Small Business SEM

I suppose this was inevitable: Flickr has finally put the no-follow tag on some of the outbound links that users can place on the photo-sharing service.
Here’s a look at the most recent photo on my personal photo stream, which includes a link to my personal blog, where I wrote about the photo in more [...]

A lot of great photographers are scared to put their photos online because it’s so easy for other people to steal their work. I totally understand that. I’m hardly a great photographer, and I don’t want people stealing my photos, either! But I do want them to use my photos.
In the past year or [...]

s_jenkins, who I assume is a new SBS reader, left his/her first comment late last night and included a couple questions that I think deserve more attention than a reply in that 14-month-old thread.
The questions were in reference to my old post, Linkbaiting for Small Businesses (or, What I Learned Last Week), in which I [...]

Here’s a quick and free SEO tip: If you’re looking for some buzz right now, go green.
Here’s why: In the last couple weeks, I’ve come upon two small businesses (neither are clients) that are getting some combination of media attention, online buzz, inbound links, and natural search traffic simply because they’ve created products or [...]

First, a tip of the cap to Jenn and Robert and everyone at Search Engine Guide, whose blog just became even more valuable this week with the enabling of comments. Sweet!
Now, on to the links….
My wife and I started a home-based business back in 2003, and we closed the business within 8 months. Talk about [...]

So many good posts/articles this week … I was gonna do one of these a few nights ago, but never got to it.
Anything that helps me think more creatively about something that can be incredibly monotonous is a Good Thing. That’s probably why I liked Tom Clitchlow’s guest post on the Link Building Blog: 5 [...]

…Well, have you ever seen the links? Have you ever seen the links?…
I found this one via a Google news alert, of all things: On the Small Biz Survival blog, Becky McCray writes How to use video to promote your small business. Good stuff!
For the ultra-small retailer, Danielle writes at Small Business Branding about A [...]

“…I don’t care if Monday’s black / Tuesday, Wednesday, heart attack / Thursday, never looking back…”
Jenn Laycock addresses an issue I’ve seen a lot — small businesses waiting too long to bring SEO into the web development/marketing mix. SEO needs to be part of the planning process from Day One, people. Jenn explains it quite [...]