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Guest Posting in the Travel Industry: A How-to Guide

Guest Posting in the Travel Industry: A How-to GuideAs the world becomes smaller and more connected, so too does the travel industry. What once was a fragmented market segment is now flooded with content from almost every major brand and outlet. In fact, according to Content Marketing Institute, the travel and tourism industry produces more than 1 billion content marketing articles annually. That’s a lot of content! But that also means there’s... ❯❯❯

Guest Blogging and the Benefits for Your Law Firm

Guest Blogging and the Benefits for Your Law FirmYou’ve probably heard about guest blogging as a way to increase your law firm’s visibility and the number of followers you have on social media. And you’re right—that is exactly what guest blogging achieves. But, there are many other benefits that your law firm can get from it too! With the increasing competition, firms need to find new ways of standing out from the crowd. Guest Blogging is one... ❯❯❯

If You Dread The Next Google Update, It's Time to Get Back to SEO Basics

Introduction The world of technology is constantly changing. Mobile traffic has exploded in the past ten years, from 6% of internet traffic in 2011 to 54% in 2021. Smart Homes are on the rise. And the world of search engine optimization changes at a dizzying rate. But as much as things continue to change, we know some things to be true.  Digital technology holds a central place in our lives.... ❯❯❯

The Daily Realities Of Working In SEO

The Daily Realities Of Working In SEOAnyone who likes the idea of working in the digital arena will have to make a choice concerning which niche they want to pursue. At the current time, lots of talented individuals are choosing to concentrate their efforts on finding SEO work. To help set the record straight, we got in touch with a top professional to find out about the true realities of the job. They gave us a basic outline of... ❯❯❯

Keep Your Customers Returning To Your Website With These Fantastic Ideas

Keep Your Customers Returning To Your Website With These Fantastic IdeasWhat’s better than having lots of people visiting your website? How about having the same people come back and visit again? But how can you convince visitors to your site to come back again? What is it that makes people return to a site again and again? As a business owner, you should aim to create a website that is like chocolate - addictive. What you want to do is create a website that is so... ❯❯❯

5 Effortless Ways to Promote Your Small Business Online

These days, promoting a business is something that happens predominantly online. This is great for those of you starting a new business or operating a small business. It means you can get your business heard about without spending all the money that used to be involved with opening a business. That doesn’t necessarily mean promoting a business online is easy. It might be cheaper, but if you... ❯❯❯

Free and Easy Methods to Increase Online Exposure for Your Web Business

If you’re looking to increase the viability of your business you’ve got to get on the internet. The web is the best way for you to vastly expand your potential consumer base, reach emerging markets all around the world and even create some viral excitement that takes your brand to the next level. But once you get your company online you’ve got to make sure people find it. And that’s no easy task.... ❯❯❯

5 Tips for Creating and Promoting Infographics for Your Blog

Whether blogging is your main operation in the online arena or you happen to run a commercial website with an on-site blog attached as a way to increase traffic and provide customers with added value, you might be looking for ways to make the layout more attractive and provide users with easy-to-share snippets of information. If you’re optimizing your blog, you obviously want to get as much... ❯❯❯

How to Use Infographics and Data Visualization for SEO

Infographics have steadily been gaining popularity in the online arena over the past few years. And it’s no wonder considering all they have to offer. For one thing, they aren’t comprised of bulky blocks of text that scare away visitors to your site. When you enter a web page and all you see is line after line of print, it’s no doubt enough to make you back out and head for the competition. Not... ❯❯❯

Submit Sitemap to Yahoo and MSN

Sitemaps are starting to become nearly ubiquitous, but we've seen a lot of sites ignoring Yahoo! and MSN - a big mistake! You can seriously boost your search traffic referrals from these engines by not only submitting, but verifying/registering your sitemaps with them. Yahoo!'s registration is here, and MSN/Live's is here.... ❯❯❯

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) Promo Code (May 2009)

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) is one of best web directories to submit your websites and blogs. Being included in BOTW's directory will help to increase your Google ranking and will bring more traffic to your site. Use the following promo code to get 15% off on All NEW Submissions and Sponsorship Advertising in the Best of the Web Directory and BOTW Blog Directory. This promo code expires on... ❯❯❯

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) Promo Code (September 2009)

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) is one of best web directories to submit your websites and blogs. Being included in BOTW's directory will help to increase your Google ranking and will bring more traffic to your site. Use the following promo code to get 20% off on All NEW Submissions and Sponsorship Advertising in the Best of the Web Directory and BOTW Blog Directory. SINCE94 This promo code... ❯❯❯

Google Pagerank Update and Directory Submission

Google updated their page rank again recently. As a results, the PR values for many directories have changed again. So, I've complied a list of directories based on their PR value. The original list was from avivadirectory.com's Strongest Directories List. PR: 9 http://bubl.ac.uk/ (free) PR: 8 http://dir.yahoo.com ($299 per year) (Directory subdomain has page strength of 10 as... ❯❯❯

How to Use Web2.0 Tricks to Get Good Ranking

I just learned about a method to get good Google rankings: Step One: Write a post to Your blog. Step Two: Submit a snippet of the post to sites like Digg and Propeller. Step Three: Bookmark the snippet pages on sites like Delicious, Reddit and StumbleUpon. Step Four: Ping the bookmark RSS feeds using sites like Autopinger and Pingomatic. (Note: Reddit is nofollow until you get at least one... ❯❯❯

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) Promo Code (New!)

Best of the Web Directory (BOTW) is one of the most useful directories to submit your websites. Use the following promo code to get 20% off the regular submission price on Best of the Web's website submission and sponsorship advertising: ZOMBIE This promo code expires on October 31st, 2008. To use this coupon promo code, click here or the coupon image below to visit BOTW and enter the promo... ❯❯❯