In its latest development, Google has launched support for the schema.org markup for organization logos. With the introduction of schema.org markup, you can easily connect your website with an iconic image. This will be of great help for webmasters and website owners who want to specify which image to be displayed in Google search results.

The new feature is made possible with the implementation of schema.org Organization markup, and by using this mark-up you can inform Google’s algorithm regarding the location of your organization logo. By connecting your website with an iconic image, your business branding, trust and reputation is sure to get uplift. Google has also provided the syntax of the Markup code in its official blog.

If you are the owner of a website http://www.example.com, and have your organization logo at http://www.example.com/logo.png, then you can link you website to your organization logo using the below piece of code in your home page.

<div itemscope itemtype=”http://schema.org/Organization”>
  <a itemprop=”url” href=”http://www.example.com/”>Home</a>
  <img itemprop=”logo” src=”http://www.example.com/logo.png” />
</div>

By using the above code, you are informing Google that the image at http://www.example.com/logo.png is the organization’s logo image and will also be used in Google’s search results. By using this image we are really eliminating the chances of irrelevant images in Google search results as your website’s logo will be given higher priority by Google’s search algorithm.

If you are really serious about displaying your company logo in the search results, then you should indeed try the above piece of code and see how it works.

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Define your budget
First of all you need to plan your budget. Find out how much you can afford and then stay within the limits of your budget. Also, make sure to add how much you’re paying your employees and for what duration they are working on your online marketing strategies.

Use Social Media
Social media is one of the best online marketing strategies. You can sign up for free. Social media is a place where you have access to millions of people and it helps you in identifying your target market.

Be regular in posting
Being consistent in posting on your Facebook page and Twitter account will help you to connect with existing customers and will help you locate new ones as well. Of course, you need to create informative and engaging content to post. If people find your posts interesting, they are more likely to share them with other potential customers. Add your personal experiences, tips and ideas in your content. This makes your content unique and promotes your business. Also, unique content makes people feel that you are an expert in your niche.

Get endorsed by a local celebrity
Instead of dreaming to have a superstar to endorse your product, try seeking out a local personality. Local personalities are people your newspaper is publishing about. They could be a teacher or a senior citizen who works for the welfare of society. Since they’re in your locality, it’s not that difficult to trace them out and contact by phone or e-mail.

Create a LinkedIn group
Not only LinkedIn groups are free to sign up for, it allows you to contribute your professional network a fresh, interesting information resource while at the same time gain traffic to your site and boost sales. But don’t use the platform to overdo anything.

Get published on niche blogs
Sometimes it may be hard to get on to the cover page of a leading magazine, but still you can create marketing opportunities by getting published on a popular niche blog. Look for popular blogs in this niche then contact the blog owner and explain him/her of how you’d like to add more value to their readers. You can try these:

• You can offer some samples of your product or service to the owner of the website, so that they can distribute them as gifts to their audience. This is more effective than a product review, which only offers information.

• Give out your ideas for the blog posts you’d like to write and give reason for how they would be useful for their readers.

• Ask them for an interview to your site. This might please the website owner to promote your content since it influences his or her business.

Create videos for You Tube
You Tube has more than 800 million visitors a month and is an effective platform for online marketing business. To reap its benefits, start posting as many videos of your product as possible or sharing thoughts.

However, you need to consider the following points while creating a video:

• A keyword-researched title
• A well-defined editorial message
• A call to action

If you can invest on cameras, lighting equipment and editing software, the camera embedded in your smartphone should capture online video as and when needed. For the editing part, the iMovie apps on your Mac will help you with this. You can also try online software for free or seek the help of an experienced editor from sites such as Fiverr.com for a reasonable price.

Write an e-book on a specific topic to your industry
You no longer need to depend on a publishing company or require a huge investment to get your book distributed. Leading publishing sites like Amazon will let you upload a digital book for free. Make sure to add your website links in the first few pages of your book, since many e-book publishing websites allow their customers to view the first few pages of an e-book before buying.

