SEO Strategy: Page Titles

In the preceeding post, I talked about one way to increase your page rank: Inbound Links. Another way for search engines to find you is to title each page on your website carefully and creatively. Your page title is displayed in search results as the most prominent piece of information available to searchers, so choose

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SEO Strategy: Inbound Links

It’s all part of the SEO game plan, which starts with making your website your

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mini-branding Part 1

Your brand is not your logo, your color scheme, your PR or even your product. Your brand is the feeling people have when they think of you.

I had a boss who worked at the happiest place on earth, and always mentioned that the coffee shops on Main Street would place vanilla extract in warming trays

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Upselling Worms

I was standing behind my white plastic table at the Friday Farmers’ Market with a choice bucket of worm bedding spread out before me. As potential customers drift past the honey and lavender booths, they come to a stop and watch as I uncover a dark chunk of earth, break it open like a chocolate

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3 Types of Sideways Advertising

Traditional advertising works: ads placed in targeted media with clean graphics and a clear call to action bring in the clients. But do you know about “sideways” advertising and PR campaigns that at first glance aren’t targeted, yet increase the PR of a company for everyone’s benefit?

1. Social Networking. Are you on Facebook? MySpace? Twitter?

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