This week we are sharing a unique tactic for increasing blog traffic to your website: optimizing the older blog content on your website. The following information is excerpted from a recent article by Pamela Vaughan, published on HubSpot Blogs. Click here to read the full article. * * * The Blogging Tactic No One Is Talking About: Optimizing the
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Cyberbullying: Protect Yourself, Your Family and Your Business
What You Should Know About Cyberbullying Online, safety is key. You browse the internet with anti-virus programs, avoid suspicious email attachments and guard your personal information. But a quick click away or a program can’t protect you from the greatest online threat: cyberbullying. But what should you do when you encounter it? Here are a few
4 Simple Steps to Creating Landing Pages that Convert
It is easy to get dazzled by latest marketing tools and techniques. You stay current on all the latest innovations from the marketing world and attempt to implement everything you’ve learned on your landing pages at once. This is a huge mistake. Using new techniques is good, but you shouldn’t blindly follow every new trend that surfaces. A recent
10 Simple SEO Mistakes to Avoid
by Jeremy Taylor, Constant Contact You have a website and you want people to see it. The trouble is, you have an awful lot of competition. If the world wide web is a beach, the websites on it are grains of sand. So how do you make sure your grain is the one your target audience finds? Avoiding these ten SEO mistakes is a great start… 1. Focusing
12 Changes That Will Impact Your SEO Strategy
Written by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), published on HubSpot Blogs SEO is a moving target that can really affect your business. This means that as a startup founder, you need to be prepared to make your strategy work no matter what Google enforces. We asked 12 entrepreneurs what trends they have noticed in the past year and how they have
Is Your Blog Getting Lonely? Eight Tips To Rekindle The Love!
by Susan Solovic for Constant Contact Are you and your blog having relationship problems? I’ve seen it so many times. Here are the common troubles I’ve witnessed: You know you should have a blog, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet, You started a blog, but have lost your motivation and are letting it slip, and You want to love your blog, but
6 Simple and Inexpensive Ways to Use Online Marketing to Reach New Customers
by Ali Hyatt, Constant Contact As a small business, online marketing often provides the most cost-effective methods for attracting new customers. But any form of marketing — whether it’s online, print, television, or direct mail — usually costs something and it can be hard to find the resources needed to spread the word about your
Understanding The SEO Journey – Old vs New SEO
As an online marketing agency, SEO is a common topic of discussion around the BizzyWeb office. This recent blog post published on Webbiquity.com by guest author Jack Dawson is an informative and easy-to-understand explanation of old versus new SEO. * * * by Jack Dawson Everyone implementing SEO usually has the same question – how long before I rank
SEO Strategies to Boost Your Business
With continuous updates to mysterious and complicated algorithms, SEO has changed significantly over the years. It's no longer enough to load up a page with a bunch of keywords and wait for your page rank to climb. That just doesn't work anymore. Check out this handy infographic created by digital marketing guru Neil Patel for a quick breakdown of
A Simple Social Media Strategy: Attract, Engage, Convert & Monitor
The growth of social media marketing over the past few years has been astounding; the latest estimates show that in five short years, social media use by businesses has grown from 10% to 84%! Using social media to promote your business, products and services has proven itself an effective marketing tactic, but where to start? For best results on
4 Simple Steps to Improve Your Social Media Advertising
In today's online world, social media advertising is an important component of any strategic marketing plan. You carefully research your keywords, messages and target audience, but are you using a scientific approach to ad design? According to a recent Social Media Examiner article, your senses are bombarded by more than two billion bits of data
3 Social Media Online Tools Use Can Use To Educate Your Prospects
Are you wondering what the best strategy is to be seen as an expert in your field? The days of the pushy used car salesmen are over. Many small business owners have had a lot of success in educating their clients to prove their expertise. This blog covers 3 online tools you can use to consistently educate your clients and
Blogging for Business – Learn How on 7/23!
Bummer. You missed this week's live broadcast. Fortunately, you can still watch the archive video above. Join us next week live on the webinar, or in person at our headquarters for the next BizzyWebinar workshop! Blogging is one of the most important things you can do to raise your website's rankings and increase traffic. Both of which will result
Tips For Creating Your Facebook Marketing Plan
Does it seem like there is no rhyme or reason to what people “like”, engage in, and click on in Facebook? Online marketing should be executed just like any marketing plan, in a well-thought out and strategic way. So, in an effort to help you use your time as efficiently as possible, we wanted to share some information we got from an Info-graphic
Image Copyright: How To Avoid Infringement
When creating content on the web, one question we come across often is image copyright. With it being so easy to right click and save any old image found on the Internet, it may seem appropriate to use it for your purposes. This post is all about using copyrighted images for your own use and what to watch out for so you don’t run into trouble
Social Media: The Danger Of Allowing Your Platforms To Become A Ghost Town
Do you ever have an exceptional customer service experience at a company and later seek them out via social media to connect with them? You’d like to share your experience on their page, but when you find it, there are two likes and there hasn’t been a post for over a year. After reading this blog, you’ll understand the dangers of allowing your
5 Reasons Why You Should Upgrade To WordPress 3.6 Oscar
Are you wondering about how to increase traffic to your website? To get people visiting, coming back, and spending more time on your site, these days it’s all about media content. WordPress has made it easier than ever to produce media-rich blogs by making their newest version WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” available to the world to download. In this
Buzz Builders Webinar for 3/13/13 – Blogging Basics
If you’re going to write your own blog or even write your own website content, there’s more to it than copying text from in your hard-copy brochure. There are right and wrong ways to quote other websites, linking standards, and rules for grammar on the web. And you need to write so your content gets found on the web and is useful to your readers.
