Tips to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence...
Article Written by: Herb Kimble Emotional intelligence is a valuable skill in business, and one every leader should seek to hone and improve. Emotional intelligence means an understanding of how your actions, words, and aura affect the business around you. Are you helping to spread positivity in the office or are your words igniting toxicity and making those around you dread the environment you’ve created? Here are some tips on improving your emotional intelligence. Practice Observing Yourself It’s difficult to be in the moment, but in our busy lifestyles it’s important to stop and have a moment of self reflection throughout the day. One helpful idea is to set a timer for a few times in your day....
Outdated SEO best practices that still work...
There is a lot of information out there on SEO practices to follow. One of the most specific are from Google itself. However, there are situations where you should ignore Googles directives and continue with those best practices. Here are a few those: Image Alt Text Google is increasingly using machine learning to identify the content of images when crawling pages. The recognition is still not as good as it could be but represents a big shift from the days when images without alt text was impossible to crawl. However, regardless of this advance in image scanning, there are still many images that machine learning cannot identify or will categorize incorrectly. Avoid all these issues by continuing to...
Attract visitors to your website with inbound marketing...
Article Written by : Web Marketing Tutorials Inbound marketing is now the proven marketing method for the internet and smartphone age. The old model involved buying ads, looking for leads, buying bursts from email lists etc. The new model involves creating content that brings to customer to your company and product. Here is how to attract visitors to your website using inbound marketing: The first step is content creation. The easiest way for any organization to get started is to start a blog. The content needs to be high quality. Using careful analysis, identify the needs and questions of prospective customers. The content should answer those questions comprehensively. Prospective customers will use search of some sort when looking...
Three areas that deliver results in e-commerce SEO...
When it comes to optimizing an e-commerce site, the larger the site in terms of products, the harder it gets to implement most of the basic SEO tactics. Here are some tips for large e-commerce sites that do not have the time of the bandwidth to work on to optimizing at the page level. Crawl health The most important consideration is how well your site performs in indexation. No other SEO tactics will matter if the search engine crawler cannot find your page. The single easiest method to find out the scale of the problem is to look at the 5xx errors in the Google Search Console. Then, check the XML sitemap and make sure that it is...
Using Xenu to Scan and Fix Link Issues...
Whether they realize it or not, most websites have a lot of broken links. These links are both internal and external. It is important for both user experience and seo reasons that these broken links need to be identified and fixed. In addition there has to be a mechanism in place to regularly find and fix these broken links. This is where the Xenu link sleuth app comes in. A handy windows app that will scan your entire website and check for both internal and external links. It will then flag any broken links in its report. The scan itself can take sometime, with larger sites taking much longer, but the report will highlight any link related issues...