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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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Social Media Management for College Admissions and More

On Wednesday, CNN published an article that may seem unusual by the standards of all the other articles I’ve highlighted on the topics of social media management and online marketing.

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Mobile SEO Means Local SEO

On Wednesday, Mass Central published an article on the difference between mobile and desktop SEO. I’ve previously talked about the need for optimizing one’s website for mobile users, and I’ve

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Web Marketing Firms as Aids to Competitive Research

On Wednesday, Site Point published an article on the familiar topic of competitive research in web marketing. There’s no shortage of such articles online, although it is sometimes difficult to

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Purchasing Leads vs. Organic Leads

Any time you find your business targeting a specific set of potential consumers instead of just advertising to a general audience, you’re engaging in a process that begins with lead

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Artificial vs. Actual Intelligence in Web Design

Last week, the Huffington Post published an article discussing the efforts that companies are putting forth to design algorithms – what’s increasingly known as artificial intelligence – to create customized

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Social Media as a Matter of Life and Death

On Wednesday, Gizmodo claimed that following the right people on social media can save your life. But other approaches to the same underlying story emphasize that saying the wrong thing

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It’s Not Too Hard to Avoid SEO Penalties

Forbes recently published an article dealing with search engine optimization and the problem of having rankings penalized for certain types of links. The author argues that although such penalties are

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Olympic Marketing and Legal Restrictions

Recently, CIO Today published an interesting article about the restrictions that face smaller advertisers around the time of each Olympic Games. The story is generalizable to other events in which

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Competitor Analysis is a Joint Venture for Site Owners and Web Designers

On Tuesday, HubSpot published an article outlining a series of testing methods that could be utilized to reduce the length of the web design process and the amount of expense

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