GetRuralKansas.org Showcases Forty Rural Kansas Towns
Congratulations Kansas Sampler Foundation on the launch of GetRuralKansas.org! This website is a collaboration of 40 (and growing) small Kansas towns who together have a lot to offer visitors. I can’t...
View ArticleThree Things Rural Tourism Can Learn from Urban Travel Pros
I read Travel Daily News International almost every day, and this article recently caught my eye, “Websites have become far too complicated”. Wading through the travel market speak about “silos” and...
View ArticleNew Year’s Resolution #1 for Rural Businesses: Update that Website
It’s that New Year’s Resolution time of year. Here’s a suggestion that will increase your rural business profits this year: I resolve to update my old worn out website. Or, I resolve to stop dragging...
View ArticleWhat the Heck are Keywords and Why Should a Small Business Owner Care?
I was recently working with a small business owner, helping him to learn how to optimize his website. I suggested that his next step was to make a list of keywords to use as he updated the written...
View ArticleAre Bad Photos Wrecking Your Small Town or Local Business Website?
I’m home after two months of traveling all over the US. Often, my husband and I would use websites to plan which small town to drive through each day. I, like Andy Hayes of Travel Online Partners was...
View ArticleIs Your Small Business Website Speed Driving Customers Away?
I discovered an article in Travel Daily News titled, “The Impact of Travel Site Performance on Consumers,” which is important for any small business website. If you are hoping to reach customers to...
View ArticleThe SEO Pyramid – Climb to a Better Website
I discovered this SEO Pyramid today at SEOmoz, and wanted to immediately share it with you. Thanks goes to Rand Fishkin for creating something so simple and powerful to help us learn where to devote...
View Article8 Reasons Why a Simple Website Is Best and Content Is King
With all the options available it’s often confusing to a small local business owner who just wants a decent web presence at an affordable cost. Luckily simple is best and here’s why: 1. Simple is...
View ArticleWebsite Basics: Tell Google And Your Customer Where You Are!
Google has always tried to use geography to provide the best possible organic search results. And for the past year, they have been including those local results on the search results page! “How does...
View ArticleMobile Website or Mobile App. Which is Best for Rural Small Businesses?
I have spent the past month reading everything I could find on mobile technology and here, as promised, is an overview of what I have learned. In the past two years smartphone purchases have...
View ArticleIs Your Rural Tourism Business Website a Marketing Asset or Liability?
Remember when you bought your first computer? Most of us figured we were set for life only to discover that the whole system was obsolete in 2 years! The same can be said for your website. Sorry. That...
View ArticleMusings About SEO, WordPress and Thesis for Rural Tourism Businesses
As you might expect, I spend lots of time combing the Internet for the latest and greatest information that might be useful for rural tourism business people and towns. This weekend, one of the...
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