About The Author: Diana is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, traveling and reading books. She contributes on Hydroxycut.

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If you are able to chalk out a tangible kind of online marketing strategies, you are bound to reap rich dividends for your business. The best part is that you could reach out to your target audience in a most cost effective fashion. Internet marketing is nothing but a perfect blend of creative and technical strategies, which help you to overshadow your competitors, provided you embark with effective online marketing strategies. Considering the dynamics attached to online marketing, the power found in it is really incredible. Now, let’s check the kind of power the online marketing seems to carry in the following paragraphs.

Address millions of people via online marketing
People using the web daily are millions and trillions and not just limited to developed nations but all across the world. They use the web for a number of reasons, but of late with things like e-commerce, internet has become a perfect place of buying and selling. Considering the huge amount of information present over the web, more and more people access it for their buying decision. So, any business venture having its presence over the web can really turn the table in terms of customer conversion and business revenue with effective online marketing strategies. The target audience present over the web is simply huge in number, which could be reached out with effective online marketing strategy. That’s the power of online marketing, which is hard to enjoy with other traditional format of marketing.

Engage your potential customers easily
Whether you use a PPC campaign or run a content marketing via your business blog in your online marketing efforts, you have better chance to reach out to your prospects and current clients and engage them effectively for your business interest. The reasons are simple since you are able to cater the content pertaining to your products or services and people are there to read such content if they are willing to buy products related to your niche. As more and more consumers are relying over accessing the information via the web hence reaching out to such people (target audience) is simple over the internet. Once you reach out your potential customers, you have countless ways to engage them and convert. That’s another power of online marketing, which other formats fail to cater.

Simple and cost effective marketing solution
Imagine the amount of money you need to put in your traditional marketing methods like hoardings, TV ads and print media ads. Plus the process involved in this often sound complex and time taking at least when you compare these with the online marketing strategies. Over the web, you could finish this job in just few words or lines, which is simply hard to imagine with the traditional formats of marketing. Here you are not required to shoot an expensive ad by hiring models and air the same with big money, however, with any simple ad made in text and graphics could turn the table for your business. The maximum thing you need would be a graphic designer to design effective artwork for your online marketing content or some low cost professionals. Plus the impact you can create with the online marketing ads could go for a long provided you end up creating quality and effective strategies. Hence, in this way, you have another vital power of online marketing strategy.

You get higher return on investment (ROI)
Another power the online marketing strategy has is that it gives you much higher return on investment (ROI) as compared to the traditional marketing methods. The ads placed over print media or TV and radio could require huge amount of investment, which simply produce less amount of ROI. You have the option of spending few hundred dollars to thousand dollars over your online marketing efforts, the choice is yours but the kind of return you would get from the invested money would be huge. In fact, online marketing has been proving out to be a boon for small and medium size business as it is not only cost effective but also result oriented.

Final word
The power of online marketing seems to be infinite, right from giving you cost effective marketing solutions, higher return on investment, global reach to simple and quick results it has many things, which others fail to render. At the same time it can play like a magic stick in allowing your brand to be recognized in your niche market. All you need to know is the best ways of using these strategies and embark with your desired results.

About The Author: Diana is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, traveling and reading books. She contributes on ReputationChanger.com Reviews.

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If you are looking to have a thriving Facebook community and vision yourself as a community manager—par excellence, you might just love these tips:

Know your company’s voice
Branding on social media is rather a necessity. However, what you must know is: only when your voice is in sync with the brands philosophy, will you be able to get the first step right.

Answer these: Are you the serious sort or a littlelike to add humor to your posts? Do you just talk about business or interesting stuff that excites you? Is stirring-up things your forte, or remaining neutral is what defines you?

If you are a single person handling the page, you’ll find it easier to maintain a consistent voice. But, for multiple employees handling the account, it is important you device a ‘voice for the company’ and give a list of do’s and don’ts to all your community administrators and managers.

