7 Sites Opting for Simple Web Designs

If 2015 was the year of anything, it was minimal Web design. Fueled by smartphone usage, more companies took advantage of the previous year’s trend toward larger images, less text and collapsed navigation, which more easily adapts to different screen sizes. Building on 2014, however, some creative brands added subtle animation rather than static images, while keeping everything else on the page (copy, calls to action, etc.) minimal. Below you’ll…

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5 SEO Basics Every Business Owner Should Know

Search Engine Optimization (or SEO for short) can seem a bewildering subject reserved for specialists and experts in the field. Indeed, sales teams of some agencies out there would prefer to keep it that way: having you believe that only they can help you attain good rankings in search engines justifies their bonuses and keeps them in a job.

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5 Link Building Lies

Rolling over to a new year is a trigger point for “this or that is dead” articles; you would think that Google only makes update at the end of the year the way articles start popping up. That being said, here are five link building tactics that will still work in 2016 unless Google does decide to actually make a year-end change, in which case, we will cover it here.

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SEO Fundamentals

In SEO Fundamentals of search engine optimization, few things have remained as consistently important as that of page-naming conventions and URL structures. In SEO fundamentals not only does the inclusion of keyword and keyword phrases provide information to the user about what they will find upon visiting, but they (apparently) carry a significant amount of weight in the virtual eyes of search engines as well – or so we’ve been told.…

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SEO: Quick Wins for the Holiday Season

E-commerce SEO comes with a unique set of challenges. Regularly changing product inventories, dynamic pages and duplicate content are just a few of the common headaches associated with large e-commerce stores. Today we are going to look at some tips for keeping your e-commerce store in optimal SEO shape as well as covering a few quick wins that may give you a boost this holiday season. 

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Google, Yahoo Back Together in Search Deal

Rivals Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) have come together under a deal revealed in October. The two battle in the search business, and according to the comScore’s rankings of desktop search for October, Google had a 63.9% market share, followed by Microsoft (MSFT) at 20.7% and Yahoo at 12.6%. Yahoo will now work with Google in addition to its existing partnership with Microsoft’s Bing. Let’s explore the details.

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