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In late 2012, we published an article about responsive website design, or RWD, a revolutionary new approach to crafting sites, which delivers an optimal viewing experience for users regardless of the device they're using. Consider this your 2013 update. Unlike regular websites that aren't able to di...
Is your company’s website as effective at generating sales/leads as it could be? Which aspects of the website have the biggest opportunities for improvement? Pay-per-click advertising is an easy and cost-effective way to collect reliable performance information to answer these questions and generall...
Little-known fact: free listings are the key to successfully promoting your local business online. The Internet, without question, is the primary method of individuals and businesses alike to research local companies. More and more businesses are reaching these prospects through the use of free loca...
How Google Finds Websites: They go by several titles. Generically, they’re referred to as spiders or crawlers or bots – specifically, Google calls them Googlebots. These are programs that scan, or crawl, the Internet searching for new and/or updated pages to add to the Google index. In fact, every s...
Entering most anything into Google Search will yield you ten organic results, which are made up of ten separate component, or parts – though when it comes to influencing the click-through patterns of potential business leads, some of these parts are more important than others. In this two-part artic...
“Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines.” – Google Far too many webmasters make pages and sites which do not actually work well for humans. That is bad search engine optimization (SEO) and will cost your company sales. Here are some SEO mistakes you might be making and how you can fi...
Search engines, like the stock market, are constantly changing because their algorithms are directly influenced by the people who use them. And as long as The Times Keep On A-Changin’, so will the Internet search game. For example, Google handles approximately 100 billion searches every month. Those...
Mary Meeker, the head of Morgan Stanley’s Global Technology Research Team, took the stage at Akamai’s 2010 State of the Internet report and said that within the next five years “more users will connect to the Internet over mobile devices than desktop PCs.” Well, whad’ya know? 2012 is almost over, an...
There is no shortage of “miracle cures” that promise to get your company website on the coveted 1 page of Google. However, while many of these services did work at some point, Google’s ever-evolving algorithm and constantly changing rules have since made them not only obsolete, but detrimental to yo...
According to the 2012 Social Media Marketing Industry Report: 94% of all marketing departments use social media to market their business Nearly 60% of marketers devote 8 hours/day to maintain and develop social media 43% of people aged 20-29 spend over 10 hours a week on social media sites 85% of...
