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The SmallBizChat Podcast: Level Up Your Website with Billy Polson

May 13, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Billy Polson, CSCS, is an International Speaker, Fitness Entrepreneur, and Business Performance Coach. He is the founder and co-owner of DIAKADI, a training facility that brings together a community of leading fitness specialists in San Francisco. Men’s Journal named him one of “America’s Best 100 Trainers,” and he has contributed to publications such as CBS […]

Filed Under: The SmallBizChat Podcast Tagged With: content creation, increasing website conversions, mobile-friendly website, SEO, social proof, website links, website's landing page

How to Reduce Page Load time in 2022?

December 7, 2021 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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The ever-growing digital era has taken a sharp edge over the years. It is growing at a rapid pace. Every company, be it a start-up or a vast enterprise, owns a website. A website plays a vital role in converging the viewers towards generating leads that ultimately help in revenue generation.   In addition, there are […]

Filed Under: Fix Your Business, Grow Your Business Tagged With: improve site performance, interactive web pages, optimize image, page load time, responsive browser, SEO

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

The Battle for Traffic through SEO and Social Media Marketing

January 28, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

The Battle for Traffic through SEO and Social Media Marketing Open Graph

 You may face a dilemma when you want to gain more traffic to your site as to whether you should focus on organic SEO or go for SMM or Social Media Marketing. Moreover, with advanced SEO reigning supreme now in the social media marketing landscape, this choice seems to be harder to make. Ideally, experts […]

Filed Under: Social Media, Your Small Business Tagged With: Google ranking, SEO, seo techniques, smm, social media marketing

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

Three tips for using web analytics tools

September 12, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

Sponsored Post Business owners need data to scale. We need it for inspiring stats about the growth of certain industries. We need it to deepen our relationships with our customers, to figure out what works for them and what doesn’t. Perhaps the need for data is what drives so many of my Google Digital Coach […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Guest Articles, Technology Tagged With: Google Adwords Express, google analytics, SEO, Web analytics

7 Ways to Drive Organic Search Traffic to Your Small Business Website

February 6, 2017 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

With Google changing the algorithm frequently and keyword changing every 4-6 weeks depending on what you sell, it’s a cutthroat world when it comes to climbing to page one of search results these days. Your small business is competing with bigger brands with deeper pockets who can afford major SEO budgets. The big boys spend […]

Filed Under: Grow Your Business, Technology Tagged With: organic search, SEO, website traffic

7 Local Link Building Tips

March 8, 2016 By Melinda Emerson 1 Comment

By now, hopefully, everyone knows that links are not bad things—if they are the right links. Done right, links can get you more visibility and build a healthy link profile. If you have a local business, you can take advantage of some unique ways to get the links that can ultimately help you. Links specifically […]

Filed Under: Guest Articles, Social Media Tagged With: business planning, entrepreneur, SEO, small business, small business seo, smallbizlady, social media, twitter

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