We all know social media is powerful - But how powerful? We want to find out so we have set up a test. This test involves making a video offering $100 to a random stranger pulled from a random social media profile. The catch? We aren’t going to.
Topics: Social Media, test, Tests

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Second tier search engines are commonly defined as any search engine that draws less than 10% of the search traffic. I define second tier search engines as search engines other than Google, Yahoo and MSN. Even though they are such a small part of the...
Topics: PPC, second tier, tier 2

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One thing that I tell everyone to do is start a blog. Blogging can bring in traffic for keywords you plan for (both long and short tail) and you will also see traffic from some keywords you never thought of – even after all the research, all the...
Topics: blog, Blogging, how to blog, Social Media, start a blog

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I say kinda, because PPC should be the last part of anyone’s online strategy. The goal of pay per click is to get users to your website with proper key word selection and compelling ad copy. I have always told clients that the goal of PPC is to get...
Topics: Design, online branding, online media strategy, pay per click, PPC, SEO

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A friend asked recently “If no one, outside of Google developers, know how the search engine indexes and ranks websites why do so many people give so much money to have their sites optimized?” No sooner had this left my friends lips did I say:...
Topics: Google, SEO, Social Media

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