Impress visually
A very important part of Facebook is visual marketing. This simply means to draw attention using photos, screenshots, graphs and of course—infographics. Even if interesting visuals and your brand do not go hand in hand, you can consider these:

-    Screenshot of a demonstration
-    Image with a quote about your niche
-    Info-graphic with statistics about your industry
-    Behind the scene photos

Know the rules
Of course! Make sure you read and understand each of the policies stated by Facebook. Pages can be shut down without a warning in case you cross the line. Besides, keep yourself updated with the latest terms as they change frequently. For example: a few months ago, Facebook altered its cover photo policy.It maintained the 20% text limitation, but did away with rules about featuring a call to action or purchase information in cover photos.

Know the industry
Now, there are a lot of us who manage someone else’s page. What becomes important here is to know the industry. It won’t go too well with the followers if you use terminology that does not reflect with the brand they know of.

Recognize members
It’s important to make each member feel like a part of your community. Know them, interact occasionally, and at times, mention them.

Be calm to negative posts
Even if you get an angry post, be calm and take it in your stride. Respond to the comment with an effort to ‘maintain the relationship’. You must also know that if such a situation has cropped-up, there must be some reason behind the upset Facebook fan. Try to address their concerns and offer solutions. Remember, even if the fan is being unreasonable, you need keep your tone gracious. Snarky comments, or replying in the same vein as an angry fan can backfire horribly. Some of the top brands like Nestle have learnt this lesson the hard way.

Have fun
Have a live Q&A chat or do a live stream; your followers would love you! When you have such interactive sessions, you get to know each other well, which is only necessary. So, the next time you launch a product, conduct a live Q&A session, letting your fans ask relevant questions. Doing so, you will be able to publicize your product a great deal.
Besides, be a great resource for your community and give them an experience. Think, and keep evolving.

About The Author: Vishal is the founder of Appsquare, an app development company in Australia that creates innovative apps, provides part funding for selected app ideas and also helps app developers get funding through its network of Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors.

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If you are trying to run a business, then running a blog is an absolute must. Although many people don’t realise this, blogging can be highly beneficial, when it comes to marketing. However, you will only reap the rewards from your blog if you go about it in the right way. Here are four tips that will help you to successfully use your blog to market your business.

1.    Ensure You Use SEO Throughout
If you want to successfully use your blog to market your business, then SEO is an absolute must. Search Engine Optimisation is marketing technique that will drive traffic to your website, without it being obvious. Of course, the first thing that you are going to need to do is to learn the basics of SEO. You will then need to practice good keyword research. You need to make sure that your SEO campaign has the maximum effect, and the only way that you can do this is by getting it right.

2. Comment On Similar Blogs
This is something that many blog owners don’t think about. You need to drum up as much interest as possible, when it comes to your blog. Start off by doing a search for blogs that are similar to yours. Once you have done this, you can go through the blogs and comment on them. This will gain exposure for your blog, and drive traffic your way. However, you will need to make sure that your comments are relevant and not spam or this will be a waste of time.

3. Post Your Link On Your Social Networks
If you have built up a good following on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and LinkedIn, then you will need to make sure that you post the link to your blog on your social network pages. By doing this, you can get your existing followers to subscribe. However, you will need to make sure that you post updates on your social network pages so that your followers see the link.

4. Offer Exclusive Promotions To Subscribers
If you want to drive maximum traffic from your social network pages to your blog, then the best thing that you can do is to offer exclusive promotions to all those who subscribe to your blog. This will rapidly build your list of subscribers, as well as gain more business as well. However, make sure that your promotions can be followed through, or your campaign will have the opposite effect.

These four tips will certainly help you, when it comes to using your blog to market your business. There is a lot more to it, but this is definitely a good starting point. Try them out and see what works for you.

Author Bio: Hello, I’m Zoe, and I’m a writer from the UK who enjoys writing about PPI, blogging, earning online, and health care among many other things.

