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Your Facebook Page Checklist
With the news of Facebook’s Graph Search, it remains to be seen how popular the feature will be once it’s released to the masses. In preparation, it’s time to clean up your Facebook Page. Shortstack wrote a post with an extensive checklist about how to evaluate your Facebook Page. Their readers loved it — it was one of the most…
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Blog Promotion Strategies From Top Marketing Experts
A successful blogging strategy ain’t easy but it’s also not rocket science. Some folks think that “If you blog, they will come…” but nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, you could organically attract folks to your blog over time and you may even be content with that. But if you’re not getting the kind of numbers you need…
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SEO: 10 Backlinking Temptations To Avoid
Google’s gold standard of whether or not a website should be ranked well continues to change over time, but for quite a while the best method has gone unchanged… relevant backlinks from legitimate, authoritative sites. On-page SEO and lots of great content may get your site indexed for specific keywords, but quality backlinks will drive up its rank. Since backlinks…
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Stop Talking And Listen
Social media is social. We have all heard that a million times. The reason we have all heard this a million times is because it is the only single constant rule that can be proven about social media by anyone. The biggest problem I see on a regular basis is that people are talking at their followers rather than talking…
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How to Avoid Site Migration Suicide
Our first question when a client tells us they’re going to develop a new site is whether the page hierarchy and link structure is going to change. Most of the time the answer is yes… and that’s when the fun starts. If you’re an established company who has had a site for a while, migrating to a new CMS and…
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Website Testing Beyond the Landing Page
We’ve already posted a landing page best practices infographic that drew a lot of attention. This infographic from Monetate, Website Testing: Move Beyond the Landing Page, really takes it up a notch… providing input on other pages to test, elements to test, audience to test for, testing solutions and considerations when purchasing a testing solution. Smart marketers understand the value…
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Adtivity: Improve the Impact of your Social Media Ads
Over time, marketers have developed unique and innovative methods to generate leads. But online ads still retain a dominant position in the marketplace. Appssavvy’s study, “Social Activity Index – Measuring the Effectiveness of Social Advertising” conducted in April 2011, reveals that advertising integrated into social activities that is spread across social games, applications, and web sites is 11 times more…
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Tablet & Mobile Shoppers Holiday Plans
Our digital catalog publisher client, Zmags, recently conducted a survey on what consumers’ shopping habits would be this holiday season. Based on the results, the majority of shoppers will be purchasing on their mobile and tablet devices this year and in-store purchases will go down. Digital catalogs are the 2nd most popular shopping destination after websites. If you’re an online…
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Why Bing Wins Video Search over Google
Google may be paying a little too much attention to text. Take a look at the stark difference between Google’s video search results and Bing’s video search results. I don’t often give Microsoft credit in the usability department – but they nailed this one! Google Video Search Results 1.webp” alt=”google-video-search” title=”google-video-search” width=”640″ height=”426″ class=”alignnone size-full tie-image4462″ /> Bing Video Search…