Buzz Builders Webinar for 12/12/12: Writing Content for Websites
Have a question? Leave it below by scrolling to the bottom and posting under "Speak Your Mind" - or Tweet to #BuzzBuilders, or send an email to sales@bizzyweb.com! Writing content for the web is different than writing for print. If you're going to write your own blog or website content, there's more to it than copying text that's written in your
FREE Buzz Builders Webinar for 8/15: Social Media Strategy
This week's FREE Buzz Builders Webinar will be focused on setting up a social media strategy. We will cover how to create an effective plan to create more business for your company and more customer/client interaction. Having a strategy is important for the success of your campaigns. Note: This Event will be held via Google Plus Hangout. Please
FREE Buzz Builders Webinar for Wednesday, Jun. 20: WordPress 3.4
WordPress version 3.4, codenamed "Green," was just released and has some significant upgrades for users and developers. This week on our FREE Buzz Builders webinar (noon on Wednesday) we will cover the major updates, which include theme customization, custom headers, Twitter embeds, and HTML image captions, and more. Join us and get to know the ins
FREE Buzz Builders Webinar for Wednesday, May 16: Social Media Strategy
“He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” In a world full of social media channels it is so important to make sure you know what exactly you want to accomplish within social media. Setting a social media strategy is key if you want any difference in your business. This week’s FREE Buzz Builders we will talk about how to set up a social media strategy
Project the Right Image with a Professional Website and Social Media
The following is reprinted from the April 2012 issue of New Business Minnesota. For a full copy of the articles, download this PDF or click the image to the right. Use These Simple Tips to Get the Customers You Want. Projecting the right image to your customers is one of the best ways to gain their trust and business. If you use the right tools,
Social Media Event with ActionCoach on Monday, Apr. 9
Want to learn more about how to build a social media plan to generate buzz about your business? ActionCOACH MetroNorth invites you to ActionCLUB: Social Media The event will be held on Monday, Apr. 9 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Ramsey, MN. View the map for directions. Dave Meyer will speak about how tools like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook can
Special Seminar: Building a Social Media Plan at NHAC on Tuesday, Jan. 24
Want to learn more about how to build a social media plan to generate buzz about your business? Dave Meyer will be speaking about social media planning and best practices in a talk hosted by North Hennepin Area Chamber of Commerce. The luncheon will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 24 at the NHACC Office from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Registration
Register NOW for “Target Marketing” talk Thursday!
TOMORROW -- on Thursday, September 22 from 3 to 5 p.m. -- BizzyWeb's Dave Meyer will be giving a talk on "Fishing for Sales With Online Marketing" at the Startup Meetup for New Business Minnesota. We hope you can attend! As of this writing, 141 people are already registered. We'd love to see you there. Register now! This free workshop - Sept. 22
Fishing for Sales with Online Marketing
The following is reprinted from the August 2011 issue of New Business Minesota. For a full copy of the articles, download this PDF or click the image to the right. Your Tackle Box Should Have the Right Lures to Catch What You’re Looking For. Finding customers can feel a lot like fishing: Sometimes the fish are biting and sales are coming in as fast
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Beginners: Part 2
Continued from Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Beginners: Part 1 In part one we were introduced to Eclectic Martial Arts and their challenges to being found on the first page of Google's search results. There are over 71 million web pages flagged as "Martial Arts." It doesn't do any good if someone searches for "martial arts" on the other side
5 Things You Need to Know to Generate Buzz Online
The following is reprinted from the March 2011 issue of New Business Minesota. For a full copy of the articles, download this PDF or click the image to the right. Social media has changed the way people interact with businesses on the web. A simple website with text from your brochure (that hasn’t been updated for months) is no longer enough. To
WordPress 3.1 Goes Live
WordPress 3.1, code named "Reinhardt" (in honor of guitarist, Django Reinhardt), was rolled out Wednesday and includes some handy improvements for users. Easier linking, a new site-wide admin bar for logged in admins and editors, and custom post formats are now available. BizzyWeb will be updating qualifying sites as soon as we've verified plugin
Use Web Design and Social Media to Look like Goliath on David’s Budget
How a few well-aimed rocks can put you on a level field with the big guys The following is reprinted from the February 2011 issue of New Business Minesota. Dave Meyer, BizzyWeb president, will be offering a live presentation in association with this article in early April Before you spend a lot of time making yourself look big, make sure you’re
Do businesses need to blog?
Join me at 7:30 a.m. this Thursday at the North Hennepin Area Chamber of Commerce's Business Connections series (at Edinburgh USA) to talk about the business of blogging. The topic of the talk is "Does my company need to blog?" and we'll discuss: The business case for blogging, or publishing a regularly updated set of articles, news or
Social Media: Speak our Language, Please | Small Business Trends
Here's a shocker: Social media is on everyone's minds nowadays. My clients are looking for more, better (and cheaper) ways to reach out to their customers and prospects, but the flurry of tools available and the learning curve behind each leaves them bewildered. A dear friend dropped this article by Zane Safrit into my Facebook account yesterday
MIMA Blog Carnival: Q & A
A link to the MIMA "Blog Carnival" was forwarded to me by a friend of mine, and there are some really interesting questions being posed there (link in image below). Here's my take on one of the issues raised in the Carnival Q&A: 2) Will Facebook, MySpace, and SMS marginalize the role of email in communication between friends, family, and
5 Common Headline Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
Five Common Headline Mistakes and How to Avoid Them | Copyblogger five common mistakes that people make when writing headlines, which also serve as checklist items for you to take into account when crafting your own. Good stuff to think about when writing headlines, and a few I'd not thought about. Listing is a great idea, e.g., "Five common