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Inbound marketing of a company is not confined to a single activity, rather is spread across various online marketing plans, strategies and activities. Inbound marketing team is indeed the backbone of any company who is serious about improving its business on the internet and hence majority of such companies are investing a good amount of time and money for their inbound marketing activities.

Here are some of the common and important objectives of Inbound Marketing.

1) Traffic Generation
As always, traffic generation is the main objective of any online marketing activity and here also it is the same with inbound marketing. A company’s inbound marketing activities are purely aimed at driving relevant traffic to the websites and its online assets, and this traffic generally has higher chances of getting converted into leads. All the inbound marketing activities are aimed at attracting traffic and if you are not getting traffic to your website after investing in your inbound marketing activities, then you can utterly say that your website and its marketing is a total failure. So irrespective of any niche, the primary goal of an inbound marketing campaign is to get visitors land on the page or make the website visible for the visitors. These visitors might be potential customers and hence if you are doing your inbound marketing in the proper way, then number of potential customers will also increase, which in turn enhances the overall business of the website.

2) Lead Capturing
Let us take a scenario where you are a shop owner and is participating in a big exhibition to showcase the products that you are selling in a shop. A lot of visitors might be visiting the exhibition and you expect to get the contact details of a good number of visitors so that you can contact and promote your products later.  There might also be customers who may buy it from the exhibition stall itself. Same is the case with inbound marketing where you need to capture the contact details of interested customers for contacting later. The main objective of any inbound marketing is to capture potential leads using any of the inbound marketing strategies.

3) Lead Conversion
We will go back to the previous point where you have got enough enquiries in hand as a result of your successful participation in the exhibition. Now you have to sort out those leads / enquiries and start following up them and try to convert them into sales.  This is the most ultimate steps and you will have to plan your strategies carefully so as to make a better conversion rate. In the case of inbound marketing also you need to plan your inbound marketing activities in a better way so as majority of your leads are converted. It may not be always possible to get a 100% conversion rate, but with a better inbound marketing plan, you can atleast come closer to that number.

4) Convert Customers into Repeat Higher Margin Customers
Once you got a customer, it is always a bad idea to get satisfied with the deal. Instead keep on finding out ways of reaching to your existing customers in such a way that they become part of your top services and products. Initially you might get a customer who buys any of your basic products and says good bye.. But it is your duty to follow them up and update them about your premium products so that they might also end up buying your elite products.  There are a lot of methods to convert your customers into your higher margin customers and some of the best things are marketing through various marketing channels such as emails, mobile, website and other social media websites.
This is indeed one of the major factors that can influence the growth of your online business.

5) Find Room for Continuous Improvement
Now you have generated traffic, got enough leads and also converted a good number of leads into sales. An average online business owner will always tend to relax a bit as he gets a feeling that he has done the right thing and is on the right track as far as his inbound marketing activities are considered. But the fact is that, inbound marketing is an area where you cannot dare to slow down and rather you need to be alert and keep on making continuous improvement on your inbound marketing plans. This is mainly because the inbound marketing arena is highly competitive and once you take rest, your competitor might over take and you may lose a good amount of your online customers. So always keep improving your inbound marketing campaigns by experimenting new things and other knowledge that you gather from around.

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In the real sense, you might always be in the midst of the question on how to go about implementing effective link building. One of the best way to answer this question is to simply look at link building as link earning.  In the past few years the term “link earning” is often heard many a times generally after the Panda and Penguin updates.

But, what does link earning actually imply?

Remember, each and every link should be properly earned through effective content generation which can draw the attention of more people as well as links.

But, how does one go on earning these high-class links?

Well here is a step-by-step guide that will give you a better understanding on how to earn those precious links.

1. Create a target list – Before you get started with an outreach campaign, you should be equipped with a target list of the potential websites from where you would love to receive links from. These websites could be focussed on content, relevancy or both of them. Though this is quite subjective but it should always be dependent on relevancy. There are numerous ways of finding the prospective websites.

