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Outsource SEO or Keep In-House? (infographic)
Want to optimize your website? How? You have two options: (1) Create an in-house SEO team; (2) Hire an SEO company. Before making a decision, it's good to know their differences. What are the advantages or disadvantages? Save
Increasing Productivity for Parent Entrepreneurs
As an entrepreneur, there are two things that you love most, your work and your family. Sometimes it seems like your business is another child of yours. It needs constant attention, to be fed, to be supported. But family always comes first. So how do you balance...
Maximizing Your Website for Search Engine Visibility
Getting your website up and running is one story. Getting it to show up on the top of search engines is another story. Listed below are some of the most common mistakes website owners commit that limits their online visibility with search engines. 1. Keyword stuffing....
10 Ideas to Help You Create Content
As an SEO company, we understand the importance of writing engaging and high-quality content. It's a must. Content drives everything in your business. No content equals no traffic. And no traffic equals no sales. You get the idea. No inspiration? No problem. We’ve...
5 Tips to Prevent Eyestrain When Staring at Screens 24/7
For SEO consultants or anyone who works with computers and mobile devices 24/7, eye health may seem not as important as finishing a project, meeting deadlines, or marketing a product. Yes, we ignore eye health. And even if we know how essential our eyes are in our...
3 Must-Read SEO Materials
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." - Gustave Flaubert March 2nd welcomes "Read Across America Day." This day promotes reading throughout the nation - an ingredient to help...
Super Bowl 2016 and its High-Cost Ads
For some, watching the Super Bowl has become a family tradition and a cultural phenomenon. Everyone's excited. And it's not just a football game, but also a massive media craze, magnetizing the mainstream. Super Bowl 2014 set an impressive record of 111.5 million TV...
National Mentoring Month: 5 Websites That Teach Effective SEO
January is such a month for productivity. Aside from New Year resolutions and January being National Thank You Month, January is also National Mentoring Month. The purpose is to promote the importance of learning and teaching. Learning from or passing on your...
Talk Like A Pirate Day And Other Online Nonsense
People's imagination can be amusing. It can also be silly. It is equally hilarious how some insane ideas are born, spread, and become fads. One example is “Talk like a Pirate Day.” Talk Like a Pirate Day started in 1995. Oddly enough, it was born during a game of...
77 Pieces of Evidence that Comcast Likes to Murder Trees?
Sure seems like Comcast likes to waste paper. Here is a few month's worth of mail, all are from Comcast. These were all mailed to a location that already has the Comcast service that is being solicited in the mail piece. You'd think such a large company would know...
Free list of 123 press release websites… and why we don’t use it
In SEO there's a never-ending desire to get backlinks or co-citation. One way to get in valuable citations (and sometimes backlinks) is through submitting press releases. This is, of course, if you submit to the right places. Over the years, we've collected quite a...
Google Use Email or Instant Messages for Rankings?
There are many factors that are considered when a search engine ranks your website. In fact, there's hundreds, possibly thousands of factors. Many are commonly known or assumed. unique, quality content optimized head structure (title tags and meta) quick page load...
Condensed Evolution of Search Engines
The Beginning (1991-2002) It all began when Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first website on August 6, 1991. As expected, it was followed by numerous other websites. In 1993, search platforms including Excite started categorizing results based on keywords located...
Do press releases still have a place in SEO?
Press releases of the past were largely an offline medium. As SEO showed up on the map, optimization began incorporating press releases into fulfillment and press began transitioning to encompass online fulfillment, too. SEO's first embraced press releases to work in...
Super Bowl 2016 Ad Price Tag: $5,000,000
Earlier this year we wrote about how Super Bowl 2015's advertising cost of $4.5 million was a doozy, but not to be surprised if the following year increases even more. Looks like our prediction in our post earlier this year about Super Bowl advertising rates came to...