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Mobile SEO Matters in 2015

Mobile SEO (search engine optimization) requires that you pay attention to your website’s responsiveness to screen sizes of all viewing devices.

More and more websites are viewed on smaller devices from tablets to smart phones.

When was the last time you looked at how your website looks on a smart phone?

If you are like the vast majority of business owners, you haven’t taken the time and really have no idea how your prospects and customers are seeing your business.

Google has recently been sending out notices and warnings to webmasters who have mobile friendly deficiencies. But, only to those people or businesses that have a Google Webmaster account.

If you don’t have a Webmaster account with Google, your site may be in jeopardy and Google has no way of telling you the website may not appear on mobile device search engines. That means, lost business and visibility.

Mobile SEO Meets Search Engine Ranking

SEO PowerSuite recently published this article:

Is mobile-friendliness affecting Google ranking yet?

No doubt, Google is deeply invested in motivating webmasters to step up their mobile optimization efforts.

Google now labels mobile-optimized sites “mobile-friendly” in mobile SERPs

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“Mobile-friendly” sites get a slight ranking boost (Google is believed to be testing this now).

Google said they were ready to downgrade sites mis-configured for smartphones.

So, why wait? With all these signals coming straight from Google, it’s best to get a mobile strategy now — and stay ahead of the curve in the future!

Mobile Responsiveness And Google SEO Facts

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Luckily, Google has provided a free tool to allow you to check the status of your website to Google’s mobile friendly demands.

To check you website simply go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ and type in your website’s URL.

If your website is mobile friendly – You will see a congratulatory notice plus a image of how your website looks on a smart phone.

Non-Mobile Friendly Website Will Hurt Your SEO

How To Make Your Website Mobile Friendly

If you have a webmaster, make sure you talk with them about fixing those negative mobile SEO factors resulting from a failed Google Bot failed mobile friendly test.

If you DO NOT HAVE a webmaster, contact us immediately here, or call us at 866-443-1629 and we can fix it for you.

Mobile friendly websites will not only rank higher on the mobile search engines (there is a separate mobile search engine) due to these mobile SEO improvements you apply to your site.

We already showed you that Google will place a “mobile-friendly” label on your listing that appears in mobile SERPs. This means that very soon Google will desire to show only responsive websites on the mobile search engine listings.

For your website to be eligible for this “mobile-friendly” label it has to meet these criteria; as detected by the Googlebot:

Your site avoids software not common on mobile, like Flash. The majority of mobile browsers do not render content that uses Flash. Here’s what you could use instead. You use text that’s readable without zooming. First, configure a viewport to make sure fonts are scaled as expected across various devices. Once you’ve done that, implement the additional recommendations regarding fonts on this page. Your page sizes content to the screen so users don’t have to scroll horizontally. Your page sizes content to the screen so users don’t have to scroll horizontally. Create content that flows in the viewpoint so that your visitors don’t have to scroll horizontally to see the entire content. You can do this by sizing content to viewpoint. You place links far enough apart to aid tapping. Avoid cramming too many touch elements into one page segment or making them too small. Google recommends a minimum tap target size of roughly 7mm, or 48 CSS pixels on a site with a properly-set mobile viewport.

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Your 2015 SEO Needs Authority Content

Authority Content in 2015

Your 2015 SEO strategy needs to include authority content, and it needs to be the focal point of your SEO efforts.

In 2014 it became increasingly clear that Google still views content as the #1 factor in their SEO measurement.

Those websites that consistently focused on writing original quality content coupled with a healthy sprinkling of LSI keywords around a main keyword avoided the animal named Google penalties.

Brett Relander of Entreprenuer Magazine stated.

It is a little-known secret that Google and other search engines are making a shift from traditional search engine optimization (SEO) to a focus on quality and authoritative content. While it is still important to optimize your meta data and remain on top of relevant keywords, it can no longer be denied that when it comes to generating organic search results, quality content with a strong focus on authority is now leading the pack.

Content that is heavy in SEO is no longer the best method for bringing in the traffic you seek.

