Every day is a good day for content but Memorial Day can be a good one for many niches. I personally never try to undermine a holiday, especially one which remembers the people who died while serving our country, but you can still create content if it
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I couldn’t track him down but Malcom Reed creates content right. And, he also BBQs right! With Memorial Day upon us and me looking to build upon my great content examples page I figured it would be a great time to feature Malcom’s site, HowToBBQRight.com. Back story:
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Today a real estate broker contacted me. After decades of hard work they re-branded their company. This included a new URL. You would think that someone would set up a proper 301 redirect for her and be done with it. Nope. Does GoDaddy Domain Forwarding result in
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If you have listened to any of my ramblings over the last decade or two you will know that I am a huge fan of unique, quality content. I point it out great examples of content when I see them, I create content, and, I digest content.
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I’ve been there. I’ve owned a small business that I wanted to get in front of as many eyeballs as possible. I’ve also wondered if social media helps SEO. And, I’ve spent way too much time exploring this myself. Common questions about Social + SEO & Social
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May 19, 2015 Google and Twitter announced that Tweets will begin displaying in Google search on mobile devices. Sometimes. Within hours of the announcement I started getting the question.. “Len, why aren’t my tweets displaying in Google Mobile Search?” So, I had to check it out. I
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Yik Yak now allows users to upload images, and the Featured Peek area now allows users from all over to participate in conversations (as opposed to traditional Yak conversations where you must be geographically near where the conversation is taking place). These Peek conversations are gone after
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Less than 24 hours after our post mentioning Snapchat competing with television, news was released that Snapchat will be getting music videos. This is Snapchat’s next step into entertainment. When I was younger we had a TV channel that played music videos. Hmm, what was the name
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I have now set up several websites for multilingual content. There is a huge opportunity here that many businesses are missing out on. If you have clientele that speaks a language other than English, and you or your staff can accommodate other languages, this content needs to
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In 2012 I sold an IT firm in Raleigh North Carolina. The business was thriving. All of the customers were word of mouth who had initially found us online. I had approximately 1,400 pages of content on our website. Since then I have become a content creator.
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Today a client asked me if they needed to purchase a local directory listing service. While these may help some businesses with several locations, generally, the savvy small business owner can handle their listings themselves, or their ethical SEO person can handle them for them. In this
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Last week I had a brief affair with Snapchat. It is mostly over. Here’s what I learned. The experiment I allowed my Snaps to be public. I creatively gained 200 followers. I started snapping. I put up silly drawings and funny pictures of things that I saw,
Read more →The primary purpose of social media is to bring us together. I’ve recently seen a perfect example of social media being used for this purpose in the creation of Snapchat’s Campus MyStory that popped up at my school. It allows people from the surrounding area to submit
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Anything can be used the wrong way; the only thing that it takes for a crime to take place is desire and opportunity. Many Snapchat users feel as if they are anonymous or that only a few people will see their snaps. Making a mistake just to
Read more →Adding friends on Snapchat is a snap. But, if your existing friends aren’t posting new things for you to see, how do you connect with new Snapchat users to follow? There are millions and millions of people uploading new pictures and video every day. How do you
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May 7, 2015, trading of Yelp stock was halted after Yelp announced that they were looking into a sale of the company. Google almost bought Yelp around 5 years ago. Who is looking into buying Yelp? Will Google buy Yelp? Why Google should buy Yelp If I
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Dropbox confuses the heck out of what I call “normal” computer users. Often, when I am creating content for businesses, I ask the owner or rep I am working with to supply me with as many images as possible. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this
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A client I did some work for a year or two ago gave me a call the other day to tell me his web host had taken his site offline. A quick Google search revealed that his site was hacked. In addition, it had 11,800 landing pages
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May 2 & May 3rd, 2015 Yik Yak featured “Mayweather-Pacquiao Live!” on Peek. The fight was scheduled for May 2, 11PM ET but didn’t get started until around midnight. It was very apparent that Yik Yak users do not like Floyd Mayweather, love Manny Pacquiao, and want
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I googled Pacquiao Mayweather earlier while watching the fight on PPV. A headline read something like “The winner of Pacquiao vs. Mayweather was Meerkat & Periscope. I keep hearing about Meerkat. What exactly is the point of this software? To stream live video that you can’t record?
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