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34 Ways To Build Your Email List
There is no doubt about it… If you are looking for a low-cost way to reach existing customers and potential new ones with a marketing message, finding ways to build your email list is a great option. Not only is email marketing an affordable way to spread the word about your brand, product or service,…
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12 Top Blog Post Ideas
As a website owner, you should know the importance of good quality content. You probably already have a number of great blog posts on your website. With all the other chores associated with keeping your website operating, coming up with great blog post ideas, and producing new content may not be a high priority. What…
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On-Page SEO Checklist
So you have got a business website, or are just about to launch one. Good work! But a website without traffic is basically useless. That’s where a basic SEO checklist can help. There are a number of ways to get traffic to your website, including: Word of mouth Linked to from other websites and social…
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How To Schedule A Post In WordPress
Like many things, scheduling posts in WordPress is quite easy, once you know how. Below I will outline the steps you need to take, plus run through some plugins that can help you with this task. However, before we get to that, you may be wondering why you might want or need to schedule posts…
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Getting Online – How To Create and Maintain Your Own Website
Over the last few years, we have talked to hundreds of small business owners about the challenges that they face with promoting their business online. One of the major pain points for many business owners is that they just don’t know where to start. So I wanted to talk about that issue here, as well…
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[Video Tutorial] Google Mobile-Friendly Test
A change to how Google ranks your site now includes whether or not your website is mobile responsive. So if your site is not mobile responsive, Google can penalise your site in search results. A couple of quick ways to check whether your website is mobile-responsive: simply resize your window. If it does not automatically resize…
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[Video Tutorial] Backlink Profiles – Majestic SEO
There are 2 primary types of links – Internal Links These are links within your site and help with the navigation around your site. This will lead to a better user experience, and this will be noticed by Google and can help with your rankings in the search engines. It’s good practice to display links…
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[Video Tutorial] Keywords and On-Page SEO
We have already run through the use of the Google Keyword Planner in a previous video tutorial. So once you have decided what keywords you should be targeting, you need to know what to do with them. It is good practice to place keywords in the page title, headings (H1, H2, etc), alt text of images, Meta…
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[Video Tutorial] Keywords and the Google Keyword Planner
Most of us have heard of keywords and that they are important for your business website. By using the right keywords, it can help improve your search engine rankings, meaning more people will see your business in Google and be able to click through to your website, where you are given the opportunity to turn these…
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