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Archive for September 2010

Design Is Dead!

By Todd · Comments (0)
Friday, September 10th, 2010

Okay, maybe not.  But it’s important to keep in mind that filling your marketing funnel and making sales is the primary consideration of any infopreneur or emarketer.  A plain web site with a compelling offer and a functional opt-in will outsell a site that emphasizes design and lacks that compelling offer and functional opt-in any day of the week.  The most important thing you can do to get your business online is to take action and do it now!  Create your offer, build your list.  Design can wait.

However, make sure your logo and business name accurately reflect your business’s vision.  Spend the hours and days it takes to agonize over them to get them just right.  Hah!  Gotcha!  Those don’t matter one bit.  Get going.  Do things wrong quickly, testing as you go.  Let’s make some money!  Design is, if not dead, not nearly as important as we make it out to be.  Quit stalling.

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Categories : Business, Getting Online, Marketing, Web Site

SEO is an Ongoing Effort

By Todd · Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Someone mentioned to me the other day that their web person didn’t do SEO.  Others regularly ask about how to do it.  As StrategicGains builds WordPress-based sites for eMarketers, I get those kinds of comments and questions a lot.  Here’s a couple of tips.

There are two types of SEO and both must be done in order to be fully optimized:

1) On-page optimization–pages on your site that are optimized for your chosen keywords.  This is about 20% of your SEO value.

2) Off-page optimization–pages outside your site that have authority with the search engines that contain back-links to pages within your website (e.g. article sites, HubPages, Squidoo, etc.).  This is the other 80% of your SEO value.

On-page optimization may be a one-time effort, placing your keywords in meta tags and in page content and links as the pages are created.  As mentioned, though, that’s only going to be 20% effective.

The big value comes with off-page optimizations, posting to article sites and other authority sites such as Squidoo, HubPages, Tumblr, etc.  And it’s important to note that this is an ongoing effort.  It’s more like social marketing than a one-time deal.

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Categories : Marketing
Tags : internet marketing, SEO, social marketing

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