
Nathan Blair
Posts by Nathan Blair:
So Your Industry Is Boring – Don’t Let That Keep You Out of Social Media
A few days ago, a client expressed a doubt that’s probably all too common. He said, “You guys recommend that I get more involved in social media, but I’m in the (insert boring industry here) industry. What is there to say about the (insert boring industry here) industry?”
Is social media stardom reserved only for the … Read more
Your Website Visitors Are Talking to You
Continuously improving your Web presence to increase ROI should be the goal, right? OK, but how do you get your potential customers to talk to you so you know what to improve? If you are willing to dig into a little data, you can find out how people interact with your site and where the problems … Read more
Creating a Consistent Offline to Online Branding Experience
Many companies choose to complement their search marketing campaign with traditional offline methods. For those who use direct mail, radio, TV, or magazines to drive website traffic, care must be taken to ensure the transition from offline to online be as seamless as possible.
If you have ever received a distinct marketing piece that drove you to … Read more
Convert More Leads With a Cleaner Website
A big part of marketing is putting yourself in your customer’s shoes. Business owners should likewise take a step back occasionally and look at their website from the customer’s perspective. Let’s take a look at the home pages of two websites so you will see exactly what I’m talking about.
As you look at these sites, act … Read more
SEO Grows Up, Now More Than Just Links and Tags
Many businesses don’t think SEO is difficult, and they are right. It’s not rocket science, but it does require applied strategy, testing, and a lot of patience. Faced with the choice of going all out SEO (in or out of house), or putting it into the hands of a few part-timers to cut costs, some choose … Read more
Brand Your Competitors Into Irrelevance
We, in the SEO business, usually tell our clients that a good website is made up of two things: on-page optimization and off-page optimization. On-page refers to your titles, descriptions, and so on. Off-page refers to how many links point to you, engagement in social media, and so forth. We can get your site some awesome … Read more
5 Reasons Your Customers Are Shopping Elsewhere
Let’s take the time machine way back to the good ol’ days. There once was a time when people waited. It was a magical time when folks stopped to talk on the street and books were as thick as five stacked laptops. And would you believe that we had attention spans back then? I know, it … Read more
WordPress Can Help Me With SEO?
One word changed my life forever one day back in late 2007. I was a blogger then, frustrated with a blogging platform that couldn’t satisfy my needs. Why didn’t I have simple root access to my blog, enabling me to change whatever I felt like? It was my blog, with my name emblazoned on the front … Read more
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