Tag: SEO

Not ready to redesign your outdated website?  There may be small improvements you can make to your website to buy you some time, including fonts, pictures and backgrounds. Video Transcript: Today, I want to talk about taking something plain and boring, and making it a little better than plain and boring!  What I have done […]

Google Adwords campaigns are simple, yet complex if you are just getting started. In this video, learn what a campaign is, learn what an adgroup is and learn what ads are. Also learn how to create an optimized ad.

Inbound marketing is a sure way of generating traffic and leads on your website. It should be a part of your digital marketing strategy. Make sure you have the analytic tools in place to measure your marketing effectiveness.

There are many online content promotion strategies you can use and it’s easy to get in the web of using any and all forms of promotion methods.

As an online marketing company, I fall into the trap of statistics. When is the last time a stat purchased a product or service from you? People buy products, not stats!

It’s simple, there are 3 ways you can increase sales from your website: Traffic, Conversions, Quality.

When leads join your sales funnel, you want to connect with them on a personal level. People buy from those that they trust and this also applies to online buyers. Prospects have to trust you before they can buy your product or service. How do you build trust online? By providing value. You want to interact […]

When choosing a domain name for your business, keep these three things in mind: domain auction, spelling, keywords

Creating high converting landing pages is not something that you do the first time and get it right. You have to test and optimize your landing pages.

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 […]