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Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Website

AMP: The Beginning of the End for Standalone Smartphone Apps?

If you’ve been paying attention to the latest trends in content marketing and SEO, you are surely aware of the AMP initiative that was publicly announced in late 2015. For those of you who have not yet seen it, you can read more about AMP on CMSwire here, here and here. Short on time? Start

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Tips to Speed Up Your WordPress Website

Tips to Speed Up Your WordPress Website

Tired of your WordPress website running too slowly? Before you give up and start looking for another content management system (CMS) to power your website, it pays to evaluate what your options are for speeding up the site. But before tinkering with WordPress itself, it’s important that you understand why it is so important. Especially for businesses,

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What Is Content Marketing Anyways

But, What Is Content Marketing? 2016 Back to Basics Series

Several months ago, we empaneled a group of communications professionals to tell us where to focus our content marketing time and treasure this year. Then we dove a little deeper into how small/medium businesses and nonprofits could apply all that internet marketing knowledge to their own endeavors. It’s been nagging at me for years now,

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10 SEO Questions to Ask Yourself in 2016

10 SEO Questions to Ask Yourself in 2016

Life is busy. It seems the more we work to get ahead, the further behind we can fall at times. In a previous career stop, I used a very effective model to help myself and my coworkers better evaluate where time is well spent. After all, if you simply chase whatever has your attention, where

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Make Your Own Small Business Facebook Page

It’s 2016: Let’s Get Started with Facebook Marketing

To All the Facebook Pages I’ve Loved Before I can’t remember how many Facebook pages I’ve set up and administered by this point. It’s not countless; I just don’t care to count it. I’m still listed as an admin on a few client accounts and receive those page notifications. I thought it was reasonable to

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Top 12 Excuses to Avoid SEO

Top 12 Lame Excuses For Not Doing SEO

As the head of Business Development for my company, Return On Now, I have the opportunity to interact with prospects and customers on a daily basis. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the primary services we offer. Most prospects come to us via referral, and as such, they already understand why they should be

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SEO 2016 Predictions from the Austin SEO Meetup

SEO 2016 Predictions

Last week I had the pleasure of moderating a discussion for the Austin SEO Meetup. At that discussion, our focus was on uncovering what we expect to change next year — basically, an SEO 2016 Predictions session. The event took place at Orange CoWorking in south Austin. Thanks to owner Shelley Delayne for hosting the event. Orange is

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Website Speed is Critical to UX and Performance

Increase Conversion Rates by Speeding Up Your Site [Infographic]

When you think about all of the things that make your online presence great, what are some attributes that come to mind? Engaging content? An aesthetically appealing design? Good social interactions? What about website speed? ¼ of all website visitors will abandon your page if it doesn’t load within four seconds. What does this mean? If

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