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How will Google+ help your business?
SO, the latest BUZZ is Google+ and you’re probably wondering what exactly it is and how it can help your business. Right? Perfect! You should want to know what all the buzz is about!
Business all across the world are tapping into social media to build their business through Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Youtube and so many other platforms. It can become overwhelming, especially for small businesses and entrepreneurs. However, there are a lot of advantages from this new social network that you may want to take a look at and incorporate it into your marketing plan.
In a nutshell, Google+ is a social networking platform, but you can look at it a lot of different waysbut has many different aspects to it. It’s a little like Facebbook, only cleaner. It’s a little like Twitter, only more engaging. It could possibly be a great collaboration and communication tool and what’s cool about it is that you can control who sees information by sharing it with specific people or groups and has a potential to send a TON of traffic to your website. Sounds pretty cool, huh?
Google+ is obviously a Google Product so therefore all of the content that runs through Google+ is indexed and is accepted by all of the search engines.
So, the big question is, “How will Google+ help your business?“. Well, as we know, social networking is a way to share valuable content, get a lot of exposure to your websites, and build relationships, etc. In fact, more people are using social networks instead of face to face meetings. Don’t get me wrong, people are still going to face to face meetings, but most are using the social networking platforms much more frequently. I personally am a big advocate of doing old school networking with new school networking because it just works extremely well together.
Now, here’s what is great about Google+ …
Google+ allows you to share videos, pictures, url’s and location information with everyone, or with a select few Remember, you have full control and is indexed in the search engines…where Facebook and Linked is not. It’s more ‘exclusive’ to your friends and connections. That is the difference and what makes Google+ very unique.
It’s definitely something to keep an eye on and tap into to help your business.
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Best Search Engine Optimization Tips: 5 Simple SEO WordPress Techniques
In this article, you will learn the best search engine optimization tips for WordPress. WordPress is the most effective traffic generation program to use . However, some none-techie small business owners shy away from using WordPress because they think it’s a difficult application. But, it’s not. WordPress is quite easy to learn and you can have a WordPress Blog up and running in a matter of a few minutes.
Now although the search engines LOVE WordPress blogs, you still need to learn some key points when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO) so that your blog posts can be found on the internet. And you do not have to be an SEO expert to execute these simple SEO strategies for your blog. You just simply need a little knowledge and the will to apply what you learn so that you can start seeing results.
Here are 5 Simple SEO WordPress Techniques
1 – PERMALINKS: When you create a new page or a new post, WordPress will generate a standard URL which consists of a question mark followed by numbers. When you use these raw links, it’s hard for the search engine spiders to attach themselves to it. As a result, the site will not be listed in the directories. So, to avoid this, a special permalink code is needed. The code should be placed in your permalinks custom section of your WordPress admin. Simply go to ‘settings’, then ‘permalinks’, then choose ‘custom’ and put this code in the field: /%post_id%/%postname%/ and click save. Now, instead of having a long ugly URL, you will have a URL with whatever keyword you assign to it when creating your post.
2 – TITLES: When creating your blog posts, make sure that you put the keyword that you are using for your post in the title. Since the spiders read from left to right, It is best to add your keyword first and then your title for the blog post. For example: Let’s say your keyword is “best search engine optimization tips“, write your title to look like this: “Best Search Engine Optimization Tips: 5 Simple SEO WordPress Techniques”. Always start the title off with your keyword and then put your actual title next to it. And try to come up with catchy titles to entice your target readers to click on your post.
3 – BODY: As you write your content for your blog post, be sure to start your first sentence in your first paragraph off with your chosen keyword. Then as you continue to write, simply incorporate your chosen keyword no more than 3 times throughout the article. Do not over do it because it will look spammy and the search engines to not like that.
4 – TAGS: WordPress has a section on the right side of your post section called TAGS. Here is where you will put your keywords for your blog post. The best thing for you to do is to not put more than 2 or 3 relevant keywords. Anything more than that will confuse the spiders when it comes to indexing your content. The first keyword tag should be the keyword that you are using in your title. So, for example, if your keyword is “Best Search Engine Optimization Tips”, then that should be the first keyword in the TAG section. And the other 2 keywords would be perhaps “Best SEO Tips” and “Simple SEO WordPress Techniqes”. Again, just be sure that it is relevant to your post.
5 – PING SERVICES: Using ping services such as pingomatic.com or pingoat.com allows you to send signals to the search engines to inform them that you have posted new content on your site. When you alert them, they send the spiders to your site to crawl your content to index it accordingly.
So, as you can see, optimizing your site on WordPress is not as difficult as many people think it is. You can also install a free SEO Plugin for additional optimization within WordPress. The 2 best ones are ALL-In-One-SEO and HeadSpace2.