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SEO

Optimizing Page Speed For Your Custom WordPress Site

by Jeremy Blanton on April 16, 2012

One of the things that I do on a regular basis is check the page load speed of my site to see how well it is doing with loading.  Page load speed is becoming more and more important each & every day.  While search engines are beginning to place more emphasis on the load speed [...]

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Structuring Videos On YouTube For SEO

by Jeremy Blanton on April 10, 2012

As we are well aware by now, YouTube is the world’s second largest search engine with over 4 billion videos now watched each day.  This means that it is an awesome way to gain exposure for your business online.  However, what most do not realize is that there are some basic principles to creating your [...]

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How Long Tail SEO Can Grow Your Online Business

by Jeremy Blanton on September 12, 2011

Long Tail keywords are so important to your online business and how it is found in the search engines.  If your business has been struggling to be found online, this may be something you want to look into.  While you may think that you need to be page one for your main business terms, what [...]

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How Google Shapes The World Online

by Jeremy Blanton on March 26, 2011

I found this graphic by SEO book that walks through how Google shapes the web and thought it was very informative.  Luckily, they made it available for an easy embed and so I have placed it below. The main point that I would want to make about it, is that no matter how hard you [...]

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Google Says Goodbye to Content Farms

by Jeremy Blanton on February 25, 2011

Over the past two weeks Google has really been making big news and cleaning up their search results.  First we heard all about the debacle of J.C. Penney from the NY Times for not playing well online and using too many black hat SEO techniques to even list.  Some of the topics that they used [...]

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Is Facebook Affecting the Economy?

by Jason Crouch on January 16, 2011

Recently on this blog, I talked about how people sometimes misunderstand the nature of certain websites in this post.  Facebook and Google are sort of like apples and oranges: there is no way to directly compare them.  Now, it seems some people are even willing to blame Facebook for the downturn in the economy.  Sounds [...]

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Sorry for the dramatic headline, but I figured it might not hurt to use the same tactic that I’ve seen others employ with regard to my email inbox. I guess I’m just a little bit tired of hearing self-proclaimed gurus and experts say things like, “SEO is dead” or “Facebook KO’d Google” or anything similar. [...]

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The Best of 2010- Year in Review

by Jeremy Blanton on December 24, 2010

As this year comes to an end I always try to reflect back and see what successes and what struggles we faced as a company and reflect as we make our preparations for the upcoming year.  One of the places where I start this is by looking at my Google Analytics to see what pages, [...]

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4 Reasons Why You Need an About.me Page

by Jeremy Blanton on December 21, 2010

Yesterday Mashable broke the news of a new start-up company About.me being bought by AOL after only four days of going live.  Since AOL bought this company, I figured there had to be some sort of value in what it offered.  So, I headed over to About.me and began setting up my profile. At first [...]

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Is Your Sidebar Sending Mixed Signals?

by Jeremy Blanton on December 20, 2010

After watching the game last night between the Green Bay Packers & New England Patriots, I noticed that as the game winded down to the last minute of play, the message being sent to Green Bay’s rookie quarterback must have been mixed.  He played a great game last night until the final 60 seconds.  It [...]

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