Does everybody know what a blog is?

I will get into a definition of what it is, like I said, I’m not going to get technical on you, but I want to keep it as simple as possible about what a blog is. It is a huge topic. You could probably spend three days just doing a talk on blogs. There’s a lot of technical data involved, search engines and RSS feeds and Keywords and Social Networking and Web 2.0… All these things are associated with blogs. If you want to know any of that stuff, talk to this fella right here. Doug (Lampi), he’s a technical guru – that’s his field, he know’s all about how to make your blog.

I’m also not going to get into any debate with anybody about which is better, wordpress or blogger, and I know there’s another couple other ones out there. I use blogger. I’m familiar with it and it works fine for what I want it to do.

Ok. I’m going to try to make my little conversation so that your blog will become effective, as apposed to just sayin’ “put this widget over here, put that picture over there”… just how to promote some of your stuff

The Internet Is Changing

The Internet Is Changing and most of us have web pages. The web pages started out as a static brochure. They didn’t change very often. So what happened is somebody would go on your website, then they go on your website a month later – it’s the same thing, a month later it’s the same thing, a month later… a year later… it’s the same thing, it’s the same pictures – nothing was changing. It’s like you had the guy your brochure and he just keeps pulling it out of the cupboard and keeps looking at it.

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I’ll bet you’ve heard this saying before:

“If all else fails, read the directions.”

You really shouldn’t be driving a car with this attitude – and, well, – I should have known, it’s also the wrong attitude to have when approaching massive updates to websites!

This picture represents what I did to one of my web sites.

My Garage Door Is Open

I’ve put the ‘crashed website’ on the hoist and opened the garage door so you can follow along this weekend as I re-enter all my data, manually transfering from one database to another.

Why all the extra work?

The benefits of this website upgrade are far reaching, and the long-term marketing benefits certainly make an extra weekend of data entry well worth the time.

Adding RSS

Now including RSS Feeds from several points in our Business Directories, CanadianFishingBook.com can multiply the spread of your content, while at the same time, creating dynamic links back to your listings.

This provides more places where the search engine spiders can find your new content and also increases the relivancy of your main site, thus helping to boost your rankings in the search engines.

Ok – time to put the coffee on.

Top online marketers are using the Social Media Networks to gain top search engine placements.

How can this apply to Tourism Marketing?

Top Rankings in Google for the Keyword prases related to Tourism Marketing are just easily manipulated using Social Media as YOUR keyword phrases.

Not only does one gain the benefits of connecting to a community of people, building more friends, fans and followers, but the Social Media sites have become very powerful search engine players.

Today I’m taking the phrase “Tourism Marketing” through the wringer, if you will.

I’m conducting an obvious experiment.  If I can take over many placements in the top of the search engines for the phrase “Tourism Marketing” – then I can do the same for your phrases, and for your business.

Remember, I’m competing against the best online marketing companies for some great real-estate…  I’ll report back in a few days to see how I rank for seaches on “Tourism Marketing“. 

Quetico Internet Marketing is your Online Traffic Specialist

Douglas Lampi provides Internet Marketing insight into more that just top Search Engine Rankings. Today, visitors should be coming to your site through many differnet sources – and your business is at risk if your main source of traffic is from Google.

An Online Traffic Specialist must have broad knowledge and actual experience publishing in all the various media formats in order to benefit from visitor sources like

video sharing sites,
podcast sharing sites,
photo sharing sites
news feeds,
blogging sites,
social bookmarking,
social networking and
special interest groups,
from joint venture partnerships,
from purchased advertising sources like PPC and interstitials,
from Blog commenting,
from article writting – as well as
from link trades and
gaining consistent top search engine rankings.

In the new world of Web 2.0 – your ideal traffic footprint should include dozens of referral sources.  Including bringing Offline sources to view your online messages.

Your Online Traffic Specialist can help you
Achieve Internet Marketing Diversification!

How to find a good Northwestern Ontario Web Design

Searching the Internet for Northwestern Ontario Web Design is a great start!

If you found us in the top page of Google, Yahoo or Bing, then you can trust that we can get your website to the top of the search engines too.

Are you ready to start blogging but your website doesn’t include one? Are you on Facebook and Twitter, but don’t know what to do with them?

Quetico Internet Marketing can help!

Northwestern Ontario Web Design

Quetico Internet Marketing provides Case Studies of our Northwestern Ontario Web Design and Social Media Strategies for businesses, organizations and entrepreneurs, including

• Tourism Lodges
• Artists and Entrepreneurs
• Realtor’s Office
• Forestry Organizations
• Local Newspaper
• Politicians
• Non-Profit Organizations

We can help you build an effective business website that includes it’s own blog and Social Media.

We only use state-of-the-art technology to provide fresh content for your website visitors, including Weather, pictures, videos or News feeds from your locality in Northwestern Ontario.

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