How can SEO help you get more out of your website? Simple: landing pages. SEO is search engine optimization - which you can achieve just from including keywords and phrases that people are going to search on a daily basis. This is one great way to use SEO in order to draw in more traffic to your website. By using keywords in your title and the content on the landing page, you can draw more traffic and rank higher on search engines as well. 

Recently Facebook changed how the Facebook Business Pages are laid out. This is called the new Timeline layout. If you don't know what the Facebook Timeline is, just login and check out your organization's Facebook page. It has changed as of March 31st. The timeline layout allows you to have a very large "cover image" at the top of your Facebook page. It can contain text messages and branding, but not a sales pitch per their rules.

Everyday our Thrive Y team talks about how to use digital marketing on the web to grow membership. Today's conversation is about how to compete against the shopping plaza gyms and glamor workout facilities that are eroding membership with low price and trial offers. These facilities are popping up all over the competitive landscape daily.

Building a strong, engaging website is a difficult task to tackle. The Internet provides thousands upon thousands of websites within a specific industry or topic to an individual. Thrive specializes in YMCA websites and members of the Thrive team have researched hundreds of sites and come up with the top eight features that every site should have. How are you going to get your website to stand out? The 8 Must-Have Features for any YMCA Website whitepaper provided by Thrive explains the key elements a YMCA should have on their website.