2015 SEO Will Require Authority Content

Brett goes on to state…

Yesterday’s rules are gone. Today, marketers must shift their focus toward the creation of relevant and newsworthy content. That means developing a solid understanding of one’s target market to know precisely which type of content can best be leveraged to the right audience.

One of the easiest way to create authority content is to write article or posts that are non-promotional and 100% focused on the reader; not you.

That is a lot harder than it sounds.

Business people want to get instant results when they take the time and effort or pay someone money to write the post or article.

It’s a natural reaction. But your reader is looking to solve a problem they have, not solve your need of wanting a sale.

Solve your reader’s problem and they will then solve your need.

A great way is to start building your online status as an expert and online authority in your field throughout your entire 2015 SEO efforts.

Brett says it perfectly in his Entrepreneur article.

Authoritative content not only helps to drive more organic search traffic but also facilitates in gaining trust. When visitors see your content and are able to learn more about you, they will feel as though they are developing a relationship with you. They learn to trust you. As a good marketer knows, it is always easier to make a sale when the consumer trusts you.

SEO Backlinking In 2015 Is Changing For The Good

When looking at SEO experts to help you rank your website, take a good look at their strategy. If it is still loaded with old backlink strategies focused on “unnatural” links then move on to another.

Keyword rich links from external sites on the internet is considered unnatural by Google and now Bing.

All your keyword rich links should come from internal on-site linking. This method the search engines view as natural while also assisting with making navigation easier on your website.

These are what search engines view “natural” links to your site:

Your website name

Your website’s URL

Text such as “read more”, “click here”, “read this”, etc.

So, your 2015 SEO task is to make the effort to become the expert by writing authoritative content for your website and all your social media pages.

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7 local SEO blunders that can be easily avoided.

Lets face it, local business owners have a ton of things on their to do list each day. It can be incredibly easy to overlook or not be aware of many of the things you need to do for your online presence just to keep up with all the changes going on with Google and the other marketing channels.

So with the goal of doing all we can to prevent having our local search rankings drop out of sight, we’ve assembled 7 easy to make local SEO mistakes to stay away from. Here’s hoping you do.

No local content for your readers - If you are serving particular locale, it might be good if it looked like you knew that. Even if you have several locations, including local and, if at all possible, fresh content regularly is an excellent way to get some Google love.

A poor or missing keyword strategy - This is comparable to not having directions for a long journey you are leaving on. You need to know which keywords you would like to rank for, and what your audience is searching for. This can only be done through some effective keyword research.

Lack of, or not enough reviews - This is an extremely important aspect of your local SEO, as it provides you with treasured social proof so necessary for visitors. Don’t be shy about asking some of your satisfied customers for these, as they will often be happy to help.

Varying NAP information - The data you put on all your social media and sites needs to be consistent, with regards to names, addresses and phone numbers. (or other contact info) This is also extremely important for ranking in Google.

Not using videos for local keywords – Videos are often a great tool for ranking easily in YouTube and Google for local keywords. You don’t need to go all Spielberg either; just a basic video that is well-optimized can do the job.

Forgetting about social media - This is not time to leave out your social media accounts. Make it simple for readers to share and otherwise help spread your content to all their social media contacts as well.

Not taking mobile seriously – Mobile search is booming, and if you aren’t optimized for mobile, you could be missing out on as much as 48 percent of the local search audience. Invest the time to optimize your mobile site.

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Your whole goal of having a website is for local consumers to find it when they are searching for your services or products.

If they can’t find you, they can’t purchase from you.

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How to Use Social Media Ads to Reach Your Goals

As a local small business owner have you ever wondered how to use social media ads to reach your goals?

Like the idea of using social media to contact an enormous audience, but simply aren’t sure how you can make it happen? Developing a social media presence that is vibrant and popular takes time and effort, however, reaching a massive audience of highly targeted people on social media can be done using paid advertising known as social media ads on these networks.

