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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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Social Media for Politics and Activism

Social media marketing isn’t just the domain of commercial ventures and corporate outreach. If you represent a non-profit organization, a political campaign, or even just a cause that currently lacks

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Outsourcing Social Media Marketing

A strange headline caught my eye recently. It asked the question, “Is outsourcing social media marketing cheating?” It’s hard to know exactly what that question means. Answering it requires that

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Called It! Hidden Cash Becomes Marketing Gimmick

Since the last time we mentioned the “Hidden Cash” Twitter phenomenon, the identity of at least one person behind the altruistic game has come to light, and the tweets and

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Don’t Just Learn From Journalists…

Yahoo! “Small Business Advisor” has an article about “Six Lessons Social Media Marketers Can Learn from Journalists.” It raises some interesting points about the importance of research, style, language, multimedia,

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“Hidden Cash” Makes Great Use of Social Media

In May, an anonymous real estate developer gave away more than $10,000 to random recipients in San Francisco, hiding cash in public places and tweeting clues about where it could

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Localized SEO and Marketing for Your Business

“It’s more important than ever for advertisers to have an ad strategy that accounts for consumers’ context and location,” according to the latest study by Google. The study emphasizes consumers’

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Don’t Let Your Twitter Campaign Get Hijacked

There are a lot of marketing horror stories about Twitter campaigns going awry because of deliberate sabotage. People who disagree with a certain brand’s vision, or who just want attention,

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Targeting Social Media Locally

You might think that if you’re trying to market your business or personal brand to a local area, the way to do that is still through billboards and radio spots

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SEO is Reputation Management

Search engine optimization is an ongoing process for any website. The ever-growing competition for exposure on the web sure to be obvious to any web marketing and social media company.

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