When I saw this video I asked Texas Master Gardener Stephanie Suesan Smith to share with us how she created it: Ever watch those slick videos on the SEO experts’ websites with envy? Wonder how you, as a business person, can afford such a thing? … [Read more...]
Case Study: How to Deal with a Negative Review on Google Places
This is a guest post by Stephanie Suesan Smith, an avid woodworking blogger who pays attention to advice I share. She recognized an email she received from Highland Woodworking as a real life example of the importance of reputation management for small businesses. Stephanie knows from me that negative reviews can seriously affect sales. That was very easy to see in Yahoo! Stores because they provide graphs of sales and have had public reviews for a very long time. When a negative review was … [Read more...]
What To Do If Your Content Is Stolen
Recently, I received a trackback from an adult site. The source turned out to be a link to this blog from a blog post on Gera's SweetsFoods Food Blog that had been scraped by that adult site. Although I usually ignore scrapers and do not mind some better quality aggregator sites republishing my posts with attribution, obviously we do not want to have our content appear on adult sites nor allow incoming links from them. I made a special request of Gardening Blogger Stephanie Suesan Smith to … [Read more...]
Blog Outreach: Garden Bloggers Reach Audiences Beneficial to Related Small Businesses
This is a guest post from Gardening Blogger and Master Gardener Stephanie Suesan Smith, author of “Preparing a Vegetable Garden From the Ground Up”. Stephanie is the extremely talented blogger with specialized knowledge she shares in her garden blog, photography blog and woodworking blog. Read Stephanie's interview on MurrayNewlands because she is a role model for bloggers and businesses interested in reaching her audiences. Garden Bloggers Reach a Broad Audience Garden bloggers are becoming … [Read more...]
A True Guide to Making Money with Your Blog
This is a guest post by Stephanie Suesan Smith. I am relatively new to blogging, having started seriously this spring. However, I have already been inundated with get rich quick schemes, all of which were rip-offs. Fortunately, I had mentors such as Gail from Growmap.com to steer me away from those people. She gives her expertise away for free. … [Read more...]