It could take you months of effort trying to create or find an audience and even then, it may elude you. Then again, you can access one in a matter of minutes with Facebook Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Twitter and to a smaller degree Tumblr, Vine, Pinterest and YouTube. Each of these present you with a unique audience, so it’s smart to plan your social media ads carefully in conjunction with your target demographics.

What Are The Benefits of Using Paid Social Media Ads?

There are several benefits to using social media advertising. Let’s have a short look at a handful of them.

Incredible targeting tools - It’s quite simple to target incredibly small segments of your audience using highly relevant ads.

Immense audiences - Your message in front of millions of people fast.

Opportunities for cheap ads - In contrast to Google Adwords, social media ad platforms are usually far less expensive.

Fast results - Your ads could be up in minutes. Setup and approval times are short.

Suggestions For Maximizing Performance With Social Media Ads

Test relentlessly - This can help improve CTR as well as lower costs. Test images, colors, copy punctuation: it all matters! A single percentage improvement in performance can be the difference between success and failure!

Target carefully - The beauty of social ads is your power to target minutely. Don’t waste it! Get granular in your targeting.

Tie in a sound content marketing strategy together with your social ads - Having great content to not only present but follow us is essential if you don’t want to pay for followers that rapidly abandon you for greener pastures.

Tracking is vital! - Most of these platforms incorporate some sort of tracking to help you, but make sure you use the best solution you can, and it may vary for various platforms.

Try retargeting - To put it simply, retargeting works. It may look a little bit creepy to have your ads stalking customers around the Web, but numbers don’t lie.

Cheap ads, immense reach and easy implementation. What’s not to like about social media ads?

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Easy Ways to Use Social Media to Improve Your Email Marketing

Below are our 3 Easy Ways to Use Social Media to Improve Your Email Marketing

Social media is an excellent way to reach a lot of people with your messages that you might not yet have established a relationship with.

One way to to accomplish this in much less time than it might normally take is to incorporate your social media channels as part of your email marketing campaigns.

This lets you cast your net to a much larger audience, and build your email lists easily and with some regularity. Let’s take a look at a few of the ways to use social media to increase your email subscribers.

When you blend email and social media you present a stronger communications message, one that’s more engaging and more visible. Email and social media, when used together, can mean the difference between a business whose message blends into the background, and one whose message is actively sought after by its clients and supporters.

3 Easy Ways To Use Social Media To Boost Your Email Marketing

Promote your emails on your social media channels - The best way to get more people to look at your emails is to let your subscribers know on social media that you have a new email or newsletter they need to check out, and to look for it! Post a message on your social media sites such as “Keep an eye out for our newsletter going out today. We’d love to know what you think!” Know that Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ will all cut your content after around 300 characters, then display a link to read more. Therefore you’ll want to make sure you get your most attractive copy in near the beginning, along with a call to action.

Enable and exhort your subscribers to share your content - To make this easy you’ll want to set up your email marketing template to prominently display social sharing buttons on your emails, and while you’re at it make sure to add a link that encourages your readers to connect with you on your own social media channels. This simple tweak will permit your readers to share your best content to their own social networks, and potentially show your wares to a vast new audience who don’t know you!

What types of content get shared the most? - Typically tips, lists and cool videos or infographics are the most shared items. Don’t kill them with overly sales hyped promotions right away, as you are unknown to them. Instead, supply your best content, and focus on engagement. This gives your email content the best opportunity to be shared way outside the limits of your email subscriber list!

The key is to effectively use all your communications channels; particularly email and social media networks to reach customers and prospects. source

We hope you liked these 3 easy ways to use social media to improve your email marketing efforts.

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Using Social Media In 2014

Start Quick To Using Social Media in 2014

You just can’t escape it: there’s that nagging truth haunting you as you go about marketing your local business on the Web. Simply speaking, it’s the fear that you simply aren’t doing enough with social media.

Who can blame you? It shifts just about daily, and without having a plan or roadmap it’s easy to get lost in all the minutiae. Nonetheless, we’re just now starting to see the tremendous power of connecting through social media. The reach is unrivaled, and the possibilities are endless.

