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How SEO Has Evolved Over The Years

Duct Tape Marketing

How SEO Has Evolved Over The Years written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Dale has been an SEO specialist for fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups around the world for two decades. As technology and algorithms are constantly changing, the world of SEO as we know it continuously evolves along with it.

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Why Small Businesses Should Adopt A Geofencing Marketing Strategy

YoungUpstarts

There are so many great marketing strategies out there, like SEO, Local SEO, PPC ads, and more. You’re out shopping with some friends when you get a notification that there’s a sale at your favorite store, so you run on over there to score some great deals. But have you heard of geofencing? Your order is ready for pick up!”.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Although the company created an incentive plan to boost sales, its sales growth fell from 19% before the recession to 8% after—five percentage points below Staples’ postrecession sales growth rate. The reputation of SEO was finally moving away from slimy and manipulative, and Moz both helped to ride that wave and to amplify it.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). This led me down a murky path into the world of SEO and digital marketing. Further to this I was always fascinated by just how bad most the SEO and digital marketing companies were.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. I think you’re giving generally good advice but there are other factors like SEO value of your name/domain, memorability, simplicity, etc. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though! Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Jobs: See more on our Job Board.

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Brand-Owned Terms: The Power—and Process—of Naming a Movement

ConversionXL

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” Identified a communication gap between customers and the sales and marketing teams as a primary pain point. More than just ‘Content Marketing.’”.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. The biggest deal I’ve ever done was a sale of a $100,000 website. I saw them for sale and checked out the traffic statistics.