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5 Reasons Why Businesses Need SEO

October 27, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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You’ve heard about SEO. You are convinced that SEO works really well for different types of businesses online. What you might be wondering is the why— why a business needs SEO and why it’s so powerful. SEO is a strategic process of increasing a website’s traffic quality and quantity by boosting its visibility to search […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: link building, marketing strategies, search engine optimization, seo strategies, small business, visibility on search engines

How to Launch Revenue Revolution in Your Small Business Today

August 17, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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The COVID-19 virus has shaken the world of small business owners. In a recent study of SHRM, 42% of small business owners have to close their businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile,  6 out of ten small businesses reported a decrease in revenue since the beginning of COVID-19. This report sounds really disturbing, but […]

Filed Under: 10 Things Lists, Branding & Marketing Tagged With: COVID-19 marketing efforts, new content strategy, revenue revolution, search engine optimization, social media activities

How to Use Video for More Traffic and Better Onsite SEO

August 18, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Search engine optimization (SEO) is a popular term in marketing and business-building circles. It makes sense. If you can drive consistent organic traffic to your company’s website, you’ll have a much easier time generating quality leads for your business. In this article, we’ll take a look at what onsite SEO is (as opposed to off-site […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Your Small Business Tagged With: onsite SEO efforts, search engine optimization, seo for small business, video, video content

3 Low-Budget DIY SEO Tools for Small Businesses to Use in 2020

June 2, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Small businesses have a lot on their plate to maintain and strengthen their position in the market,  build a strong brand image, customer loyalty, increase sales, and survive the cut-throat competition.  Hence, having a strong brand presence on various online platforms to boost sales and maximize profits is crucial for SMEs to survive. In this […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: search engine optimization, search engine ranking, SEO strategy, SEO tools, small-scale business owner

6 SEO Tips for Start-ups and Small Businesses

February 18, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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You may not realize it, but there are actually several reasons why you will want to consider making use of SEO for your small business. By ensuring that you know exactly what you are doing, you can make the most out of your SEO endeavor, and this is something that any smaller business can benefit […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Grow Your Business Tagged With: search engine optimization, SEO, seo for small business, seo phrases, seo strategies

What You Need to Know About SEO for Your Business Website

August 15, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

SEO for your business website

Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9pm ET.  This is excerpted from my recent interview with Akilah Thompkins, @girlgetvisible. Akilah is the owner of Girl Get Visible, Author of My SEO Workbook and the host of the […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, SmallBizChat Tagged With: business website, Google ranking, keywords, search engine optimization, SEO, small business, website

5 Ways to Improve Your Visibility on Search Engines in 2019

February 21, 2019 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Whatever business you’re doing today, a considerable number of your potential customers use search engines. They use them to find the right businesses to provide solutions to their problems. How would you rate your visibility on search engines? Does your business appear for the right search terms? If it doesn’t, you’ve been losing many potential […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Business Inspiration, Guest Articles, Technology Tagged With: search engine optimization, SEO, visibility on search engines

Why Link Diversity Should Be Your Primary SEO Concern

December 25, 2018 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Guest Article Every discussion about Google rankings and SEO involves backlinks someway. Why? Because these are one of the major ranking factors in most of the search engines, Google specifically. If we look at SEO Power Suite, Search Metrics, and Backlinko’s research insights, inbound links are there in the ranking factors list besides content and […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Featured Post, Guest Articles, Technology Tagged With: link diversity, search engine optimization, SEO

3 SEO Tactics Could Get You Kicked Out of Google

July 7, 2015 By Melinda Emerson 2 Comments

Guest Article Ever dabbled in SEO before? You know, Search Engine Optimization? It’s a way to use content to try to get more organic traffic from search engines like Google. If you have, you might have experience with the spectrum that is everything you can do to allegedly help your site rise in the search […]

Filed Under: Branding & Marketing, Guest Articles, Technology Tagged With: @lizlockard, black hat, Liz Lockard, search engine optimization, SEO, white hat

8 Traffic-Driving SEO Tips

June 8, 2015 By Melinda Emerson 4 Comments

The secret to getting more visitors (and customers) on your website is knowing how to attract them. That, my friends, is what Search Engine Optimization — also called SEO — is all about. But don’t despair! You don’t have to be a technological whiz kid to be able to make SEO work for your small […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: keywords, search engine optimization, SEO, website traffic

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