That doesn’t change the reality that social media is a monstrous opportunity, and one that can’t be brushed aside. That said, let’s take a look at 4 ways we can step up our social media campaigns in 2014.

4 Tips on How To Rock Using Social Media in 2014!

Embrace Google+ - Say what you like about Google+, but the truth is that it offers several benefits that other social media platforms can only dream about. It might not have the numbers that Facebook sports, but the ease of indexing, SEO, YouTube connections with Hangouts and commenting, as well as a host of other Google services make this a serious business decision.

Get serious and social with video - It’s very good to churn out a bunch of videos, but what would be better is to make 2014 the year you effectively market them via your social channels. Building your YouTube channel is a fantastic way to explode your traffic!

Decide on which social networks to plunder! - Whether you want to employ Facebook and LinkedIn, Twitter or Instagram, Pinterest or YouTube, or your own combination of these, simply decide on the ones that have the most potential for your business and get on with it.

Be committed and consistent - You can have the most attractive Facebook page in the world, but if you aren’t actively engaging and developing a community there, it is irrelevant. Get out of the habit of treating social media as a poor stepchild and start making the most of the platforms where everyone is hanging out right now! You’ll be very glad you did!

Google Plus Is A Key Social Media to Use in 2014

Uninformed marketing professionals and local business owners have long considered Google+ to be the ugly stepchild of social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter, largely dismissing the growing platform as a waste of time.

Even though Google+ is a relatively new player in the social media game, it has a constantly evolving platform combined with unique features and important SEO capabilities that must not be overlooked.

In fact, if your business has 100 followers with active engagement, your Google search engine results position can improve by 14 spots.

Google+ has experienced unprecedented growth since its launch. Marketing professionals and business owners who ignore its potential and leave its wealth of resources untapped will undoubtedly find themselves falling behind in the ever-changing landscape of social media. source

Do you have any Google+ tips?

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Video Marketing Tips

Video Marketing Tips for Your Local Small Business

You’ve heard all the statistics as to why your business must have a presence on YouTube, but perhaps you are unsure as to how to make that happen in a consistent, meaningful way.

Creating an effective video marketing strategy takes some thought and care. It’s not just a matter of slapping up the current company picnic video shot from your smartphone onto YouTube and wanting it to do miracles for you.

Today’s successes in the video marketing arena are there because they had a plan, and they followed it. Let’s see how you can do that for your business!

5 Video Marketing Tips For Generating More Leads!

Use video testimonials - Consumers are far more likely to be impressed with your goods and services if it is coming from the mouth of a live customer on video. This is far more effective as social proof than any textual version could be. Not only that, the person doing the testimonial benefits as well, particularly if they are also a business person.

Helpouts are not just for Google! - If you want raving fans, create a series of helpful, how-to videos offering advice and help on topics your audience is interested in. These are terrific sales tools, even if you don’t actually offer anything for sale in them. Using these types of videos to teach and answer frequent questions will win their loyalty.

Make better product videos - It’s fine to showcase your products, but strive to make them more than merely a slick presentation accompanied by a call to action. Why not take this chance to show how your product benefits the end user, ideally in a fun and unique way.

Be sure to brand your videos - It’s a basic part of your job to ensure your brand is on the minds of your market, and there are few better ways to get that done than with video.

Make your YouTube Channel work for you - YouTube is not only the world’s 2nd biggest search engine and the largest video platform; it’s also a major league social media monster too! Getting subscriptions to your YouTube channel is an excellent way improve your reach, get more views, and more traffic. Make the time to brand your YouTube channel to match the rest of your business.

With over 6 billion hours of YouTube videos being watched every month, isn’t it time for your local business to get in on some of that action?

Let Foot Traffic Solutions help you generate more online leads using video marketing.

If you prefer to DIY; these video marketing tips will give you a good start.

Greg Cook Local marketing Educator, Advocate & Strategist helping local small business owners Connect, Engage & Inspire their online, social media and mobile customer relationships.

