Tag: SEM

One thing that I’ve learned from the SEO and internet marketing business is that nothing happens fast. It’s a continuous and steady pace of building online relationships, generating quality content, using social networks to propagate content and to strengthen relationships as well as building a strong website that as correctly coded.

A good website boosts your reputation while a bad one will scare away potential customers. This should be motivation enough to invest in a good website.

If you are new to blogging and wondering how to get started, here are blogging strategies for 2014 that you can easily integrate into your business.

If you have not dove into pay-per-click marketing and are holding off because it seems to confusing, I’ll share an easy step-by-step tutorial that will have you up and running in less than an hour.

If anyone’s ever tried P90X, you probably heard the host say, “I love it, but I hate it.” That pretty much sums up the relationship of SEO. But to get down to the first steps of increasing your websites search engine optimization, knowledge and understanding is power. Before you can understand SEO, you have to understand […]

In short, yes! Google just announced that they are factoring whether or not a website is responsive into their algorithm. An explanation by Google released on their blog explained it like this. Many sites have mobile versions of their content, but the problem is many sites only have one page optimized for mobile. What happens are […]

As a small to medium sized business, you’ve realized the importance that being involved with social media has to your customers and your business. Whether you’ve hired a company to manage your accounts, hired someone internally, or divided the responsibilities to different people throughout the company, one important thing to remember is CONSISTENCY.  The kind […]

For years companies big and small have tried to outwit the search engines in order to gain a better results on search engines.  Trends change and searches get smarter, so focus on a steady and foundational strategy.  From attempts at content relevant key words and metadata, blogging, plugins, paid adword campaigns, the fight for better […]

Pinterest, although having over 10 million users as of January 2012, is still largely unknown to a lot of business owners. Even if they have heard about it, they might have a lot of confusion as to how “pinning” works or how it could help their business at all. With a little more information and […]

Graphic Design and Marketing Newsletter from Black Bear Design. Set up Google analytics reports & welcome to newest designer Mary Frances

Social Media,talking specifically about Twitter for this blog, came on the scene. And what it did was to give the people a voice

I have been trying for some time to figure out how to change or even stop the Google Analytics weekly emailer in the new Google Analytics system to no avail.  Well, today I finally found some info on it from Google…back from November!  It shows how to do it by simply clicking the “Standard Reporting […]

So last week in Step by Step SEO Part 7, we set up webmaster tools, reviewed a WebCEO report and set up a WordPress blog on our own domain.  This week we are setting up a few plugins, categories and tags in our WordPress blog. First, lets find those important plugins to install.  If you […]

This week in Step by Step SEO part 7, we will be looking at reports, making some suggested updates, creating another Google Adwords ad and setting up a WordPress Blog.  If you haven’t been following along, you might want to start back at Step by Step SEO Part 1. First this week, we went in […]

Google webmaster tools is a FREE tool from Google that digs down to the raw data behind your site.  Its quick and easy to set up. Click Google Webmaster Tools to get started. One logged in, click the “Add a Site” button like you see here Add the URL of the website I find it […]

So this week in part 4 of our Step By Step SEO series, we will set up additional reporting and set up ads on Facebook.  This will give us another outlet for PPC marketing and immediate results in our traffic.  If your just joining the series, you might want to start back at Step By […]

This week in Step by Step SEO, a real world example of a week to week SEO process for an Atlanta Attorney, we will continue with organic SEO, and add in a little search engine marketing to jump start results on our reports.  Organic SEO takes a while, but not everyone wants to wait.  So […]

Marketing your website is ever so important today to be found in the sea of information out there.  There is no silver bullet, but there are some proven techniques that, if done over time consistently, will build momentum and make significant changes to your business. Well, when I say 5 easy steps, for some it […]

Google Maps and your Google Business Listing are a must have for local businesses.  It is proving ever so useful as a traffic tool as the map results are showing up more and more in search results.  As the more advanced phones such as the iPhone and Droid become a viable device to use when […]

Most business owners are now understanding the importance of having a social media marketing campaign.  It is well known that social media such as Facebook and Twitter can be  powerful tools in the interaction and feedback with clients and customers.  But developing a social media marketing campaign and managing it can be a difficult task. […]

There are several reasons why you should be submitting press releases online.  First and foremost, maybe you have exciting news that you want to tell the world about.  Maybe you are running a big special on your products, or possibly lowering your service rate for a monthly special.  There is even a chance you were […]