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Part 3 of 3: Conclusion of Blast From the Past

21 Top Posts Everyone Needs to Read About Online Business Development Continued… A Series by Amber Ludwig.

This 3rd post in the 3-part series concludes “Blast From the Past” week where I deliver the top insights and training pieces I’ve written since starting this website. Print them out, share then on Facebook/Twitter, or just enjoy the content!

I hope you enjoyed this short series. Sometimes with blogs, new visitors just come in and don’t look back on all the incredible information written about in the past. Bookmark these posts if you want to refer back to them anytime.

Have You Thought of Facebook as Your Opt-In List Yet?

If you’ve studied Internet Marketing at all, you’ve heard “build a list, build a list, build a list!” This is sound advice. Building a list of email addresses, people that are interested in following you – this can be your greatest online asset over time. Of course you’ll want to handle your “list” with care. Don’t spam, don’t email every day, etc etc.

Follow my logic here for a moment… People are subscribing to lists less and less. Some have asked if that burst of squeeze pages, newsletter signup forms and ethical bribes (like an eBook giveaway) are going away for good even. No, I don’t believe they are.

Tynt Insight: Auto-Adds Your URL When People Copy Your Content

It’s free. It’s easy. It’s a must.

Tynt Insight is a company I found when searching for WordPress plugins. I was specifically searching for a plugin that automatically adds your URL to the copied content a visitor snatches. (No, I’m not an affiliate, just sharing a great tool.)

I’m all for someone sharing the goods. Some are not, and for you, there are plugins that don’t allow anyone to copy your content. They do this by disabling your visitor’s ability to right click, among other things. But, I’m all about sharing the wealth so feel free to share my content.

Ian Lurie, Conversation Marketing and The On-Page SEO Cheatsheet

Today I’d like to share with you a wonderful Internet Marketing resource that I came across the other day. Ian Lurie runs a popular blog called “Conversation Marketing“.

Ian says, “After 13 years as an Internet marketer, I’ve pieced together my experiences with the technology, communications and design issues inherent in our business, and built Conversation Marketing as a rubric for good decision making.”

Ian’s writing is witty, smart and full of valuable goodies. One great goodie I found was titled, “The On-Page SEO Cheatsheet“. It’s a 2-page visual SEO guide which teaches you the top priority SEO tactics you need to learn to get ranked well in Google, Bing and other top search engines.

What is a Backlink and How to Get Lots of Them!

A backlink is basically a link to your website from another website (an inbound link). Backlinks are key to good Search Engine Optimization (SEO)! The more links you have pointing to your website, it conveys a message to Google and Bing about how important your website is. The more important your website is, the higher you rank in search engines. Another reason backlinks are key is because it opens portals for getting traffic from different avenues. If you have 50 websites linking to yours and they all get decent traffic – imagine how that could boost your visitation!

21 Tips to Improve Your Blog Website Results

Below you will find 18 tips to improve the results for your blog website. This information is brought to you directly out of a quickie eBook created titled, “57 Tips to a Better Blog”. This blogging guide is a really great training piece that can help you uncover the missing pieces to your blogging success. Below you will find 2 tips from each of the 10 categories I give tips and tools for, plus one more at the end.

Blog-Site Setup Tips:

 

A Few Top SEO, Social Media, Copywriting, Design and Internet Marketing Resources I Use

Enjoy some of my very top resources below and enjoy all that you learn from them…

The Power of Social Media

An incredible video on the powers of social media for your business! This video will blow your mind away on the powers of the Internet and how you should be using it to gain sales, clients and visitors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng

Search Engine Optimization Top Tips Combined

SEO insights from 9 top professionals and social media experts – Insights of key SEO tactics and strategies that we should be addressing in our small businesses. Very good tips you can implement right away!
http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/06/9-expert-seo-tips-for-small-businesses.html

2 Fabulous Resources: SEO Guide and Email Marketing Guide

If you have a website online, you probably know how difficult it is to get your webpages ranked well on Google, or how to get more visitation, or how to build and keep a list of email subscribers. There’s a lot that goes into maintaining your website, let alone making it better and better.

But, it’s kind of fun right? When you get blog comments, or review your Google Analytics account and see 75 visitors or more in one day. Well, today I’m going to teach you a couple goodies that should get you even more excited!

2 Great SEO Tips You Need to Know + 1 More

Between yesterday and this morning, I heard 2 great SEO tips that I can’t help but share, plus, I’m going to remind you of another.

One Great SEO Tip:

This morning, I received my daily ProBlogger email as usual and inside was a blog post called, “Optimize a Single Post On Your Blog for SEO“.

The first SEO point of 4 was to find out which of your posts are ranked in Google’s 1st page (2nd-10th position) and then go back and optimize those posts to become #1 on Google. That is a simple but obvious idea that I hadn’t thought of directly before.

New WordPress Plugin, Scribe, Takes Bloggers to New SEO Level

This morning I got my usual ProBlogger blog post email. Inside were details about a new WordPress plugin called “Scribe“, a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) evaluator and booster. After doing research and taking the Scribe plugin tour, I bought it and am testing it out as we speak.

Here’s how it works… Scribe has a killer special right now to get their highest package for only $27 per month (that’s the same price as their smallest package!). You download the plugin, then upload into your website. The beauty of this package is that you can use this plugin on Unlimited websites…Imagine the possibilities. Then, activate the plugin and start a blog post. You’ll notice a new section in your Add Post page called “Scribe Content Optimizer”. As I do certain SEO tasks, I see green checkmarks appear that I am on track to having a highly optimized blog post.