How To Use Your Online Reviews To Get Into New Revenue Streams For Your Business By now we all know online reviews are a necessity for a local business.  Your reputation and public ratings are an instant edification of your business and show potential customers what they can expect if they patronize you.  If you are getting good reviews and have a sizable amount of reviews, you can leverage what we call "review clout" and expand your business into new revenue streams.  In this episode, we talk about how to find the related niches for your business, where your review clout can quickly get you new business and dominate the competition! YOU'LL LEARN Getting reviews is always very important for your business Ask customers face to face for reviews to get as many as possible Use automation like ReviewLead to capture even more reviews for your business Once you have high review count and high review rating you can leverage it for new revenue streams Find niches that you can serve that have low competition Look for competitors in the map pack that have [...]

How To Optimize Your Website Images For Faster Page Speed and SEO Improvements Images and graphics are an important part of any website, landing page, or sales page.  Images help tell your story, showcase your brand, or clarify an example.  As the adage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words!  In this episode, we will cover some of the basic things you should be doing to optimize the images that you use on your web site.  You can get your pages to load faster, and you can take advantage of some very important SEO benefits with image optimization.  Take a listen and hopefully, you will learn a new trick or two! YOU'LL LEARN Google can tell if you are using stock photography or not Google Vision AI can determine an image object, relevancy, and topical associations Use your own original photos and graphics whenever possible on your web pages Optimize your images for proper size Optimize your images for maximum loading speed Take advantage of alt tags and file name to benefit your SEO efforts Here is the transcription from [...]

Basic Best Practices For How To Target Keywords On Your Website Optimizing a page for a keyword; it's a topic that comes up weekly here at our agency. There are many elements that go into successful SEO and web page optimization. That said, if you're not doing the basics in relation to the keyword you are targeting, the rest is tough sledding. In this episode, we'll walk through the basic block and tackle what you should focus on how to optimize a web page for a keyword or phrase. YOU'LL LEARN To have a successfully optimized page, you must not skip the basics of keyword targeting Getting your keyword into the URL of the page is great if you can do it Be sure to incorporate your keyword phrases into your headings Develop the page content on purpose with the keyword and related phases in mind Adding images with file names and Alt text that uses your keyword is ideal To be targeting the keyword, you must be mentioning the keyword on the page Here is the transcription from Episode 47 How To Optimize Your Web Page For [...]

Develop A Content Strategy For Your Website Which You Can Easily Delegate Content is king!  This phrase is virtually beaten to death in the marketing world nowadays.  But, it's true.  At the end of the day, content is what Google serves up, and content is what we need to produce to be found in Google.  Producing content can be very intense, overwhelming, and time-consuming.  Be smart about it, and develop a website content strategy that you can not only execute yourself, but one that you can also delegate internally, or externally to talented experts! YOU'LL LEARN You must do keyword research to identify the proper phrases to target and incorporate into your content Write pages that answer common questions your customers are asking When you type pages, use the tone of talking to the customer directly Determine the frequency you can stick to for how often to put out new content Determine the size of the page (how many words needed) depending on the market and niche you are in Use in-sourcing to delegate content creation to people on your team Use outsourcing to hire freelancers or specialists to help [...]