For those that may not know, I live in the South Puget Sound. Hence, I am under 20 miles from Seattle, however that translates to an hour commute with our awesome traffic and even longer depending on the direction and time of day.
But that aside, it’s always driven me nuts that I don’t know about any local big online events until the weekend of or after. WTF? I am not bragging when I say that I am a social media nut and I also include local media …

You may think that having a successful business is based around how much marketing or advertising someone does, how well they handle customer service, or some other reason. You may be surprised to learn that having a profitable business can simply come down to determining what your target market wants and what their needs are.
Your target market is the group of people that you are marketing your products and services to. Not everyone will want to buy your product or service. For instance, all women do not need …

You will find that some internet marketers choose to work exclusively with niche marketing. A niche market is a highly targeted group of people. For instance, if you sell furniture that is a wide market. But choosing to build a site around tv lifts is a niche market.
There is a big difference between the two. If you do not carry tv lifts, the smaller niche market will not buy from you. And if you only carry tv lifts, there will be people in the wider …

Writing for the internet is different from writing for other mediums. It requires the writer to engage readers quickly in order to avoid losing them to another website. But, the readers are only part of the equation. In order to make sure your website is seen in the first place, you must also write to attract the search engines.
Search engines use complicated and frequently changing algorithms to determine how relevant a web page is to any given search term. They then rank the relevant sites from …

Deep linking is the process of linking to a specific page on a website, rather than just the homepage. For instance, a regular link would point to mysite.com, but a deep link would point to a specific page on that site, such as mysite.com/page1.
Some corporations try to discourage deep linking, as it allows users to visit a specific page, while bypassing advertising on the front page of the site. Since the home page typically gets more hits they can get more money for those ads. For most …

The point of this blog is to give you resources to make your online life easier and more effective. There are times when hiring out is the smart thing to do. For most, SEO is one of those reasons. It takes time to learn SEO, it takes time to implement it, and it takes time to watch for the results. Is this one of the things that you could be using your time doing effectively or are you better used in other aspects of your business?
Hiring …

There’s not a single one of us that doesn’t need SEO help. As soon as you think you may be getting it, the laws will change and you can start all over again. Plus there are so many steps that you may forget to do something the next page you build. Please don’t be afraid of SEO. It is a huge task, but each step you take will be good for your business. I have some great free resources for you to check into. …