Today I came across some huge news for bloggers and internet marketers alike – Getty Images is making close to 40 million of their stock art images available for free use, with only attribution to Getty as the source required. This is a big deal. A huge deal actually. Until now, the only ways to […]
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Last year, I finally bit the bullet and purchased a full access pass to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference. As a local Austin resident, I had taken advantage of the SXSW Music Festival for years. Having made the leap from client side to Return On Now full time in early 2012, the time
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Trending topics in SEO tend to focus on the more sexy stuff like optimizing the on-page, building links, and how social and author authority are poised to impact performance. While those are all important topics, they matter very little if you have a poorly performing website in the first place. Smart webmasters will do everything
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Over the past couple of years, there has been a growing trend of new websites with infinite scroll incorporated. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, the idea of infinite scroll is that you cannot physically scroll to the bottom of a web page. If you get toward the bottom, either additional content will
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Content Marketing has been a hotly contested topic of late. It has been promoted as the best way to market yourself overall, the replacement for link building, and a requirement for success today. While I wholeheartedly agree that content marketing can provide an immense amount of business value, it is not in and of itself
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Most of my more recent blog posts have been focused on specific internet marketing concepts, such as SEO, SEM, content marketing, social media, etc. However, if you have been reading my work since our earlier days, you already know that we started out covering a broader spectrum of business subjects. Today, I am taking a
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Social media marketing has reached widespread acceptance in the business world heading into 2014. You would be hard pressed to find a company that does not understand the value it can bring to their business success. To get a feel for the enormity of its acceptance, consider the following statistics: 86% of marketers indicate that
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The blogosphere, message boards, and forums have been up in airs this week after Matt Cutts (Head of Webspam, Google) posted on his personal blog that “guest blogging is done.” Before you read the rest of this post, take a look at the blog post in question: The decay and falling of guest blogging for
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Google recently announced that they are sharing more detailed data about search queries in Google Webmaster Tools. It seems that most of the SEO and Internet Marketing world completely overlooked the announcement, so let’s take a quick moment today to look at what this means and why we should all care. Why Detailed Search Queries
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Earlier this week, my father shared an interesting story with me. It reminded me of a situation I face when potential clients approach Return On Now looking for “Cheap SEO” or “Affordable SEO”. My dad runs his own uniform company, selling to the oilfield and other industrial companies near the Gulf Coast. Given the up
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