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Google and Your Web Site: Tools for Web Site Marketing and Promotion

When you’ve attended my workshops or conference presentations, you have heard this message repeatedly: “Make your web site work for you, now! Learn how your web site needs to change to become your best marketing and “make me money” tool.” Let’s focus on Google and your web site…and how Google’s free tools can assist you with web site promotion of your business and marketing of your products and services.

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7 Ways to Make Money with Your Blog

Monetize your blog and change your blog from a drain on your financial resources to an asset. Here are 7 ways to make money with your blog.

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Google Places: The Benefits of Getting Listed at Google

Google Places is Google’s way of giving local business owners an upper hand. Search engines are notoriously difficult to rank for (rank=get to the top of the first page of listings). However, with Google Places, your business can quickly leap to the top of the listings even with a brand new website.

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4 Glaring Mistakes Small Business Web Site Owners Need to Fix

After all the money and time spent on web sites, many business web site owners don’t know if their web site is attracting people who are in the target market the web site was intended to reach. Or, they never identified their audience, who they were trying to connect with and convert from prospects to customers. None of the web site owners knew how to remedy this situation and they felt overwhelmed by the notion of testing, tracking and tweaking their web site to increase traffic and conversions. There are 4 glaring errors being made by the small business web site owners whose web sites I reviewed last week.

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3 Benefits of Adding a Blog to Your Website — Or Blogging from the Start

Web Site Marketing Strategies: the best choice for effective web site marketing is to add a blog to your web site. If you’re just getting started with web site marketing, then build your web site marketing hub using WordPress and blog from the beginning!

Google opens new merchant inventory feature for small local business

Google Opens New Feature for Local Biz: Local Merchant Inventory

Fresh news from Google: Google has opened a new feature for small, local businesses, Local Merchant Inventory. The Local Merchant Inventory feature is a potential business builder for some local merchants in the near future.