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Yahoo Teamed with Microsoft – Wants to Leave Already?
It seems like not too long ago that Yahoo and Microsoft were hyping up their search relationship that they were forging. Wait, that's because it wasn't too long ago. And oddly enough, there is gossip that Yahoo wants out already. What exactly did they team up on?...
Twitter Self-Serving Ads Released to US
Self-serving ads have been on Twitter for a while. So what's the big deal? Their ad platform is now open to all US users, instead of by invitation only. The ad platform now includes a bit of Twitter-in-house analytics to help advertisers manage their campaigns....
20 Country Specific TLD’s Now Generic, At Least to Google
Remember when .tv and .co were meant to designate that a site was about Tuvalu and Colombia? Yeah, us neither. That was the intention though when those and many other ccTLD's (country specific Top Level Domains) were created. The popularity of many TLD's simplicity or...
Blog Usernames
Quick update to let client know that we are updating our logins across blogs on our various awesome client's (that's you) sites. Should you have a blog that we optimize, maintain, host, etc. then you may receive a notice from the blog software that a new user has...
Bing to Release “Product Ads”
Over the last year, Google has converted free listings to paid listings, like their Shopping/Product placements. From a business side, you can't blame them. They've made a killing. It looks that Bing will shortly be following suit. Bing recently announced the...
Mobile Design
Is your website responsive? What does responsive mean? Responsive is a term used to declare if a website can recognize when a user is on a mobile/table device and "respond" by changing it's design for more optimal layout/orientation for varying devices. Why does this...
Press Releases, Not Just for PR
Ok, ok. So we've been beating you up about Press Releases ("PR's") lately. It's for the collective good though. :) Here's why. As search engines regularly update their algorithms to determine how what sites rank where, the value of SEO variables can change. In...
New Websites
Did you know that a new site that runs on a more efficient CMS (Content Management System) can help your site's optimization. Be considerate of what data, content, and variables change during the process though, as you could lose a lot of hard work to-date. Make sure...
What does Google like?
If' you've been working on any online marketing for your website, than obviously Google is a big part of your equation. What does Google like? Here's a good article from socialmediatoday that summarizes a lot of the industry's opinion on this topic. Publishing...
What keywords do you target?
This is what we work with one-on-one with clients. The typical process of finalizing a list of target keywords starts with the client providing a handful of core keywords that they know they're likely to want to target. We can run those through a variety of data...
What Websites Do You Submit Links To?
Picking up again on the necessity of diverse backlinks, all domains that we submit to are public websites. We do not participate in any posting networks, link farms, nor do we submit to any "exclusive" domains that (more often than not) the SEO company just owns...
Upcoming Social Media Services
We have spent the last few weeks formally mapping out some fulfillment models for social media that we've had tentatively drafted for quite some time. Once we get settled into our new Utah SEO facility, we plan on moving forward with offering additional social media...
Expanding Operations
We're excited to be moving into new office space this year. We recently acquired a new facility to support our increasing client base, and plans for continued expansions. While most of our clients are outside of Utah, this puts us right in the middle of our two...
Facebook Graph Search
Did you hear that long circulating rumors about a Facebook search feature were finally confirmed this week? Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, participated in a press conference to introduce Facebook's "Graph Search." This new search feature will not be a directly...
2012 SEO Recap
What a year 2012 has been. From "Panda" updates to "Penguins," new search engine features, etc. there has been a lot of innovation in the search engine world this year. And, personally, we continue to top each year in growth, and continue to add new features to your...