Gregg Murray, Website Blueprint
SEO (search engine optimization) is a crucial part of a website’s marketing strategy, but black hat SEO is not the answer. Black hat SEO tactics use methods that are dishonest at best and illegal at worst. The search engines hate them, can smell them a mile away, and using them can leave your website banned from search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing. So why do people use them? They [...]
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The importance of having a blog for your small business website has become soooooooo crucial. Check out Why Small Business Owners Need a Blog. If you don’t yet have a website, you cannot pass go or collect your $200 until you understand you gotta’ have a website and a blog. If you have a website, but don’t have a blog, I’m going to do whatever I have to (don’t make [...]
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Congratulations to our website review winners. Each of these crazy-lucky websites (well, their owners actually) will receive a 1:1 online review with me. Get ready for some tough love :) www.ccconsulting.org.uk www.vintageladyharpersferry.com www.massbayspeakersguild.com Congrats!
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You have a Web site, but how effective is it? In today’s competitive market, a Web site with marketing power gives you a big advantage over competitors. There’s an online tool called Website Grader that can give you some pretty interesting insight. But…here’s the catch…it’s free. Yup. Free. As in no cash. As in dollars that STAY in your cash register. (applause) About.com even named it a 2010 Best Online [...]
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I recently got together on the phone with Laura Roeder of www.lauraroeder.com for a 40-minute interview on using social media for small business owners. I wanted to ask the big questions I thought you would want to know about using social media like blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. If I missed one, add it into the comments area at the end of this post. Hover your mouse over the image [...]
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On May 1, I’ll be selecting 10 websites for a free video review. Be sure to get your name on this list today. Wonder if you’ll get some good (free) advice? See what other folks have said. Click Here for Your Chance to Win Now
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Gregg Murray of Website Blueprint interviews email marketing expert, Justin Premick of AWeber Communications. The 54-minute interview answers the top 20 questions small business owners want to know about professional email marketing. Hover your mouse over the image below to see play/pause/volume controls. I recently got together on the phone with Justin Premick, Director of Education Marketing at AWeber Communications for an in-depth interview on email marketing for small business [...]
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Gregg Murray, the Website Blueprint Architect has been named the newest contributor to www.allbusiness.com. AllBusiness.com is one of the premier business sites on the Web. The site was founded in 1999, and has received critical acclaim from The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business 2.0, Fortune, and other publications as one of the best business sites on the Web. AllBusiness.com provides entrepreneurs, small and growing businesses, consultants and business professionals everything [...]
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The aesthetics of your website, as well as your complete business brand is often left to a single graphic or web designer that you know or have worked with in the past. This can be a good thing…if you’re lucky and have found a diamond in the rough. However, way too often the graphics that are part of your website (as well as throughout your small business collateral materials) often lack [...]
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