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One of the most discussed articles about Twitter recently was a New York Times piece about the Twitter usage of teenagers or rather the lack of it. Teens don’t tweet.
Only roughly 10% of teenagers below the age of 18 use Twitter and the whole Web seems surprised [...]

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Twitter Friday: Teens Don’t Tweet – So What?

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Social media is all the rage right now. You see it in blog posts everywhere. You see Twitter feeds on news shows. In the last month my mother and several uncles joined Facebook! Simply put, social media is all over the place. But is it useful for the average business?
While not all businesses will use [...]

Nowadays lowering bounce rates and increasing conversion rates are two or rather one (as both are closely tied together) of the main tasks that modern SEO is about.

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It’s obvious: Rankings and traffic do not mean much when the website visitors bounce off and you fail to convert them to buyers, subscribers or [...]

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30 Simple Ways of Improving Bounce Rate and Conversion Rate

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Remember in grade school, when your teacher asked you to begin writing for two minutes; without stopping, and then forced you to pass this masterpiece over to a friend for editing? It was embarrassing and challenging as a young child to try something new and become an author in 2 minutes or less. Yeah, I [...]

When we first get a client at SEO.com, one of the first things we check during our intake process is the client’s blog. Many of our clients come to us without a blog, and those that previously had one rarely use it. We often suggest adding a blog and using it as a marketing tool for the [...]

I recently caught wind of the ability to grow perfect white (or clear) diamonds in a lab. They have been able to create colored diamonds in labs for some time now, but the white diamond idea intrigued me so I started doing some research. I searched on “white man-made diamonds”, “cultured white diamonds”, “synthetic white [...]

Let’s take the time machine way back to the good ol’ days. There once was a time when people waited. It was a magical time when folks stopped to talk on the street and books were as thick as five stacked laptops. And would you believe that we had attention spans back then? I know, [...]

There’s a new face in the world of price comparison site marketing, but how will Gio Compario compare to the Aleksandr, founder of Compare the Meerkat?
If you haven’t yet encountered Gio Compario then the chances are you will soon – he’s Go Compare’s answer to Aleksandr the meerkat:

The world of price comparison websites is a [...]

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Can Gio Compario take on Compare the Meerkat?

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I know all of you SEO.com fans out there are wondering “what are the most important plugins that I can use on my WordPress blog for SEO”? Well, I’ve decided to unveil our secret stash of the best WordPress plugins for SEO because this is the year of sharing. And also I’d like to see [...]

The dust has all but settled on the now somewhat recent news of Matt Cutt’s announcement that the rel=”nofollow” no longer works for Pagerank sculpting. (If you haven’t heard, check out Matt’s post here.) At first, there was an awful lot of confusion and I can only feel sorry for Matt for having to answer [...]

Graphics.net becomes part of SEO.com to form a comprehensive Internet marketing firm. The SEO company now offers full-service, professional Web design combined with all aspects of search engine optimization.
SALT LAKE CITY (Aug. 19, 2009) — SEO.com, a leader in Internet marketing and search engine optimization, today announced it has expanded [...]

E Mare Libertas, “From the Sea, Freedom” is the motto of the tiny water fortress and country of Sealand. You may never have heard of this micro-nation before, but locked within the history of this principality we may find parallels on how to stake a claim on the virtual seas of the Web.

The British developed [...]

As an SEO, I know that my industry is constantly changing and evolving. That is one of the reasons why I truly love marketing through the search engines. One upcoming change will be the release of what has been code-named “Google Caffeine,” which can be beta-tested here. It will be a new, more powerful version [...]

Do you remember the line full of acronyms used by Robin Williams in the movie, “Good Morning Vietnam”? Every time I see all of the acronyms in the internet marketing world, it reminds me of that line from the movie.
“Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P. shouldn’t we keep the P.C. on the [...]

Where’s the retweet? Can you see it?
The big news today: Twitter will finally accept retweets and make them part of the built in system or simply put the Twitter home page. At first I was moderately happy about this overdue move until I read the fine print.
In future Twitter will let people block your retweets.

