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The Mystic Ball website analysis tool is the best way to check all of your website's indexed pages and backlinks in the search engines. read more »
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After a business establishes its website to promote its goods or services, it has two basic choices as to how to focus its marketing efforts. The two most powerful online marketing tools available are PPC “pay per click” and SEO “search engine optim read more »
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We run into different circumstances and problems in building and maintaining these sites all the time. Here are the five most common reasons why a social media website doesn’t last and fails: read more »
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Last week, Representative Couch filed a bill to make anonymous posting online illegal. Say goodbye to posting links on blogs, forum, social sites and anywhere else you want to drop an anonymous link since your full name would be used anytime you do. read more »
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It's 1:00 am, and I just killspammed 16 Sphinn accounts. After an enjoyable night hanging out with fellow Sphinners like Jeff Quipp, Michael Dorausch, David Wallace, Lisa Barone, David Mihm, and others at SMX West, it kinda stinks to get online and read more »
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You know all the hooks to use when searching for the next great linkbait...but once you've hooked them, do you know how to keep them? read more »
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The right domain name can make or break a website for both SEO and user purposes. In the eyes of the search engine and users, the right domain name works towards forming impressions about your online credibility. read more »
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Copyblogger Guest Post: When you tell people you’re a freelancer writer, they immediately assume:
1. You spend the whole day in your pajamas, and
2. “Freelance writing” is really code for “unemployed.” read more »
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The reason why everyone is buzzing about siloing/sculpting/thematic linking is because it works. Wait, let me correct myself – It REALLY works. read more »
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Not too long ago Lee Odden queried a number of online marketing and public relations peers ranging from Aaron Wall, Matt McGee and Neil Patel to Todd Defren, Triss Hussey and Peter Himler about sharing a few of their social media marketing tips. Out read more »
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I like to think that web hosting is actually a pretty critical aspect of not only small business website design but also the core principle of search engine optimization. If you go with the wrong web host company. read more »
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How do you market your website? Is it optimized to maximize its profit potential. Most people use websites to make money in one way shape. Does yours? read more »
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All website designers have the problem of coming up with new and creative designs all the time. From those same smart people, here are a bunch of different tactics for getting over those annoying creativity blocks that I find to be extremely helpful read more »
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Developing an e-commerce website is the easy part; running it is where it gets a little trickier. Developing an internet business requires the same activities as starting any other business. The key to being part of a successful business are ideas. read more »
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Now, we know no two sites are the same. Each has its own advantages, disadvantages, and issues but they all share the same goal – SALES. With that goal in mind, we put together a small list of what we find keeps customers in the shopping cart and in read more »
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So for this post, we wanted to check search trends and find out who is more popular - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman, and The Grinch. Each have plenty of songs penned after them but my money is on jolly old St. Nick. read more »
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I’m not sure if many of you small business owners are aware of this but there is a watchdog group that wouldn’t mind poking around the computers of your business. They are looking for software violations within your company and are not shy about im read more »
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Search engine marketing is becoming more difficult day in and day out. While the challenge of boosting a web site high enough into the search engine rankings can be a profitable one, it is also difficult and time consuming. A good looking, user fri read more »
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Well, we all knew it was coming at some point. Did you really think that Uncle Sam would never try to get his fingers into the e-commerce pie? Let’s face it. Those politicians have been chomping at the bit for years to find some way to apply a sales read more »
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