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Is Blog Comment Link Building Bad For SEO?

If you are like most webmasters and SEOs today, you are very careful about link building, and especially blog commenting. And with good reason. Google has gone on record speaking out against link schemes as a whole. The passage below from Google’s Link Schemes Page summarizes their overall stance on the matter: Any links intended

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7 Simple Ways to Market a New E-commerce Website

Enjoy the following guest post focused on how to promote a new e-commerce website, courtesy of professional internet marketer Alan Lucas. The views expressed in this post are those of the author and not necessarily that of Return On Now. Creating an e-commerce site can be one of the most profitable moves you could ever

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Internet Marketing 101: Messaging, Life Cycle, Personas

Internet Marketing 101 [Slideshow]

Our friends over at SCORE have been hard at work to provide quality, up-to-date trainings to business owners and managers in the Austin, TX area. As part of that ongoing effort, we collaborated with them to build out a basic class called “Internet Marketing 101”. The intent of this training is to glaze the surface

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How to Find Free Frameworks for WordPress

In today’s business environment, more and more people are starting to run their websites and online businesses themselves. This applies across the board – everything from social media to marketing, from web design to SEO itself. Many are even starting to create their own WordPress themes. When designing themes, WordPress frameworks are an invaluable tool

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Semantic Markup: Use Schema.org as a resource

Semantic Markup: Adding Context To SEO

The Internet world has been up in airs the past few weeks in response to Google’s recent changes. And the changes this summer were quite large indeed! First, we learned that we no longer have access to full keyword-level data for our Organic traffic. Then, Google announced that they have moved to a whole new

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User Experience Is More Than Usability [Slideshow]

How often do you hear business and marketing pros refer to user experience and usability as the same concept? It’s true that usability is a key component of user experience design, without question. But they are absolutely different ideas. User Experience (UX) for Content Marketing On Friday September 27, 2013, I conducted a training for

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Google Hummingbird Announced

Today is the 15th anniversary of the day Google was founded. To those of us in the industry, this is a pretty major milestone. In typical Google fashion, they threw a shindig at the house where the company first started in the Bay area. Many media and industry pundits were in attendance, and it sounds

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Google Secure Search: Reacting to Keyword Not Provided

There has been quite the uproar the past few days, after Google announced that they are moving 100% of search queries from unencrypted to Secure Search. When this news broke on September 23, the SEO world had a collective panic attack. But is this really the end of SEO as we know it? Google Secure

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How to Protect Your Online Reputation

Your company’s online reputation is very important. Most people check online to see what reviews have been left about a company before making a purchase decision. If you have detractors online, you could be losing clients. It’s important to realize that even if you aren’t online, your reputation is. People could be writing about your

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