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Service area pages SEO checklist for city pages that aren't thin

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Service Area Pages SEO: A Checklist for Pages That Aren’t Thin

Service Area Pages SEO: A Checklist for Pages That Aren’t Thin Service area pages SEO goes wrong the same way most of the time. A business serves many towns, so

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Refuting Simplistic SEO Claims – Again

Admittedly, I’m beginning to feel as though I’m beating a dead horse, but the internet continues to spit out misleading articles about search engine optimization and I continue to feel

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In SEO and Web Marketing: Beware of the Bots

Last week, CIO published an article featuring a fairly staggering statistic. The latest analyses of web traffic find that nearly half of all “visitors” to sites across the web are

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You can Recognize a Good Web Designer without First Becoming One

On Monday, Examiner posted a simple article purporting to detail the “best principles of effective web design.” The headline went on to provocatively claim that these are principles that “most

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Adapting SEO and Web Marketing to Google’s SERP Change

On Wednesday, Search Engine Land posted a very helpful article about the recent change to how Google’s search engine results page is displayed. In response to the growing prevalence of

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From Your Website to Other Media

An excellent local social media company or SEO company should provide your business’s website with a steady stream of excellent content. This is its main task and the means by

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Vetting a Local Web Design Company

On Wednesday, MSN Money picked up a press release for a business review website, which offered readers advice on how to choose a good web design and development company. Predictably,

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Another Look at the Changing Face of SEO

Inc.com published a feature on Monday in which it solicited an expert’s opinion on the ways in which Search Engine Optimization is changing. The discussion was brief and general, and

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E-mail Marketing Still Relevant and Effective

In an era when web marketing is largely dominated by emerging social media platforms and strategies, it can be remarkably easy to overlook the older means of reaching out to

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Responsive Web Design and its Effects on Marketing

A couple of months ago, various year-end assessments of the web design industry emphasized the importance of “responsive web design” for local web design companies in 2016 and beyond. In

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