http://www.awebguy.com SEO, Internet Marketing, and Website Development Blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:01:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Marketing Authority Comes With Science"][/caption] Are you reaching your market with a voice of authority or are you at the mercy of a market that is not what you hoped for? I find that many companies fail to bring a sense of authority to their marketing. It is ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/03/marketing-authority-how-to-create-authority-in-your-market/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" height="200" caption="aWebGuy.com Grade 99.6"][/caption] Blog authors love comments so much that they may lose focus of other important measures of the value of their work. If you are a blogger stuck in the destructive thought pattern that your blog is less important or less heard without comments, ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/03/bloggers-love-comments-but-sometimes-no-comment-means-youre-right/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="248" caption="Blog Tools for Non-bloggers and Bloggers"][/caption] Whether you have a blog of your own or just read blogs, these are tools to help you to become more efficient and have a better look at the information that is important to you. The tools I will outline here are ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/03/blogging-tools-for-bloggers-and-non-bloggers/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Blogging Improves Intelligence"][/caption] It may sound obvious to you that blogging improves intelligence. After all, if you are using your brain more, it will get stronger. What is not so obvious are the many ways it can make you smarter. Blogging can increase your business intelligence, expand ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/03/blogging-improves-intelligence-here-is-proof/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Push Your Marketing Go Button!"][/caption]People dream up a lot of excuses to postpone positive action in their business. In decades of serving clients with marketing services, I must have heard them all. I want to distill a bit of that for you here, and hopefully boost ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/03/push-your-marketing-go-button/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="SEO and Potato Chip Vertical Marketing"][/caption]Here are some delicious tater chips for your enjoyment. Many SEO / Internet marketing and non-SEO people alike took notice of my recent article on how to sell SEO (and compare SEO). It is a pretty important topic for anybody hoping ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/03/how-to-market-seo-and-vertical-internet-marketing/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Google Knows The Dubeshag"][/caption] Polarizing an audience does not mean that you are telling them to go away or that you do not appreciate them. When you polarize your audience, you set yourself apart from the crowd and you often gain respect. If somebody does not respect ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/polarize-your-audience-and-stop-making-everybody-happy/ Eureka Springs, Arkansas is a lovely little tourist destination ... blah blah FAIL! Do they wonder why people make fun of Arkansas, or do they even hear it? Maybe they just figure people make fun of every state that way. You know, like the way people make fun of all those ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/eureka-springs-tourism-fail-arkansas-style/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="SEO is Like Planting a Seedling"][/caption] Here are answers to some of the most pressing questions about SEO that are asked of SEO professionals. I am not ranking these questions in the order of urgency or frequency, but these are some of the most common things I ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/11-common-seo-questions/ Is there such a thing as natural ability in marketing? Some talents seem to come from birth, but like developing any talent, it takes time and hard work. Talent comes with a cost. Marketing Talent Comes With a Cost There is a hidden cost to marketing talent that is often difficult to ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/where-does-marketing-talent-come-from/ [caption id="attachment_1837" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Backlink search on Yahoo! for awebguy.com"][/caption] Backlinks are massively important to SEO because they reflect a consensus that your Website is either great, or it is not. Most people know that it is important to have a lot of links pointing back to their site, and some ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/seo-backlinks-why-most-seo-fail-at-link-building/ A man locked in a steel box for 30 days with cameras showing his every move to the Internet public will give away 30k GBP / 50k USD if you can find him. He does not even know where he is, but he is given periodic clues to help you ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/man-in-box-social-media-genius-or-insanity/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Is This Transparency?"][/caption]Decorum is defined by Wikipedia as "Appropriate social behavior; propriety" or "A convention of social behavior". Since it is a social topic, the standards of decorum are different depending on the social group. Yes, the people count, and what may seem completely innocent to ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/social-media-transparency-meets-business-decorum/ In a recent release by the Washington D.C. Centers for Unemployment Research, a study of unemployed Web developers revealed that over 68 percent were able to directly attribute their job loss to the widespread use of Internet Explorer. It concluded that adoption of Internet Explorer factors heavily in job loss ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/internet-explorer-creates-mass-unemployment/ That probably sounds shocking, right? Let me explain what I mean by this title. I know that it may sound a little "churchly", but it certainly is not. I do not mean that I am looking for people to kiss snakes, sacrifice animals, or participate in some strange cult rituals. A disciple ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/shove-your-followers-i-want-disciples/ Should social media be renamed to "friendship media" or does that kill the business? There is something really bitchy about social media. People tell people how to "do it right" and then a bunch of people hash it out and poke fun at the ones who "screw it up". It is ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/social-people-in-an-anti-social-world/ Who isn't tired of the "Johnny Come Lately" type of Internet marketers who put hype over substance? These are the creeps who give Internet marketing a bad name. Sadly, many people who encounter the "Johnny Come Lately" Internet marketer come to believe that Internet marketing just doesn't work. If Johnny is ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/internet-marketing-parody-with-johnny-come-lately/ I recently wrote an article titled "10 Really Good Reasons to Blog" and if the reasons blogs fail caught your eye, you should really read the one on good reasons to blog. I got to thinking about how there is another side to the coin. There are some common reasons blogs ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/5-common-reasons-blogs-fail/ You hate spam, I hate spam ... we all hate spam. Right? I spend a lot of time reading, researching, and finding out about stuff. I like knowing things. While I am reading, learning, and soaking in the glory of this Information Superhighway we have all built together, I encounter a ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/everybody-hates-spam-but/ "Why are you reading this?" This is perhaps the most important question a blogger can ask. This is not only for bloggers, but it also goes for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other social media users. You do not have to ask your readers directly, but it is the question that should be ... http://www.awebguy.com/2010/02/why-are-you-reading-this/