Marketing Your Business Online

10% Off SEO Packages for Shopify Build a Business Contestants

By: John Somerton News, Offers

Shopify and Tim Ferriss have announced an amazing contest aimed at catalyzing would be online entrepreneurs into action.

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Technorati Tags: 4 Hour Work Week, Contests, four hour work week, seo, Shopify, Shopify SEO, Tim Ferriss

How Website Structure and Information Architecture Is Critical to SEO Success

By: John Somerton Search Engine Optimization

A well balanced website structure, logical information architecture, and clean URLs make your website more appealing to both search engines and visitors by ensuring your content is laid out and accessible in a logical and intelligible way.

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Technorati Tags: cms, information architecture, seo, URLs, website structure, WordPress

Duplicate Content - How It Hurts SEO And Tips on Avoiding It

By: John Somerton Search Engine Optimization

Over the past few years there has been much talk about content spamming and duplicate content penalties. In fact not that long ago a malicious webmaster could essentially scrape the content from another site, claim it as their own, and begin ranking for those pages - even over and above the original site! Aside from the obvious copyright violations, they were also effectively stealing business from those honest and unsuspecting website owners.

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Technorati Tags: Bing, duplicate content, Google, seo, Yahoo!

SEO CMS - How to Choose an SEO Friendly CMS

By: John Somerton Search Engine Optimization

Although the interrelationship between SEO and CMS is probably one of the most complicated topics when it comes to web design mistakes that can hurt your search engine optimization efforts, it is also one of the most important things to get right upfront.

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Technorati Tags: cms, Drupal, Expression Engine, Joomla, ModX, seo, WordPress

How to Know What to Say on Twitter

By: John Somerton Social Media Marketing

Twitter PR Strategy

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If, as an organization, you find yourself wanting to engage an audience through blogging and micro-blogging social media outlets like Twitter, this chart from Ogilvy PR Worldwide should help get you started.

Usually when an organization struggles to answer the question “What is it, exactly, that we’ll say?”, the root of the problem can be traced back to a lack of a coherent communications strategy that matches the medium (social media) and the tool (Twitter).

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