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SEO Education and News
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SEO for Musicians: Take Advantage Of Your Audience!
If you’re involved in any kind of creative endeavor, chances are you’re waiting to be discovered. The duty of the artist is not just to make art, but to share it with others; this goes doubly for musicians, whose opportunities for media expansion have exploded in the last several years. …
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Is Google Ignoring Your Backlinks? Webmaster Tools Can (Maybe) Help (Sometimes)
Anyone who is aware of the most basic and fundamental tenets of SEO knows as long as you’re not screwing up your site too bad (using only flash, no content on home page, etc.), backlinks will be the most important factor determining how well your site performs organically. If you …
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SEO and Public Relations: This Small, Small World Has Room For Both
In a world of fierce, undercutting, and faceless competition, Search Engine Optimization mixed with social media brings back to small businesses a much-needed breath of fresh air. It has been learned that you can’t fight big business on its own turf. Unlike the national chains that have dominated the first …
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Google Places’ Hotel Booking Feature
It’s been nearly four years since I’ve left New Orleans on any kind of leisure trip, but this weekend, I’ll be out on the road to Austin for my first “I’m an adult” vacation. Leading, for the most part, a frugal and boring existence, the task of planning a vacation …
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Optimizing Site Speed – Why Google Is Right
With the most recent algorithm update, Google made it clear that a site’s user experience is now a factor for your search ranking. Though this may be a giant leap forward for assessment of site quality, the backlash against the farmer update shows that such metrics for SERP rank might …
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Small Business SEO Basics: Rank for Your Own Name!
Have you ever searched for a business by its own name and come up empty-handed? What about searching for its own name PLUS the city it’s located in and still no luck? It happens! Google definitely makes stupid choices at times, but most of the time this happens when we …
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Why Flash Movies Don’t Help Web Marketing
The number one rule in marketing is staying current. To show that your product matters to a customer and help make the sale, you need to keep track of trends, impress with technology, and give your target demographic enough reasons to buy your product. One effective way to wow people …
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Google “Farmer” Update: Big Panda Makes Mountains and Molehills
For the web designer or internet marketer, Big Panda brought the web back to the user. The goal, more now than ever, is to create a site that people will want to interact with. Compelling visual designs, interesting and relatable content, and user loyalty both on and off the site …
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New Google website block feature: end-user advantage or an assault on SEO?
Yesterday, Google (ever heard of ’em?) announced that they’ll allow users to start blocking whole websites that they don’t want to see in their search results. The internet’s long been a place where the individual user can define a personalized geography of websites and online communities where irrelevant content effectively …
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Barnacle SEO – Local Search Engine Optimization for The Sam’s Club Crowd
Barnacle SEO update for Pubcon New Orleans 2014 on slideshare: Barnacle SEO for Local Search at #Pubcon This post is republished here since the site on which it was originally published is now offline. Originally published. Many of the examples are no longer valid, but I hope the screenshots are still …
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