Optimize The Google Content Network
Take Advantage...

You’ve bought in to the AdWords hype and decided to try and reach a broader audience for your business. Make …

Happy Customers Buy Again
Keep them coming back...

Like employee loyalty, customer loyalty is something you have to work at. Just because someone bought from you once doesn’t …

Don’t Let A Bad Reputation Drag Your Business Down
There are precautions you can take...
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About a month ago, a Pew Internet and American Life project study showed that over half of Internet users have …

Color Coordination For Businesses
Avoiding "My eyes! My eyes!"
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Let’s be honest: if you walk into a fine jewelry shop and find that the walls have been painted fluorescent …

Tips for Getting Your Business found in Local Searches
Local search is a crucial part of marketing a small business.
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While it is always good to get customers from around the globe, your goal should be to have a dominant …

The Potential and Pitfalls of Mobile Marketing
Using SMS to Market Your Business
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Earlier this week I attended a fascinating seminar put on by the Maine Marketing Association on mobile marketing. Specifically, Andrew …

Creative Content Creation and Promotion Approaches

In this month’s Target Marketing Magazine, a TopRank authored article on how small businesses can gain a competitive marketing advantage …

Small Business and Outsourcing Online Marketing

Experts are predicting that small business will be the lifeline for search engine marketing companies moving forward. While big firms …

How Do Your Customers Know What They Want?
"That doesn't apply to us..."

If you read my post the other day,  you understand how I feel about solving your customers’ problems instead of …

Solving Customers’ Problems to Create Relationships
Forget the breathless hype of the old days...
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If you read my monthly newsletter the other day, you understand that I think that the Web is ushering in …

Great Tips For Startups
Use Every Tool You Can...

ReadWriteWeb has 36 great tips for startups. One thing I’d add to that list: make sure you use every tool …

Set the Right Performance Objectives for Online Ad Campaigns
Are You Setting the Right Ones?

What feels like an eternity ago, I wrote an article titled, “Are Your Internet Goals Leaning Against the Right Wall” …

Price Yourself at a Fair Value

A friend of mine suggested I read Dan Kennedy’s The Ultimate Success Secret, a great motivational marketing book. One passage …

In-House Link Building Not Always Practical
Let's Look at the Flipside...

I read an article over at SEW  by Justilien Gaspard, which gives reasons why companies should keep their link building …

Marketing Fundamentals for the Online Business
Give them some thought...

When going online, few people give much thought to all the aspects of running an online business. But in order …

Make Sure Your Search Engine Marketer Knows About These Items!
New Statements from Google

Two important statements came out of Google recently, and as Google goes, so does the search engine market. Make sure …

How Small Business Owners Should Manage Their Google Reputations
Don't Get Caught with a Bad Reputation...

There’s nothing worse than Googling your company or product and finding negative reviews in Google’s top 10 search results. Managing …

Goodbye Branding (Doesn’t Matter What You Say)
No One Really Cares

The greatest problem that marketeers have these days is that no one really cares what they say.  The only opinions …

How Glossaries & FAQs Can Improve Search Engine Rankings
These Work Time and Time Again

A large part of my time at StepForth as a search engine optimization consultant is spent conducting competitor research on …

Profiting From Site Images
Not Always thought of

The other day we were leaving a soccer game for my 6 year old boy. My 2 year old wasn’t …

Building Your Brand Through Social Media
When you hear the phrase social media what comes to mind?

 What associations do you make with social media where marketing and seo are concerned? Did you think of a site …

Controlling Cost vs Adding Value
Everything is Becoming a Commodity

One theory of web marketing starts off with controlling cost. Where you try to find what works right now, and …