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rgenerator — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:05:50 GMT

I once read an e-book from an internet marketing company that said they created 50 different pages for a local business website. The idea was to have a targeted page for each town in the coverage area to increase search engine rankings.

I thought this was a great idea, so I went to work on it immediately.
I mapped out the local towns and created a couple of pages, but soon
abandoned the project because it was boring, time-consuming and I was
creating ‘hidden pages’ with ‘duplicate content.’

But after converting my wife’s property management website to WordPress, I had an alternate strategy.

*With +WordPress +I am able to add a new blog post for
each town in our coverage area. This creates a new page for the search
engines to index, with keyword rich URLs.* The content of each post includes zip codes, keywords and links.

This improves our search engine rankings by adding new, relevant content to the site.
For smaller, more obscure searches, we are able to dominate the
rankings. If there is a certain area that we want to focus on to get
more leads, we can simply write more posts about those particular
areas.

In our case we created +Property Management Perspective +which is a series of local reports on the towns and neighborhoods in our coverage area. We give quality insider information on the area and current rental market.

This strategy can be applied to any type of local business. The posts should not be hard to write since you already know the area and can give some expert advice.

Re: Building a Business Website in Wordpress

rgenerator — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:47:39 GMT

the seo benefits are strong, look for good themes with clean code like 'Headway' or 'FrugalTheme 3.0', your search rankings will improve and you will move ahead of the competition that had their sites built in 1998 and havent changed them since.

Re: Starting a temporary staffing agency

ladyc125 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:40:40 GMT

Thank You very much staffing.Pro. This helps because had not considered the items such as insurance and testing materials. This really helps to point me in the right direction.

Thank You very much for your inputs,
Lady C

Re: Starting a temporary staffing agency

ladyc125 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:37:58 GMT

Thank you,
Your suggestion is something to consider.

Re: I want to start a Clothing Line!!!!

godfather0682 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:41:09 GMT

Hey, Thanks for the advice and feedback... What type of business plan should I develope and what do you mean by scoring ?

Re: I always wanted to be an Entrepreneur!

LUCKIEST — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:28:47 GMT

I want to be an Entrepreneur, , Welcome

Who are you?? Go to Members page and share some info

If I I wanted to be an entrepreneur, I would develop a business plan and visit SCORE.
SCORE is FREE

Re: Voice Broadcasting, reach 10,000 for $190.00

Marcus — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:48:01 GMT

Mike, I'm doing this now, but your price seems WAAAAY too expensive! I signed up about 6 months ago with a company out of los angeles. I signed up as a "Reseller" and i'm paying $0.007 cents a call (less than a penny a call). That means your 10,000 calls would have cost $70 not $190, are you charging per call? or per Minute? Either way, seems your price is a bit high. They are providing me the Database, and doing the scrubbing too. What is the difference between your service and theirs? The site is www.messagecommunications.com if you are going to be cheaper, I'll use your service but it doesn't seem like you are.

Marcus

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Re: Anyone interested in sharing Twitter techniques?

GenerosityBry — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:06:26 GMT

Yes,
Twitter is really all about sharing.
It is always best to be perceived as being Generous rather than being loathed as "being on the take"
some points most people overlook are
1) it's not about numbers, having unrelated and untargeted followers can be a problem. Block and report any spammers following you. spam followers are one of the main ways other spam profiles find and automated follow you.

2) auto dm's thanking someone for following you, then sharing a link to your website or offer is lame. if you cant respond back in person with something relavent to the person who followed you, just dont reply back at all.

3)repeating your tweets is a good idea, as long as they are interesting, empowering, educational or inspiring. it helps people who missed the message enjoy what you share.

4) use localtweeps, hubspot twitter grader, or twellow to find people local to you.

5) have your high traffic, high commerce and high converson SEO keywords in mind when you tweet but dont SELL the terms, just tweet interesting, educational, empowering or inspiring things using those words. other people can find you using keyword searches ( and you can find people already talking about what you're already an expert in by using the same keyword searches )

6) search.twitter.com for a term and select the RSS feed option to send the whole stream to your google reader. then you can review, follow and engage likeminded folks.

7) I made a mindmap where I share these principles and more to help demystify the social media mindset. feel free to check it out on my blog. I share it as my gift.
http://generositymarketing.com/mom-and-pop-mindset-clarifies-social-media-strategy/
I hope this helps
thanks and take care
Bry
I am @blissfulfun or
@Social_Media_Wi on twitter

Re: To Community Members: We'd love your feedback.

artforart — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:30:12 GMT

I know its a small thing and probably automatic but I want to thank the SBOCTeam for the email up-date on previously read, commented, or posted issues, articles, stories, or forums. I don't know about everyone else or why they are on-line, or what they are looking for, but sooner or later something is going to hit us all right here on Small Business online; but I forget; forgive me but I'm human and I need to be reminded now and then, and SBOCTeam emails can often do just that. I know my artistic non-profit is not a hot item in small business agenda, but I have been able to identify with many other members and I have listened to our professionals, it all adds up to an advantage, and an advantage goes along way in today's market. I do not get to spend allot of time on-line but when I do, I want it to pay off! Just clicking out with a better attitude than you had when you came on line is good; but going away with a great idea you had forgotten, is even better. Thanks SBOCTeam, and thanks for looking for even better ways to serve the Community Members. artforart