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Going Public Like Demand Media

The recent trend has been for online businesses to launch IPOs. These have for the most part, been successful. As a business person, there comes a time when you need to weigh the benefits of going public with its drawbacks and find out if that might be the best option for you and your business. .... More »

Around The Web: SEO News You May Have Missed week of 3-19-2011

Here are some news stories that I thought you would be interested in reading. These are all related to Search Engine Optimization. Enjoy. 2011: Year Of Organic Web Some industry experts have been speculating that keyword rich domain names may be the next thing Google targets with its latest algori.... More »

Facebook Likes Can Help Gain Traffic

Facebook has already made many changes that will help businesses and that will help to drive traffic where businesses need it to go. Facebook's popular Like button social plugin has had three new updates. It seems that Facebook is moving fast to implement these changes and benefit businesses even mo.... More »

Starbucks' New Portal Caters to Mobile Users

Starbucks takes "listening to the customer" to a whole new level with the design of its soon-to-be released Web landing portal. Starbucks Digital Network will be optimized with mobile devices in mind primarily, rather than traditional web browsers. The majority of connections to Starbucks' free.... More »

Trend Watching at YouTube

Knowing how hard it can be for a user to navigate through 35 hours of video uploaded each minute, the YouTube people recently launched YouTube Trends. YouTube Trends is a way for the site to feature videos that have been shared repeatedly and are on other sites – trending videos. This operate.... More »

Social media is here to stay and is a great way to build your business. Some of the most popular online activities are blogs and social networks like Facebook, so you should harness the power of social media in order to keep your business growing.

Search engine optimization (SEO) strategies work great with social media. Considering the fact that there are more Facebook users than the combined populations of Japan, Germany, and the United States – a whopping 500 million users – you can easily see how you could possibly reach hundreds more potential customers than you could without using social media.

Blogs are also great tools for reaching new customers. Technorati reports that 900,000 blog posts are averaged by 133 million blogs every day. This means that using blogs, with SEO techniques that help bring more traffic to your blog, can actually turn you into a power player. If people read your blog and then link to it from other sites, you will get that much traffic. This can really help your Google rankings and it will help keep the positives on top while burying anything negative about your business.

Another useful method to build your business online has proven to be Youtube. Streaming video advertisements are very effective, and can easily be targeted to potential customers. This year alone, Youtube expects to have 375 million unique visitors.

Social media continues to grow and thanks to sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, it is simple for any business who knows how to properly use SEO strategies to become a powerful force online. This method of marketing works great for online stores, but can also help increase the customers that brick-and-mortar businesses see because it allows them to reach out to many more people.

Social media sites are going to be around for a long time and the possibilities that this presents to your business are endless. As social media grows, your business can grow as well. This is especially true if you pay attention to what your customers have to say on your social media profiles. Pay attention and you will be able to see exactly what they are looking for and this gives you an inside view to how your customers think.