This newspaper article appeared in the local newspaper in my hometown, during the last week of Black History Month 2012…. Very Nice Article!

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In this article I will attempt to explain in the very simplest terms, what Search Engine Optimization is, and why it is important.

First of all, it is never a good idea to just go out and put up a website, without giving any thought to Search Engine Optimization. A website conceived and created this way is destined to fail! The reason why I can tell you this, is because I’ve done it before. And this was a very hard lesson learned from firsthand experience!

Search Engine Optimization – or SEO – is a scientific way of saying that your site is optimized. The word optimization implies a process or a procedure you might follow to optimize your site.  read more Continue reading →

This article will offer tips to help you decide on the best place to submit your article.

For anyone new to article marketing, the first hurdle you must overcome is the pain of churning out that first 500 word masterpiece. Once your first article is written, the next step is to have it published somewhere on the internet. Now you are faced with a new and even harder decision of choosing the best place to submit your article. The choice may prove to be more difficult than you think because there are literally hundreds of directories and article marketing sites to choose from. Deciding on the best place to submit your article to can be a difficult choice to make.

Just do a search on Google for article directories, blogs or ezine publishers and these two queries will return literally hundreds of good places to submit your article to. Your main goal should be to submit your article to a site with the best page rank. But wait just a minute. Don’t be too swift to submit your article to a particular directory just because it has a high page rank. There are several other factors you should consider before deciding where to post your article.  read more Continue reading →

Teacher-turned-publisher, Charlotte Clark-Frieson, 53-year old birth mother of a new black weekly newspaper, The People’s Voice Weekly, believes that it can, claiming her publication to be one of the good things coming out of East Alabama.

With the help of a group 24 family members, friends, and supporters, a volunteer corps of writers and contributors, the weekly has been in continuous publication since July, 2005 ¯ taking East Alabama and West Georgia by storm. Continue reading →