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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

For a long time there's been a certain amount of obsession among webmasters about building traffic—any traffic—for websites. But really, especially if you're location-based, the focus should be on building the right traffic.Of course, search takes center stage in that struggle, but more recently social media sites like Digg.com and BoingBoing have captured the imaginations of traffic-obsessed marketers. Here's what many of them discover, though: traffic bursts from those sites do little for sales.

Fix Your Lousy Company Blog

Businesspeople possess a unique opportunity to be more than just a cash funnel to their customers. A few steps to improve the company blog can work wonders for customer relations.

7 Reasons You May Not Be Getting Work Done

I am subscribed to a website called Daily Blog Tips. it is a great website that commonly has some great nuggets of information on how to make you blog run smoother and in general make life online a lot easier. I spotted a great post today on their called: 7 Reasons Why You Might Never Be Productive

Tips For Startups Can Apply To Any Business

If you've ever trained a newbie, you know that there's a lot of routine stuff you'll sigh your way through.  Questions or comments may bring up entirely new ideas, however, and it's for this reason that many businesses, whether they're new or old, can learn from tips for startups.

New Google Contest - Online Marketing Challenge

Looks like Google is having a contest to ask students across the world to help local business’ become more optimized in the Google SERPs:  Register your class for the Google Online Marketing Challenge

Quick SEO Tips

One of the features on my blog, The Web Optimist, is a tip box that shows a different random search engine optimization tip each time a page is loaded. As I come across little pearls of wisdom, I add it to the collection.

PubCon: Social Media Marketing Tips

The keys to successfully creating content that really grabs social media users – think not just Digg and Del.icio.us but also forums – are commitment and creativity, or so says the Interactive Site Reviews panel at PubCon.

SES Chicago: Tips From YellowPages.com

Everything can come together in Yellow Pages listings - these are what get some people to make purchases.  So this puts the Yellow Pages in a rather unique position, and Charles Stubbs, the CEO of YellowPages.com, discussed what he’s learned in the industry at SES Chicago.

SEO Software Tips

In this greedy world we live in, we always take advantage of anything that’s free. Everyone loves free stuff. It’s just the way we are. So, what better way to track your site than with the free SEO tracking software available?

How To Look Your Best In Search Results

Mom always said, "Put your best foot forward." It's valuable advice, because often how you appear on a first meeting sends subtle signals about you and can influence what happens next. We should also be concerned the same way with how we appear, what information is presented about us, in the search results.