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Email Marketing In 2014

Why Email Marketing Has to be in Your Marketing Mix in 2014!

Every once in awhile you’ll see some sage expert come out with the pronouncement that “email marketing is dead.” And predictably, every time, email marketing is somehow soaring to never before reached heights. So what gives?

While text message marketing has grown in popularity among small business owners, email marketing is a long way from dead.

While there are changes that come down the road, (Gmail tabs, for instance) email remains a viable and profitable way to obtain leads and revenue in 2014 and beyond. Still unsure?

A few startling email statistics!

As reported by ExactTarget…

95 percent of people who buy online are email users.

Email marketing returns $44.25 for every $1 spent!

By 2017 we will have an astounding 236 million email users.

So how do you make the most of all this potential audience? Listed below are 5 tips for ramping up your email marketing.

Take time to create a plan for email marketing - Having a clear, delineated plan for marketing with email is crucial. Understand your audiences’ wants and needs, and deliver it on schedule. This takes some thought!

Optimize for mobile users - A full 43 percent of all emails are now opened on a mobile device, and it’s no longer optional to optimize fort mobile. If you hope to compete in 2014 and beyond, you need to make sure your emails can be read well and acted upon in the small screen!

Kill it with your subject lines! - Keep in mind that the only purpose for your subject line is to get them to open the email. And don’t try to get clever: grossly misleading leads to many unsubscribes. (My #1 reason!) Also, you might want to keep your subject lines short: a study by Adestra tells us that subject lines of less than 10 characters are opened some 58 percent more frequently than longer ones!

Employ visual content in your emails - Even though the words are obviously important, like it or not it’s the videos and images that your readers are excited about. Video open rates are just about double that of text-only emails and conversions are much higher too.

Expand your reach with social media - Make liberal use of social media to help people share your message. This might lead to more subscribers and a greater audience for your business.

Greg Cook Local marketing Educator, Advocate & Strategist helping local small business owners Connect, Engage & Inspire their online, social media and mobile customer relationships.

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How to Start Online Video Marketing For Your Small Business

How to start Online Video Marketing is a 2014 necessity for local small businesses.

Foot Traffic Solutions has dedicated 2014 to the year of online video marketing using YouTube and other video sharing sites. Online video commercials are the most affordable and effective way for a local small business to get online leads.

Online Video marketing has grown to be an integral piece in marketing online nowadays, and can serve several functions for your business. Although many are aware of this, understanding what types of videos to make is a needless obstacle that keeps many from utilizing this valuable and essential tool for online marketing.

Know Your Objectives Before Starting Online Video Marketing!

It’s critical to understand the reason you are making these videos from the start, so that you can enhance their chances of success in addition to save you a boatload of time and effort! Below are some ways that businesses can make use of video in their marketing.

Building your brand

Video as a product

Live and recorded Webinars and workshops

Launching videos

Sales or promotional videos

What Sort of Online Video Marketing Should I Do?

After you’ve decided how you would like to use online video marketing in your business, you need to choose what kinds of videos to produce. There are many different kinds of videos that may work for you.

Video Slideshow - An easy task to make and distribute, you just create slides in PowerPoint or Keynote (Mac) and then save them in a video format, narrating the video or adding music. You can create these in minutes.

Live videos - Also referred to as talking head videos, this has people are talking live. You can record these in any number of ways, by using a smartphone, camera, or even an iPad.

Google Hangouts - Using Hangouts is an easy solution to conduct a webinar, seminar, interviews or simple instructional or informational video. It’s super easy to use, and is uploaded straight into your YouTube account.

Screenshares - This is where you basically record your screen as you narrate your topic. Software for doing it includes Camtasia, Jing, or Snagit.

Livestreaming video - There are several services out there that can get your event live streaming on the Web.

Animated videos - Who doesn’t like animation? If you thought they were above what you can do, think again. Services like Videoscribe and Powtoon make it easy!

