We love Pinterest! It’s a relatively new social media application that is really visual and because of that has a lot of impact for some of our clients.
Most users are just creating boards showing their interests and following others they like but if you think about how other social media tools evolved in terms of business use this is a great one for (read more)
Social Media Training Videos for owners and managers of small to medium sized businesses. Short videos to download into your account when you’re ready to learn each social media application covering Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+,Blogging for business,pay per click,SEO,Pinterest and strategy. No more workshops! Easy social media training in your own time. (read more)
A lot of clients who come to us for website SEO are disappointed with their web designers and tell us that they were offered a fully functioning website with SEO but the site ‘doesn’t work’.
This seems to be a huge miscommunication between website designers and clients.
To shed some light on this it’s important to understand (read more)
Increasing SEO with Google+
There have been a lot of recent write ups about the search engine optimisation power of Google+ and what’s becoming apparent is that having a Google+ profile and business page does help SEO.
Social Media Experts are all recommending that you grow your Google+ following as quickly as possible to reap the benefits of the additional SEO it offers.
There are a few different ways to do that. (read more)
How to Set up your Google+ Account
First, you need a Google account!
Once you’ve registered with Google, you can sign in on the Google+ page.
1. Link your Profile to your Google Account
One of the first things to do it to ensure that your Google+ profile is linked to your Google account as it will then stopyou having to log in and out of the other tools like gmail and YouTube and you will (read more)
How to Create a Backlink Plan for Optimum SEO Results
Like all other marketing, backlink creation needs a plan. Nothing serious but just think about what activities you can do daily to help increase the number of backlinks to your website for example:
Blog commenting
This is a really easy way to get some high quality backlinks really fast. We often get page one Google rankings for certain keywords from our blog commenting.
So plan to get 100 backlinks off blog comments in a month. That would mean 3 – 4 backlinks each day over the month. How? Comment on as many high ranking blogs as you can in (read more)
Creating backlinks for your website with article distribution and social media
Hopefully , by now, those of you who have been reading our blog or been on one of our training courses will understand exactly what I mean when I talk about ‘backlinks’.
For the rest of you backlinks are to do with search engine optimisation which is increasingly important to get right.
Backlinks are the main building blocks of SEO (search engine optimisation). They are the links from other sites that are (read more)
The value of online article distribution is underestimated
Articles are a great way to gain traffic and create backlinks to your site from multiple other online publishers.
If you want to get started on article distribution the quickest way is to convert your blog posts and use article distribution sites to get them moving.
However, most article distribution services that are free don’t always distribute to (read more)
I'm the founder of The Right Writer and Social Media Shop Ltd. I'm passionate about getting small to medium sized business up and running on social media to help increase online visibility and teach owner/managers how to use the tools and strategise. After all, you're all your own Marketing Directors now!
