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Google’s Panda 4.0 Review

On Tuesday, Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, announced via Twitter that Google was pushing out their updated Panda Algorithm, code-named Panda 4.0. Google is…

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How to get your WordPress website found on Google

Every business struggles at one point or another with how to be found by Google. Wading through the overwhelming amount of information online about marketing…

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Meetup: Climbing to the top of Google in 2014 – WordPress plugins and best practices

    Climbing to the of Google in 2014 from Mickey Mellen There is an old joke in the Property / Real Estate business: Question:…

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Monetize Your Blog with AdSense

You started a blog and you have some great content but you’d really like to start making some money. A great place to start is using Google AdSense. It takes time to build AdSense revenue, but we have 5 tips to help you get started.

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Say NO to Guest Bloggers

Have you ever gotten an email from someone offering to write a guest post for your blog?  I have.  I felt so validated.  “MY BLOG…

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The top spot in Google gets 33% of all clicks

A new study put out by the online ad company Chitika shows just how important it is to work your site into the top spot…

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SEO bootcamp recap

Our SEO bootcamp yesterday was a huge success, and we thank all of you that were able to attend. A very special thanks to Jenny…

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SEO bootcamp training on May 2

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaming up with the awesome SEO specialist Jenny Munn to hold a full-day, hands-on SEO bootcamp on May…

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Four basics to understand about SEO

We all want our sites to rank better in Google.  No matter how we’ll you’re ranking now, a little bit more would be a good…

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Did your Google traffic drop? Here’s why

Google shuffles their search results constantly and applies many different small changes to their algorithm.  However, in the past few months Google has released a…

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Why do I need to worry about WordPress updates?

One of the pieces we offer as part of our WordPress development is ongoing maintenance — security updates, plugin updates, etc.  Why does that matter?…

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What is a “mobile responsive” site?

For the past few years, it’s been common for websites to have a “normal” version of their site and a separate “mobile” version.  This works…

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Consolidating plug-ins with Jetpack and WordPress SEO

Over the past few weeks I’ve been going through the WordPress sites that I manage (roughly 100 of them, between my projects and clients) and…

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Don’t fear the Penguin; keep Google on your good side

While Google updates their results many times each day, from time to time they unveil a major algorithm change.  The most recent change, code-named “Penguin”,…

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Google+ Business Pages are now live; here’s how to get started

Google has finally launched their business pages feature, and it’s open for everyone to sign up.  You can read more about it on the Google…

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