To See How Easy & Affordable Online Video Marketing Is, Call Us Right Now

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Online Marketing 2014

5 Ways Online Marketing Rocks in 2014

There’s precious little time left to finalize your plans for marketing in 2014, so let’s get our predictions in here in time for you to act upon them.

A few of these online marketing strategies have been around for quite a while, and then are a couple that are new to the local online marketing game.

Local small business owners will want to pay attention to the #1 online marketing strategy for 2014 as it is staged to be the blockbuster method to get more qualified leads calling your business in 2014.

We dropped mobile friendly website out of the top 5 despite it’s vital importance to getting found online when consumers are looking for your product and services.

This drop should not be construed as a lessening in it’s importance. In 2014 it has moved from being an online marketing trend to being a necessity for survival.

We’ve identified five of these trends that can make a difference in your marketing in 2104, and here they are!

YouTube Marketing - Telling your story via web video is a top-notch method to get more leads and that must be your #1 task for 2014. If you’re marketing online, this is the way you’re speaking with your prospects, so stagnant and stinky long-worded content won’t do! Besides that, studies are showing that local companies employing YouTube marketing tactics regularly get 67 percent more leads than those that don’t.

Image based Content wins the day - It’s official now: nobody likes to read. At least, they like to look more! Visually-based content will remain the most shared, and acted upon. This means not only videos, but social media outlets like Pinterest, Instagram and Slideshare that can take advantage of the fact that 65 percent of us are visual learners.

Retargeting - A trend that is rising in popularity fast, retargeting is the practice of having your ads follow customers around. I know; it sounds creepy, but it does amazing things for your brand by keeping it in front of a person who has expressed an interest in that particular search term. AdRoll and Google are the top players at this time, but many more are joining the party.

Social Signals and SEO - Although some declare that social signals carry little weight in the search algorithm thus far (like they know!) it’s certain to be poised for a greater role as we develop into a progressively more social web. This means there’s no time like the present to implement a social media initiative!

Demographic targeting in ads - You now have the capability to target your advertising with the accuracy of a smart bomb. Platforms like Facebook with their promoted posts and custom audiences make it easy to target incredibly niche markets quickly and easily. What’s more, this can be done at a fraction of the cost it’d require to advertise widely and inefficiently. This is the year targeted paid ads are on every marketer’s to do list!

Greg Cook Local marketing Educator, Advocate & Strategist helping local small business owners Connect, Engage & Inspire their online, social media and mobile customer relationships.

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What You Need to Know About Google Helpouts

Introducing Google Helpouts – How To Become A Local Authority

Most of the time when we think of Google we aren’t exactly getting warm and fuzzy all over.

Instead it’s usually just the opposite!

This time around it’s different. The new offering from the folks in Mountain View is aptly named Google Helpouts.

And we’re here to tell you, thus far we like it!

So what are Google Helpouts

Google Helpouts are video chats, performed on a timed basis either for free or paid, using the same video chat platform that is used by Google Hangouts. The main difference is that, these are one on one video chats intended to offer specific assistance to those who request it. You will find at this time eight major categories in which people can discover someone to help them, and the choices are extremely wide-ranging. One provider might be offering technical computer help, another guitar lessons and yet another home electrical advice. The possibilities are endless. All providers are okayed by Google, and are rated by their users.

Can a small business benefit from Google Helpouts?

This is where you can get inventive. Google Helpouts looks like it’s the perfect place to introduce new products, services, or otherwise familiarize prospective customers with your business. You can offer low-cost or free consults to people in your area who are unfamiliar with you, or even offer a tutorial on the way to do something that your business makes a specialty of. Picture platform as an easy way to introduce your business and to start building the trust essential to build long-term client relationships.

How do you kick start Google Helpouts?

You’ll need to request an invitation, and make sure you have the technical equipment needed. (You more than likely already do!) You’ll also need to download the Helpouts plugin from Google. Once you are approved it’s just a matter of going out there and helping people, and watch as your brand grows in reputation and sales.

Greg Cook Local marketing Educator, Advocate & Strategist helping local small business owners Connect, Engage & Inspire their online, social media and mobile customer relationships.

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