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Website Marketing Blog
Welcome to the Website Marketing Blog from BizBudding! We try really hard to create original, valuable content that can help you get started blogging for your business and grow your blog, your traffic, and your revenue. We hope you enjoy your visit, and be sure to use the comments to share your thoughts with us.
How Mai Theme Helps You Rank in Google
How Mai Theme for WordPress has brought my blog back from the brink, to the point where I am getting first page and even #1 Google Rankings.
How Monetizing with Ads Can Coexist with Selling Your Own Products
Yes, monetizing with ads CAN coexist with selling your own products and services or with affiliate promotions. Here's how!
Why You Should Monetize With Ads
Monetizing with advertising can be an amazing way to add a revenue stream to your website with very little effort and super low risk.
Why Website Publishing Is the Best Business or Side Gig to Start
Starting a website publishing business is the best option, especially as a side gig for if you're busy and short of precious time! Here's why
Recovering from Google’s Helpful Content Update
What is this Google's "September Helpful Content Update", how do you recover, and why would Google do this to their publishers?
26 Biggest WordPress SEO Mistakes Publishers Make and How to Solve Them
WordPress SEO mistakes are sadly common. Here are the biggest mistakes that we see bloggers and publishers make, and how to fix them.
How to Detect ChatGPT and Humanize Your AI-Assisted Writing
Blog automation such as ChatGPT are increasingly popular for content creation but how can you use AI and still rank and convert to sales?
Why Website Marketing Is Important
Why website marketing is important can differ depending on your site or organization, but website marketing is always important!
Growing Confidence for Bloggers
Do you wish you had more confidence as a blogger? Try these tips to be more successful in your blogging and in business.
Genesis Framework SEO Settings and How to Use Them
The Genesis Framework for WordPress comes with a lot of SEO settings and customizations that impact your SEO directly or indirectly, some of which are not entirely clear to a user who has not seen them before. Let’s make sure you get the most out of these SEO settings! What is SEO? SEO stands for …
30 Blog Post Ideas for Small Businesses
Stuck on blog post ideas for your small business website? Here are 30 ideas to help your audience and bring more consistency to your blogging schedule so you can get more organic traffic.
WordPress Themes for SEO: How Templates Impact Ranking in Search Engines
WordPress Themes have a profound impact on your SEO, but many website publishers trust that all WordPress Theme vendors have made their themes SEO-friendly. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is affected by so many factors, from content quality to SEO keyword research, to backlinks to readability, it is difficult to know what changes have had the …
SEO Keyword Reports: Search Engine Optimization Reporting Done Right
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a key component of website marketing, and your SEO Keyword Reports are a crucial element of success.
Website Marketing: 10 Ways to Use Your Website as a Marketing Tool
Website marketing is essential if you want your business to succeed. Not being found online is like your business does not exist at all.
Topical Authority and Going Off-Topic in SEO
How topically focused does your site need to be to do well in Google rankings? Does going off-topic harm your "Topical Authority" and SEO (search engine optimization)?
The Wrong Way to Start Blogging
Why do some bloggers have so much growth and respect while others fail no matter how hard they work?
Announcing Mai Homestead Theme for WordPress
Announcing Mai Homestead theme for WordPress, the Best Homesteading Site Template for Farming Websites!
What to Check When Reviewing Your Website
In this tutorial, we look at what you need to learn and what to check when reviewing a website. Auditing SEO in six different areas will help you determine your site’s health and make improvements so it’s performing at peak efficiency.
Marketing Funnels 101 (AKA Why You Need Your Own Website)
Marketing funnels are a crucial part of your marketing strategy because, when they work well, they fit seamlessly into your most-wanted potential customer's customer journey.
Website Planning Step 4: How to Create a Work With Me or Services Page (With Examples & Templates)
This post walks you through 6 questions to answer on your services page as well as what kind of content to include, and shows examples real services pages, highlights the best website templates to use, and shares a full-page block pattern you can use to build your own services page.
Website Planning Step 3: How to Create an About Page (With Examples & Template!)
Learn what an about page is really about, what it should look like and include, take a look at some examples, and grab a free page template.
Website Planning Step 2: Copywriting for Your Target Audience
In order to write compelling copy for your website that resonates, you need to understand who you are speaking to. In this post, we focus on how to identify your target audience based on their characteristics, problems, desires, and goals.
Website Planning Step 1: Website Strategy
A successful website begins with website planning. Use this guide to create your website strategy—define your goals, structure, pages, and blog design.
How to Promote a Podcast—15 Ways to Get More Listeners
Learn how to promote your podcast, reach more people, and get more listeners using these 15 effective podcast marketing strategies.
Increase Organic Traffic & Ranking by Updating Old Blog Posts for SEO
This post reviews the process of updating old blog posts for SEO, including how to identify posts to update, researching what to add to to your posts, and updating and tracking your content.
How to Build an Opt-in Page and What It Should Include
This post reviews what visitors want to learn from your offer opt-in page, what to include on your page, and how to build it quickly and easily using block patterns and templates.
Mai Theme Starter Websites Help You Launch Your Website Fast
Mai Theme starter websites include everything you need to start a new website or give an existing website a bold new design. Learn more here!
Where to Put Testimonials on Your Website (WordPress)
Try adding testimonials on your website in these 10 places (with examples) to increase trust, credibility, conversions.
How to Build a Testimonials Page
Learn why you need a testimonials page, what content you need for it, and how to create the page—including how Mai Testimonials simplifies the process. Plus, get patterns and a landing page template to fast track your page creation.
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Website for a Small Business
Learn about the cost-related pitfalls of starting a small business website as well as what it costs to build a website with Mai Theme and Mai Solution.
Why Small Businesses Need a Website
Learn the 10 reasons why small businesses need a website and how you can avoid the common pitfalls associated with getting started.
How to Turn One Blog Post Into Three Social Media Posts
Leverage your social media presence to build brand awareness, drive traffic to your website, and attract new customers and clients without spending tons of time figuring our what to say in your social media posts.
The Difference Between Blocks, Patterns, Layouts, and Templates
Blocks, patterns, layouts, and website templates...what is the difference between all of these components, and how do they work together flawlessly with Mai to help people create and launch a website quickly? Find out here.
11 Photography Blog Ideas
Try these photography blog ideas to answer your visitors questions and position you as an authority ready to guide them to their desired end goal.
How to Highlight Your Favorite Things & Recommended Products on Your Blog
Highlight recommended products you love to help your visitors, build trust, and even increase conversion rates on your affiliate products. Learn how!
What Are Blog Archive Pages & Why Do They Matter for SEO?
Learn what archive pages are, how to customize them, and what content to put on your blog archives to optimize them for search and visitors.
20 Block Patterns That Are Perfect for a Website About Page
A remarkable about page can help build expertise, authority, and trust with its visitors. Get recommendations of what to include on your about page, plus the 20 best block patterns for an about page, to make designing yours quick and easy.
What Pages Should a Website Have
Learn about the important pages you should have on your WordPress website to showcase your experience, establish credibility, and gain visitor trust.
How to Overcome Sales Objections on Your Website
With a bit of research, observation, and communication, you can create high-converting sales pages that overcome your audience's sales objections. Learn how!