it’s part of your website, like ours is, as opposed to using a third party like Wordpress.com to host it.
Smellycat Blogging Workshop in the News!
In case you might have missed it, the Daily Press ran a great article on our blogging workshops in their 8/29 Sunday edition that included a few nice shout-outs for some of our clients!
Business Blogging for Beginners Workshop
Bring a laptop to this hands-on workshop and create a FREE Wordpress blog for yourself, as well as learn what a blog is and why you should blog, how the Wordpress CMS (Content Management System) works, how to create posts and add static images and links, and how to moderate comments.
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