2. Create Unique and Compelling Content – When it comes to link exchange you should always have something to exchange and this is an area where unique and persuasive content comes into act. Unique content does not refer to Copyscape passed, rather it refers to the way the topic is addressed. If you really want to earn a valuable link, you need to write on a topic that is not previously covered and at the same time serve as a useful stuff to readers. The website owners generally love unique and compelling content and it is also noted that they have a penchant for content that are fresh and not published anywhere.

3. Create an Effective Outreach Email – One of the most essential and significant feature of link building outreach is to draft a simple and professional email for the website owners (which is often overlooked). Rather that drafting the mail in the traditional way, try to make it different and interesting so that the webmasters tend to read this mail once it is delivered in their inbox.  You must always show the webmaster that you are trying to create something that is unique and valuable.

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Branding is a fairly complex business. Get it right and you will be establishing yourself as a major player in your field. Get it wrong and you will look unprofessional and careless. Here are a few ideas to help:

1. Keep it consistent
Choose your logo and corporate colours carefully, because you will need to use them on everything you’re associated with, from letterheads through to your website, any advertising and printed materials and shop fronts. Customers will start to associate your logo with your business, so keep colours and fonts the same wherever they’re used.

2. Harness new technology
Social media is where it’s at these days and this is one of the best ways of creating a buzz about your brand. Get people talking, give them incentives to like your pages, offer special discounts to those who pass the message on and others will soon follow. Of course you have to offer a good service – remember if your customers are discussing you online you want them to be saying good things!

3. Embrace the old ways
New technology is great, but there is something to be said for the tried and tested methods. People still like to see things in printed format, so don’t just do your advertising online – you will be missing out a huge chunk of your potential new client base. Look at magazine and newspaper advertising and check out any trade publications which are relevant to your business. Advertising in the right place is essential to getting the right customers on board.

4. Roll it out
Branding isn’t just a logo and corporate colours. It is the essence of your business, its ethos and what it represents. So you need a clear set of guidelines to manage everything you are sending to your customers. This includes your tone of voice – the way you write to your customers – design and photography and your advertising strap lines. Are you young and funky or traditional and classic?

5. Be part of the community
Wherever you’re based, get yourself out there, sponsoring local charities, joining in events, taking part in activities – anything you can do to get your name known is going to be good for business.

About the Author: Graham Allen is a marketing and communications expert, who specialises in branding and brand awareness. He keeps up to date with current market developments using sites such as www.qbase.net and regularly writes related blogs for a number of websites.

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Ways in which you can make money
You can make money out of blogging (especially the beginners) in different ways, which could be categorized into three sections. The first one is direct option, wherein you can leverage from options like advertising like affiliate programs and Adsense. The second category is Freelance option, which includes contracts or the working for a blog network. And third and last category is indirect options, wherein by using your blog you create credibility and fame for selling out different products, services and a number of opportunities like book deals or speaking gigs. This can lend you good money via your blogging efforts. If you are among the beginners, the first option would be the most suitable choice to make money via blogging, whereas in other two categories, you could hardly end up making money for months, as it takes time to start earning via these options.

You need skills to earn money via blogging
If you are good in your writing skills and have knack of researching and reading different things, then you could make good money via freelance writing, which is the second category of making money via blogging. Though blogging is exactly not the same thing unlike any freelance writing project, yet your writing skills can lend you good money out of it. You can easily find job from the blog network and if you have sound knowledge and experience in this skill set, you are bound to make big money out it. If you are among the novices, this is not the right category for you to make money with your blogging efforts. Usually you will take time to start making money out of this way. If you look at different SEO communities, freelance portals and blog forums, you can find opportunity of writing a blog post for 5 dollars, which is good for a start while slowly and steadily, you could master yourself in your writings and establish as a good blogger and writer to fit into this category to start making money out it.

Beginners still can make money through blogging
As a beginner, you may not fit into the third category as it takes time to establish your credibility and trust along with a good reader’s base. But once you are able to achieve this, you certainly end up making big money out of it. So if you rule out the third option, you still have options of making money through blogging right away but make sure do not just expect big money at this stage. Consider your initial months as low earning phase and till then you would be well versed with the earning options via blogging. So the only mantra you need to abide is to keep trying various options of earning through blogging with consistency and patience, you certainly can make this option the best way to earn money.

