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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

For us, the opportunity is not about taking market share from other players, it’s really about expanding the awareness of online work and hiring these virtual global teams as an alternative to traditional way of recruiting or building a company,” he said. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Rather than depending just on SEO, marketers will need to optimize picture sitemaps and employ descriptive filenames for photos that are identified by search engines. In 2022, savvy digital marketers will keep an eye on both voice and visual search, and optimize their SEO for both. The value of image alt-text is growing exponentially.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Next: : If you’re gonna go global, plan it from the start. Think global, start early. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is an Ukranian immigrant, and I’m betting it had helped him realize the potential of going global from day one. ASO (Appstore Search Optimization) for apps plays a similar role to SEO for websites. The Result?

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The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It!

Occam's Razor

Even if you work in a multi-headed hydra called "global corporation." Here's my process for doing that… ~ Visit www.google.com (or Baidu in China, Yandex in Russia etc). Things that might hinder SEO. But there are two prerequisites: 1. But don't do it now. How clean is the link structure?

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

You start to see weird things like Russia and India are the same. Let's go back to our table, and global oil consumption. If you were an SEO, or ran all Ecommerce for your company, or were responsible for consumer experience? We started with a table, global oil consumption, let's end with a table too.

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