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Business Blogging – Consistency is the Key

by Jo Dodds Admin on 2011-10-26

In your business blogging you need to bear in mind that consistency is going to be the key to driving steady traffic to your website, but also as a way of engaging with your readers. People will come to expect a certain style from you from your writing and even down to the font and [...]

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In another in our series of guest blogs, Jo Shaer of Lollipop Local tells us about the potential pitfalls of small business web design and small business SEO
“What do you mean I don’t own my website?”
Changing your small business web design should be simple but I have now been on the receiving end of this [...]

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I have just read an excellent post on the Hubspot website about how to optimise your website page and blog posts. I have followed these basic rules for a long time – one reason why I can maintain a reasonably high level of traffic to this website without daily (or sometimes even weekly!) blogging.
Optimise your [...]

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I was checking my Google Analytics over the weekend and found something strange!
Search for jo dodds, social media + how good?
There have recently been 10 searches for “”jo dodds, social media” + “how good?””, which is interesting for a number of reasons.
I’m guessing that whoever has been doing that search must be looking for some [...]

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Free Website Traffic: Simple Steps

by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-10-26

You want to create an online presence where you attract people and get more website traffic through inbound marketing rather than having to bombard them with interruptive advertising.
There are simple steps that you can follow to improve your chances of being found in a Google search and to get free website traffic. Some of those [...]

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Social Media: B is for Blogging

by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-09-22

Many business owners thinking about getting a new website grimace when I mention the concept of blogging. They immediately start explaining how they don’t have anything to say, how no one wants to read it anyway and how websites with blogs on them really annoy them, or a number of other variations on this theme!
Blogging [...]

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Local Search: Google Maps vs Website

by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-01-26

I had an email yesterday from a fellow small business online marketing specialist with a question. He has some business owners saying that as they have a Google Maps entry they don’t see why they should bother to have a website as well. His question was what would I say in answer to them?
All small [...]

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I recently completed a Camtasia video for a local directory owner to be uploaded to YouTube to promote his directory and give viewers some useful hints and tips about how to optimise your directory entries to make them as useful as possible to you in improving your local online web presence.
I thought you might be [...]

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Is your website working as hard as you are getting new customers and getting more from your existing customers?
If not, why not!”
You may be saying,”My customers are local, why do I need to appear near the top of the search engines or even appear on them at all?”. Well, research reveals that 70% of customers [...]

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