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Fortnight Feature No. 10 – Semantic Markup

By Sam Mock on May 6, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies, On Site SEO

Often lost in the hullabaloo of Internet marketing is the most fundamental necessity for the SEO health of a website – semantic markup. While not the most glamorous or talked about tool, good semantic markup serves to bolster the on-site integrity and stability of a webpage. Without proper XHTML tags, a lot of quality content [...]

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Fortnight Feature No. 9 – Guest Blogging

By Sam Mock on April 23, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies, SEO for Blogging

Internet marketing is ever-changing and with the introduction of Google’s Panda and Penguin algorithms, quality content is now essential to a successful web presence. This isn’t breaking news. However, of the many incarnations of content marketing, guest blogging is one of the more complex, interesting techniques that has carved out a unique niche on the [...]

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5 Tips Guest Bloggers Can Take From Midwestern Values

By Sam Mock on April 22, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies, Link Building

The heartland. Meat and potatoes. Fly-over country. Where the butter flows like water and the cows practically tip themselves. Not a lot of folks automatically think of the Midwest as the nation’s tech center. But when it comes to how to approach Internet marketing, we could take a page from the traditional ethos of America’s [...]

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Fortnight Feature No. 8 – Social Media Advertising

By Sam Mock on April 8, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies

Social Media Advertising Can Work. Really. Advertising pays for much of what we enjoy. And sometimes, we even enjoy the advertising itself. With regard to social media, the former is definitely true. We’re still waiting for the latter to take shape. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media channels are all looking to expand and [...]

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Five Important Locations for Keywords

By Rod Holmes on March 29, 2013 in On Site SEO

I had a meeting with a client yesterday who was a little concerned. We do some of his content creation and he had noticed that we were not including meta keywords on the blog posts we had been doing for him. He was sure that either he didn’t know something we knew, or he had [...]

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Fortnight Feature No. 7 – Search Engines

By Sam Mock on March 25, 2013 in Search Engines

The Search Engine Ecosystem During the previous couple dozen years, the wilds of the Internet have settled into something of an identifiable ecosystem. And it doesn’t come as any news that Google is at the top of that ecosystem, determining the behavior and relationships of others, like businesses and customers. In fact, you might say [...]

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Fortnight Feature No. 6 – Mobile Marketing

By Sam Mock on March 11, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies

The New Mobile Idolatry If you’ve recently walked down the street, been on the bus, or existed at all in public space, you’ve noticed that it’s a lot harder to make eye contact with people. Instead, you see the tops of their heads, as they piously crane their necks downward toward clasped palms. Such apparently [...]

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Keeping up with Mobile Marketing

By Sam Mock on March 5, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies

Mobile is the new frontier in all things technology, marketing, lifestyle – you name it. Just as they adjusted their marketing style from radio to television some 60 years ago, the smartest advertisers are devising new ways to adapt their message to this platform. And just like the transition 60 years ago, there are some [...]

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Fortnight Feature No. 5 – Social Channels for Businesses

By Sam Mock on February 25, 2013 in Internet Marketing Strategies

Choosing a Table in the Social Media Cafeteria Thought you left high school behind? It doesn’t seem like it when choosing a social media platform feels a lot like finding a seat in your old cafeteria. With the ongoing push towards content marketing and social outreach, it can be difficult to know where to begin. [...]

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