Posting videos in your blog just got easy with WordPress version 2.9

Add video to blog post with wordpress 2.9

For those of you familiar with WordPress, adding a video to a post has traditionally required one if not many plugins. With WordPress 2.9, you just simply drop in the url and publish.  WordPress does the rest! Here’s a quick video showing you how to embed video in WordPress 2.9: The following picture says it [...] Read more »

Leveraging events to drive SEO traffic to your blog (Audio)

Listen or Download Upcoming events are a great opportunity for you to leverage keywords related to that event and drive SEO traffic to your blog. If you can, research an event within your niche and identify 2-3 long-tail keyword phrases that a potential reader might use to search for information on Google.  Write a few [...] Read more »

Why Would I Want My Business on Facebook? Facebook Ads

Facebook Ads Targeting

Facebook also has two unique sections that are of particular interest to businesses and organizations. One is Facebook Ads, a Pay-per-click (PPC) Advertising network that serves ads to users based on their biographical listing information. The second is Facebook Pages, a place for users to create a separate profile page for their business, organization or [...] Read more »

9 Ways to Find New Content Ideas for Your Blog, Podcast or Videos

Searching for new content ideas for your blog, podcast or videos?  I just listened to a great podcast from Jason Van Orden and here are my notes and personal comments. First, set up a capture system to catch ideas when they happen. MindMap – I use http://bubbl.us/ which is a great free online tool for [...] Read more »

Deep Links for Search Engine Optimization

It’s still shocking that many newbies don’t understand links. You don’t need to link to a lot of Web sites. You need a lot of good Web sites to link to you. And, it’s best if you can manage to get some of those links to include — in some fashion — the keywords that [...] Read more »

Posterous makes social media and content sharing simple

via posterous.com Posterous is my new favorite online publishing tool. It’s a single place to add blog posts and feed them to other networks that make up my social and professional networks. Quite simply, it makes my life easier by turning a single post into a stream of content I can share across multiple platforms. [...] Read more »

Are Some Social Media Sites Just RSS Aggregators?

Increasingly, social media web sites are becoming much more than places to keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues online. They’re becoming major hubs of information consumption, analysis and distribution as well, so it’s important to understand how this trend is playing out on some of the more popular destinations on the social web. [...] Read more »

How Web 2.0 Affects SEO Strategy

Funny to find this article from May 2007 … so many small businesses still fail to understand the very basic strategies of Internet Marketing.  Not you of course – those other guys. Some Web 2.0 content management systems, such as blogs and wikis, are primed and relatively optimal for search engine visibility straight out of [...] Read more »