November News
Happy Thanksgiving!! Thanks for being a part of my little community, and continuing to subscribe to this newsletter. My hope is that these news articles not only help you with their content, but that by getting this list, you can relax and feel you don’t have to scan the online marketing world for important […]
Oct 15 News
October Internet Marketing Roundup Hi Everyone! First I want to welcome all my new subscribers who I met at the Montana Brewers Association meeting. I was honored to be asked to speak at their annual conference about Internet Marketing. I had a great time meeting everyone, and hope I was able to share some […]
Thanks MBA for letting me present
Today I had the honor of presenting a talk on Internet Marketing at the Montana Brewers Association meeting. Special thanks to Blake of Bonfire Branding to the invitation. What a great group of people. I love how collaborative these businesses are. I get the sense they all want to see the industry as a whole […]
Local Directories… how to claim them
One of the areas that is most confusing in my line of work is helping businesses decide how to claim and update all the various directory listings. Having accurate listings in a multitude of online directories IS important for a variety of reasons. a. They can be a helpful ranking factor in getting your site […]
New trick with Google remarketing Smart Lists
If you’ve seen banner ads start to appear everywhere you visit on the web after visiting a certain website, you’ve been on the receiving end of “Remarketing”. Many companies now offer this service, including Facebook and Google Adwords. As an advertiser taking advantage of this, there can be an almost unlimited number of ways to […]
Internet Marketing 101 presentation
A few times each year I have the pleasure of speaking on the fascinating world of Internet Marketing. Recently, I was invited to speak again at a group of young professionals, many of whom work in the non-profit area. The audience was attentive and asked great questions! (I’ll mention a few below). I promised them […]
What is Movember and No Shave November?
What’s with all the facial hair? If you have been seeing a bunch of scruffy guys, some of whom just aren’t shaving and others who are trying (with varying degrees of success) to grow a moustache, odds are it’s November. Two men’s cancer awareness campaigns are in full swing this month. Each have a similar […]
Taking your site Mobile
As more people are moving to tablets for daily web surfing and ditching their old flip phone for a smart phone, it makes sense that more and more of your website traffic is going to be “mobile”. Depending on the site, mobile traffic can be well over 50% of all your traffic. With this major […]
Google’s new algorithm, Hummingbird.
Google recently announced a big update to their search engine ranking algorithm. Unlike the hundreds of small updates of the past, this is being touted as a brand new algorithm called “Hummingbird“. We haven’t seen such a big change to how Google works since 2001. While the new version still tries to show search results […]
Is SEO Dead? No, but it’s changing. I recap
A recent post by searchengineland.com covered the latest thinking on the often uttered words “SEO is Dead”. I’ll try to recap and give you my thoughts. 1. No, SEO is not dead. You still need your site set up the right way, and to do the basics like have keyword rich title-tags and well written […]