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Is This Simple Mistake Killing Your Business?

Story One I discovered a new place to eat recently. I drove by it all the time, but never stopped. One day, I saw them shooting the TV show, Diners, Drive ins and Dives there. Guy and his red Camaro … Continue reading →

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How To Make A Ton Of Money

Written by Conrad Walton

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Customer Acquisition Through Blogs is Directly Related to Frequency of Posts

Written by Conrad Walton

HubSpot recently published a study about marketing. One of the things they found was that companies who blog more often are more likely to acquire customers. Read that again slowly. “Blog more often” correlates with “more customers”. An underutilized blog … Continue reading →

Posted in web site build | Tagged Better Marketing, blog, Blogs, Customer Acquisition, Direct Correlation, Inbound Links, Links Pages, marketing, Small Businesses, Website Visitors | Leave a comment

Ten With Tess – An Interview On SEO Success

Written by Conrad Walton

Last week, I wrote an article, Do You Love To Talk? SEO for Comment Virgins, urging people to leave comments on other people’s blogs to increase their own SEO. Among the 7 people who followed directions and commented on the … Continue reading →

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Etsy :: Fixing the low views on Etsy (it's up to you)

Written by Conrad Walton

I started reading the Etsy forums to see what people are talking about there that might apply to my products here. One area popped out at me and that’s the problem with getting traffic to your Etsy site. There are … Continue reading →

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New Promotion Page for Free SEO Book

Written by Conrad Walton

I updated the landing page for the FREE SEO Book and revised the promotion in the sidebar. I asked for my landing page to be reviewed and got some great feedback. They pointed out that the story of how I … Continue reading →

Posted in SEO | Tagged Free Seo, Google, Landing Page, marketing, New Image, Point Of View, Search Engines, Seo Book, Sidebar, Survivor, Typos, Wikipedia | 1 Comment

Get an Evergreen for Your Blog This Holiday Season

Written by Conrad Walton

If you want more traffic to your web site, you need to write posts that last a long time, that people can point at and come back to, over and over again. These kinds of posts should be about what … Continue reading →

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KICKAPOO JOY JUICE – THE ORIGINAL DOGPATCH RECIPE, Soda Pop Review

Written by Conrad Walton

When I was about in Jr. High, which is what we called Middle School back then, I have a vague memory of going to a county fair or someplace like that, where there was a lot hustle and bustle. I … Continue reading →

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You Are Not Your User

Written by Conrad Walton

It’s really easy to believe that everyone else is like you. They aren’t. Everyone tends to do it. It takes a conscious effort to not do it. I mean, you are a rational person. You believe everything you believe and … Continue reading →

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Church Marketing Sucks: It's Twitter Time for Your Church

Written by Conrad Walton

Really? Is it really time for Twitter? They have clearly captured the platform and will be the way to the future of microblogging or whatever you want to call it, but I’m just not sure that the numbers are there … Continue reading →

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