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Stuff to Help Business Owners Have Better Web Presences

Ever wonder how much monthly traffic a website gets? C’mon, you’ve got to be curious about what kind of visits your competitors get. If you’re not, you should be!
Well, there’s a FREE and easy way to check, just use Compete. It’s really simple. I should note that I am not being paid to make this [...]

Ever wonder if anyone clicked the link you included in a Twitter post? Wonder no more. Try bit.ly.

bit.ly is an extremely simple-to-use tool that shortens URLs. As a result, it makes sharing links via Twitter or Facebook even easier. That’s valuable because sharing quality and helpful content is important for your credibility. Best of all, [...]

In case you aren’t one of the cast of thousands (slightly exaggerated) that regularly reads the great content we generate here, a blog adds a lot of SEO value to your website. If you don’t have a blog as part of your current content strategy, then you need to set one up. As always, I [...]

5 Basic Blogging Tips

This is a quick follow-up to my last post about why your website needs a blog. There are a lot of tips I could write about blogging. Here are some of the most basic, and valuable, tips I share with business owners who ask me about blogging.
If you are planing to add a blog, or [...]