While [...]

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Twitter Friday: Twitter Will Block Your Retweets

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Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about real-time search, but is it necessary? First, let’s look at the current state of search and crawl.*
Unless your site is decidedly authoritative, like CNN.com, you’re likely to get crawled as Google indexes more authoritative sites that are linking to your own. Your site will end up [...]

After only a month in its new office, the SEO company adds more staff positions to accommodate a growing clientele. The company has added new search engine optimization specialists, a pay-per-click expert, and others to expand its services.
SALT LAKE CITY (Aug. 12, 2009) — The fast-paced summer of SEO.com continues. Just [...]

I heard something on the radio a few weeks ago that stuck with me and made me think about the basics of SEO. The line went something like this, “You have to have the fundamentals down before trying any of the fancy stuff. ” So before you go out and try to do things like [...]

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Do you remember the term link bait or link baiting? While 2006 and 2007 link baiting was all the rage in recent years it seems people don’t talk or write much about this practice anymore. Has link baiting vanished? Not at all.
Link baiting is daily business right now, it’s the norm.
Indeed I [...]

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45 Link Baiting Resources: Ideas, Techniques, Case Studies & Drawbacks

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Conducting keyword research can be a bit of a challenge if you aren’t using the right tools. When you conduct a search for “keyword research tools,” you’ll come across so many choices it can be hard to choose just one. So what are some strong keyword research tools available today? I’ve come across a few [...]

Ever since the emergence of Universal Search video SEO has been in the focus of forward looking online marketers. Videos can potentially get millions of views and spread virally with ease.
YouTube videos often show on the first page of Google results. More often than any other Universal Search results, be it images, maps or news [...]

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Video SEO: How to get 4 Times as Popular as Michael Jackson

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Twitter is an extremely popular social media site, and many companies are exploring ways to use it for marketing purposes. With all the attention it’s getting, it seems as though anyone who is anyone is posting updates on Twitter. I must not be anyone. I’m a copywriter. Twitter never seemed to apply to me. If [...]

In the early hours of Thursday according to US Eastern Time our beloved Twitter was down. In a way the world stood still. I was also surprised by the outage in spite of frequent Twitter downtimes in recent months. Maybe it was surprising due to the fact that there was no “fail whale” sorry page [...]

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Twitter Friday: Twitter Was Down for 2h and the World Stood Still

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The Utah-based search engine marketing company outgrew its old home; moves from Provo to a larger office in Salt Lake County to make room for further expansion.
SALT LAKE CITY (Aug. 6, 2009) — After two years in Utah County — most recently in the Novell Technology Center building in Provo — SEO.com has moved [...]

Flickr has become increasingly popular as a very powerful tool for bloggers looking to brighten up their content. An attractive post, containing interesting images, often has a far greater likelihood of gaining attention from social media audiences, attracting natural links and more importantly actually being read in the first place! In this post, I’ve decided [...]

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Looking for Blogging Inspiration? How to Find Great Images on Flickr

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Are you being kept in the dark by your current SEO firm? Do you wish the communication lines were a little more open? It’s too bad that some SEO companies view communication and sharing as a conflict of interest rather than an opportunity for reinforced, attack-at-all-sides teamwork. Amazingly, some SEOs believe clients would only stick [...]

Females aged between 35 and 49 are the fastest-growing group within social networks and blogging sites, according to recent research by Neilson. So how can marketers ensure they are effectively selling to women?

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Before I begin this post, let’s get a few things straight. I do not believe that women are completely different [...]

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Marketing to women on the World Wide Web

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I came back last week from a relaxing vacation and found an email in my inbox sporting the following title: “PageRank is Dead.”
Upon reading the title, my mind went blank, closing up in an effort to prevent shock. Was this possible? The Death of PageRank? I tried to remember the predetermined events of the SEO [...]

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In the last six months, we’ve seen many established food brands give away food using social media marketing. Using this medium, many companies have transitioned to online marketing and successfully received online and traditional press. In addition to press, many bloggers and fans of Twitter and Facebook have shared their brand preferences effectively endorsing these [...]