How much is a #1 Google Ranking worth to your business? (That’s a rhetorical question by the way)
Sure, you know SEO (search engine optimization) is important, but do you know how to effectively do SEO?
Well, we know someone who does. And we thought him to be the perfect candidate to help us kick off our new bi-weekly(ish) podcast (but we’re not actually calling it a podcast, we’re calling it a Radio show). That special guest is Internet Anthropologist and SEO Ninja, Jim Marks from Virtual Results.
In this episode, Jim Marks and I discuss:
- What SEO is and why it matters to your business
- The two pitfalls you need to avoid for having a website that ranks well in search engines
- Why WordPress will help your site rank straight out of the box
- The secret recipe to finding the right keywords to help you get more customers in a hurry via search
- How to use Google’s Keyword Tool to effectively SEO your posts
- How to tweak your site to avoid duplicate content
…and more.
Hit the flash player below to listen now:
[podcast]http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-97558/TS-479605.mp3[/podcast]
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Loved the show! Lots of information for a newbie like me. You two touched on this a little, but I am concerned, now that we have the blog up and running, that our website may be irrelevant. Thoughts anyone…Is a blog enough or should you have a website also?
Awesome, happy to hear it! We’ll have the show uploaded on iTunes shortly and we have some more great discussion with other thought leaders and experts comin’ up.
In the meantime, very glad to hear you liked it!
As for your website, here’s my take:
– If you’re website ranks well (on page one of Google), keep it. If it’s performing well, you certainly don’t want to do anything to it.
– If you’re website is awesomerealty.com I’d add the blog in the following fashion: awesomerealty.com/blog or blog.awesomerealty.com. This way, it’s all set up on the same domain – that’s how we did it for the Diverse Solutions website & corporate blog.
– If your site isn’t ranking all that well, then yes, I’d consider using your blog to replace the site all-together. I’ve seen several folks achieve better placement and ranking through their blogs alone.
That’s my take anyway…
Loved the show! Lots of information for a newbie like me. You two touched on this a little, but I am concerned, now that we have the blog up and running, that our website may be irrelevant. Thoughts anyone…Is a blog enough or should you have a website also?
Great job Ricardo. Listened to the whole program!
Thanks Stephanie! Have some fun interviews lined up on more things WordPress 🙂
“How to tweak your site to avoid duplicate content”…..what would be a good plugin for duplicate content?
Right google position is very important for more business. All business person looks for better sell.
Thanks For the sharing SEO Strategies.
Thanks For the sharing SEO Strategies.