Posts Tagged ‘ small business websites ’

4 SEO Myths That You Should Never Believe

April 26, 2011
4 SEO Myths That You Should Never Believe

SEO is a tricky subject. It seems like everyone on the web wants you to believe that they’re an SEO expert. However, there are plenty of SEO myths floating around out there that can do you a lot more harm than good. People who are focusing on shopping cart SEO or e-commerce SEO usually fall victim to these myths, because the so-called “gurus” know that those sites need to be high in the rankings to make any real money – and might be willing to listen to just about anything. If you really want to see SEO success, you’ll...

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Seasonal Work at Home Ideas

January 8, 2010

Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer in the Southern. It got me thinking just how many little opportunities the seasons can bring for making a little extra cash. The harsh northern winter this year has seen some enterprising individuals offering snow and ice clearing in their local neighbourhoods and we’ve heard of some also offering to de-ice cars and even warm them up ready for the morning commute! What is such a service worth? Charge what you think you can! Personally having the driveway ready to drive out of and the car de-iced ready to roll would be worth...

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Getting Listed on Google

August 18, 2009

Most small businesses including home based ones end up with a website, whether to sell products or to catalogue services or just talk about the business. Whether you build it yourself or have it professionally built, your next task is to get people actually using it. As any web designer who handles small business clients can tell you, there are a huge number of people out there who still believe in the maxim “build it and they will come”. This unfortunately is simply not the case. Unless your site is one of a small few that deal in the...

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How to Make Money from Websites

September 22, 2008

When we pose the question how to make money from websites, we tend to think of websites as a marketing channel where we market our wares, show off our successes, sell affiliate products or just write about our interests and monetize with ad placements. We can certainly make money from websites in those ways but we keep forgetting there is another way! When we have learned how to establish websites and maybe even learned how to optimize them for some search engine traffic, we have learned a skill that is very much in demand by local business owners. Thee...

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