Popular ways of making money through blogging
Indeed blogging is the best way of making money regardless to the fact that you are a seasoned blogger or a novice. The most popular ways of making money through blogging include joining different advertising programs including Google AdSense wherein you get a number of PPC (pay per click) text, video ads and ad display opportunities for the blogger. You can join affiliate programs, and affiliate advertising network, Amazon Associates and Commission Junctions respectively are the most popular options for these two methods for the bloggers. The other options to make money include banner ads over your blog, sell merchandise, publish posts and reviews and lastly by being a professional blogger.

Final word
If you want to make money online, blogging could be the best platform to do so. The good thing about blogging is that if you have a knack of writing, you can end up making good money sharing your passion and hobby with your writing skills. Thus you get paid for your passion. While for others, practice and perseverance unlike any other field is the mantra of earning through blogging.

About The Author: Diana is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and reading books. She contributes to Hydroxycut.

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Checking if links are dofollow or nofollow
There are two methods of doing the same. You can begin by finding any external link inside the website that you are searching. You will then need to right click on the link and the inspect element column. The nofollow attribute inside the code will become visible. Alternatively, one can check the website source code too for these links but it might take some time.

A range of plugins and extensions for chrome and Firefox are available. You will need to visit the Chrome or Firefox web store and search the keyword ‘nofollow’. Both of these methods will do the job perfectly for you. Choose your method realize which suits the most.

Do nofollow links matter in blogging
Nofollow link matters in blogging in the form that it helps in increasing the traffic. You would be amused to know that most of the traffic gets diverted using the nofollow link. It therefore matters as the type of link diverting to your blog will help increase the overall popularity of the blog.

Let us understand this with an example. Suppose one has a website that specializes in web design niche and you might not have build backlinks for the website as you might not be wanting to use spam methods.

It might surprise you but you will notice that when Google updates PageRank for the toolbar, you might find your blog to have PR 3. All this can be possible without the regular backlinks. One can think that the blog might be having a range of good content and the same was updated on a regular basis. Though this might be true to a limited range, the fact of the matter is that nofollow links do hold a lot of value for the avid blogger.

Understand that posting comments with links in blogs that are low on quality will not do any good to your blogging venture.

Another imperative fact to consider is that nofollow links have a lot of value if the links are originating from locations at which these links get moderated and removed if the same do not add value to the bogging endeavor. Ensure that these links are permanent and worthy enough so that readers are able to read and respond to the same, even years after you have posted them. What great thought to realize than posting the links and realizing their worth,years after they have been posted.

All blogging platforms use nofollow attributes. This implies that though search engines might be viewing this as a less viable method, yet the same still holds much significance. Remember, it is only a line of code that makes the link nofollow, the search engine bots are not held back from visiting the website.

Dofollow links matter in blogging
Dofollow links matter when it comes to imperatives as page rank. The same helps helps in increasing the ranking of the site to a great extent. The effect is particularly visible when it comes to page ranking.

This eventually has its impact on search engine ranking too and the same gets improved over time. The fact of the matter is that both dofollow and nofollow matter in blogging. While through nofollow links one can drive traffic to the site, dofollow links help one to achieve higher search engine rankings.

You must realize that dofollow links hold greater value but those employing the same to realize the benefits tend to overdo things. Consider the fact that the tendency to overdo things and having many links that have same anchor text will not do any good to the popularity of your blog. Recognize the fact that you will have to do quality research before you drop links in any blogging platform. If you adopt a lethargic approach and simply drop the links in any random platform, others might follow suit and your link will lose most if not all of its relevance.

Instead, try unique methods of generating reader’s interest, be it in form of guest blogging, writing reviews or adopting other unique measures.

About The Author: Diana is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and reading books. She contributes to Hydroxycut.

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