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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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Digital Marketing for Analog Clients

When you think of the client base for a Los Angeles digital marketing firm, you probably just think of a long roster of websites. Some of them might be e-commerce

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Professional Web Designers Guide a Visitor’s Eye

In a recent post, I pointed to current trends in search engine optimization. What I did not mention is that the underlying research has lessons to teach professional web designers,

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Social Media Marketing Should Anticipate Unpopular Business Decisions

Can social media marketing overcome the backlash that sometimes arises from rational business decisions? That’s the question posed by a number of recent incidents in which companies took certain steps

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Search Engine Optimization is Changing Alongside User Behavior

Traditionally, search engine optimization has been strictly preoccupied with getting results into the first position on a search engine results page (SERP). But the latest research suggests that this isn’t

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DIY Versus Professional Digital Marketing

Professional digital marketing is a substantial investment for any company. Of course, the hope is that once a relationship is established between a client and marketer, the return on investment

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Web Design Upgrades at Major Sites Convey Lessons for All

Web design upgrades can come as a surprise to a site’s established users. This is especially true of major social media platforms, which people use as a regular part of

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Social Media Marketing Faces Organic Changes

Certain kinds of social media marketing may soon have to rely more heavily on organic methods of reaching an audience. That’s because at least where Twitter is concerned, paid ads

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SEO Services Have 2 Goals: Quality & Shareability

Quality content is the single most important factor in SEO services. But it’s almost every bit as important to make sure that that content is actually being shared. Even the

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E-Commerce Marketing Demands Professional Data-Collection Tools

In e-commerce marketing, every click that brings someone to a website is a source of potentially valuable data. Site owners may not always know how to capture that data, much

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