How to SEO Your Website to Get More Traffic
Using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to build website traffic is one of the most cost-effective Internet marketing tactics available. To help you, Google’s even created a starter guide that describes some techniques you can use to make your site rank better. But pulling off SEO tactics can sometimes be daunting if you’re not familiar with HTML, so we at Intuit have created a new service that eliminates all the complexity …
Easily Create a Professional and Customized Website with Design Templates
Intuit Websites introduces a brand new collection of website design templates that are easy to customize to reflect your brand, style and vision. We help you get up and running quickly so you can spend more time focusing on your business. Let’s take you through the process of choosing a design, selecting your website pages and customizing your website so you can see just how quick and easy it is. …
9 Tips to Get Your Readers to Comment More
Blogging can be lonely work, and comments really light up a blogger’s day. I’m sure you know the excitement of getting the notification of a new comment, and finding out whom it’s from and what they want to say. So how can you get those comments and notifications more often? Try following these 9 easy tips to write posts that are guaranteed to be covered in comments. 1. Make them …
The Best Day and Time to Blog
Starting a new blog, no matter the purpose, can leave you with a lot of questions, especially determining the perfect posting schedule. Put your mind at rest, because there is no right answer about the perfect publishing schedule, but this article will include a few tested tips and tricks to get you started on the right path. Let’s also make one thing clear: writing blog posts and publishing them are …
How Linkbait Attracts Traffic to Your Blog
The word “linkbait” is pretty logical: it’s anything on your site that encourages others to link to you, like bait encourages fish to swallow the fishhook. The best linkbait is worth its weight in gold and followed links. So how do you figure out the perfect linkbait for you? Start with these tips. Your Audience’s Interests and Needs You need to know whom you want to attract to your …
5 Things You Can Learn From Ashton Kutcher About Tweeting
With 7 million followers, it could be said that Ashton Kutcher has more social credibility on Twitter than any SEO you might be able to hire. What’s the secret of his success – and how can you work to replicate it? Even if you’re not a TV star, there are a few things you could learn about Twitter from Ashton Kutcher (or should we say @aplusk?). Here are just five …
The Top 10 Bloggers You Should Learn From
Creating a single-author blog is not a task for the faint of heart. Even just regularly contributing to a blog can be a huge undertaking. Thankfully, others have blazed a path before you, including the 10 bloggers profiled below. These bloggers include those who still write every post on their site themselves, and others who now accept guest posts or staff bloggers. However, each one started out the same way: …
Simple On-page SEO Tips
It can be intimidating to come up with link-building tactics or marketing campaigns. While those efforts are worthwhile, especially long-term, sometimes it’s nice to just make some concrete on-page changes. Tweaking your website copy doesn’t hurt your standing; it helps, because search engines reward sites for constantly-changing content. And don’t forget to keep track of your analytics – if you notice something isn’t working the way you expected, you can …
How to Get Guest Bloggers
Guest blogging is a great win-win: you get more original content for your blog, and the blogger gets exposure to a new audience and a couple high-quality, targeted backlinks. It’s not too hard to start posting guest posts – you just need to send proposals or written posts to other blogs. But what about when you want to start accepting guest posts on your own site? Here are some techniques …
Why You Should Build Loyal Readers Before You Sell Stuff Online
Some people go into blogging with the intention of making money immediately, and others start blogging because they already have a business and want it to grow. Of course, there are those people who just love what they’re writing about, and all of us have a lot to learn from them. Why? Because you need to build a loyal group of readers before you will be able to profit from …