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Is Bing Peacocking in Social Media?

June 26, 2012

With Bing acquiring the social network Yammer for a cool 1.2 billion, we can look forward to  yet another giant pushing us into their spheres of influence. So far, Facebook dominates the market with Google+ still looking like a pimply faced teenager, taking forever to get out of adolescents.  One of the clever bits this [...]

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How Google Views the Internet

June 25, 2012

    While the specifics of exactly how Google’s algorithm decides which webpages should rank how in the search engine, one thing is clear: if other people think you’re content or song or video are cool,  you’ll show up nearer to the number one spot. In an over arching way, Google Search Engine Rankings are [...]

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SEO For Free

May 24, 2012

So, as an entrepeneur and an analyst, I have a certain amount of freedom in the way I do my business, so I try to use as much free seo software and tools as possible.  Here’s a collection of what I think are the best of the free tools are there. Now, there’s a lot [...]

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Why your Web Developer and SEO Analyst Should Work Together

May 15, 2012

When it comes to setting up SEO for your website, it’s always a lot easier to start at the beginning.  Just like building a house, you can start with a blueprint.  I’ve seen plumbers have to go in and dig out concrete where a pipe was forgotten. It isn’t pretty; and it’s expensive. I’ve been [...]

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The idiot rule for SEO

May 9, 2012

If people can’t find you when they look for you the first time, they won’t look for you the second time.

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Do I need a mobile Website?

May 9, 2012

Most of us remember with some sort of nostalgia the large telephone books that would arrive every year.  While to my adolescent mind this represented nothing more than a large amount of fire starter, to those older than me it was the place to start looking for businesses.  But the notion that phone books have been [...]

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Cutting Costs with SEO

How much should you pay for SEO? Cost vs Price in picking an SEO company

May 7, 2012

The business mantra that was repeated in my house as a child was “Well, you have to spend money to make money.”  While the truth of this is easy enough to understand, I’ve seen examples where businesses have discovered that if you spend not quite enough money, you lose a lot more of it.  A [...]

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Simple Stuff: Internet Kids Don’t Wait for No One. Fix your page load times.

April 27, 2012

One problem that is constantly nagging people is whether or not their website needs any extra SEO, and whether the returns would be worth shelling out some hard earned money. Well, first things first: anyone who has grown up with the internet, or spent a relatively large amount of time on it in the last [...]

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