If you work in the search engine optimization sector, you’ve probably heard too many times that ‘link-building is dead’. Well, yes and no.
Yes, because links alone won’t get you far these days. Search engines are constantly updating their algorithm; weeding out unnatural links or penalizing sites with spammy content. In fact, Google’s recent Phantom Update affected both small and large websites as it targeted thin, overused, and duplicated content.
No, because links are still the lifeblood of SEO and ...

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You setup your social media accounts, maybe Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, but it’s been a few weeks or even years since you’ve touched the accounts. This happens far too often with small businesses. The problem is that even when stores implement decent social strategies it’s tough to improve sales, or at least track whether sales are occurring through social media.
Around 85 percent of social/ecommerce orders come from Facebook.
What does this say? Well, to start, this is talking about ...

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You can grow your blog in two ways:

1. Get more traffic.
2. Do more with the traffic you have.
In my opinion, you should do both even though most people focus on the first option.
Those bloggers don’t realize they’re losing a large chunk of their traffic before it even has a chance to convert.
One of the best ways to see how well you’re using your traffic is to look at your bounce rate.
The average bounce ...

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It doesn’t seem like it would be all that difficult, to rank for your name in Google or any of the other search engines, but it can be a lot harder than you think. You and your business could pop up—but it might not.
Ranking highly in Google is difficult, even when it’s your own name. You might think your name is pretty special, but with over 7 billion people in the world — it’s very likely a few ...

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Why should you bother a lot about traffic from Social Media?
Based on Statista data, revealed in March 2015, these are the approximate numbers of active users in different social media networks:

Facebook – 1,415,000,000
LinkedIn – 347,000,000
Google+ – 300,000,000
Twitter – 288,000,000

Tremendous numbers! Just to compare: The population of USA is something like 300,000,000. And all of these social media users are there, just on the other side of your screen!
There was ...

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Remember the age old adage, keep your friends close but, your enemies closer? In the world of digital marketing and search engine optimization, there is no one closer to you in search rankings than your competitors. So why do business’ often overlook this step and jump right to building strategy? There is a wealth of information and competitive advantage that can be gained from finding and analyzing your competitors. When it comes to a thorough search engine optimization ...

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Remarketing is a powerful tool for anyone using Google Adwords to drum up more business. It’s often under utilized and today I will be sharing some tips on how you could be doing it better.

1: Dynamic Remarketing For All Verticals:
Dynamic remarketing ads generally have a much higher success rate than static ads. You create a custom feed and upload it (Google has tutorials for this).Then you will be able to choose from a good amount ...

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To predict how diet shapes a person’s gut microbiome, researchers came up with a new way to categorize foods.

An incense burner from a century tested positive for a chemical that’s released when THC is burned.

Urban infants who spend their first year of life around microbes like those found on farms are less likely to develop asthma.

Wolves lack the facial muscles required to raise their eyebrows—a feature that makes dogs especially endearing to people.

Around the world, aging and inadequate water systems are a huge public health problem. Now, researchers are using artificial intelligence to help conserve and monitor the quality of drinking water.

Accelerating ice melt in the Himalayas may imperil up to a billion people in South Asia who rely on glacier runoff for drinking water and more.

Altruism is alive and well. So is the desire to protect one’s self-image.

The famous desert geoglyphs appear to show birds that occur in Peru’s forests and coastal areas.

At the core of quantum computing is the qubit. The best ones have a few defining traits, and scientists are looking to everything from lasers to Russian diamonds to help refine the best qubits for the next generation of quantum computing.

A bacterial “probiotic” may enhance athletic performance. But it’s a long way from being ready for use in humans.

In the late 1970s, a harbor seal named Hoover began catcalling passersby at the New England Aquarium in a thick Maine accent. A new study confirms seals’ uncanny ability to copy human speech.

A new study suggests a half-ton bird roamed Europe nearly 2 million years ago, around when our Homo predecessors were first entering the region.

A new study reveals that some European Neanderthals might have displaced their relatives in Siberia, while others mingled with another, still mysterious, ancient human population.

Octopuses “think” with neurons so distributed throughout their bodies that sometimes the left hand literally doesn’t know what the…left hand is doing.

In Côte d’Ivoire, employees at Fairtrade-certified cocoa cooperatives have higher salaries and better working conditions than those at non-certified organizations. Farm laborers, on the other hand, don’t fare as well.

Two research teams went into the weeds to quantify the magic behind the flight of the dandelion seed.

Freezing soap bubbles look like snow globes. This whimsical effect could help us improve biological freezing techniques—and is incredibly fun to watch.

A study finds that close to a trillion trees could potentially be planted on Earth—enough to sequester more than 200 billion tons of carbon. But environmental change on this scale is no easy task.

Good news for bugs that weigh less than a sesame seed.

How “change blindness” prevents you from seeing this 10 of clubs turn into an ace of spades.

Deep sleep and REM sleep could be universal among vertebrates, stretching 450 million years back in evolutionary time.

A swine virus that appeared in the U.S. in 2013 has proven hard to track. But an algorithm might help researchers predict the next outbreak.

A new analysis of a skull found in Greece decades ago suggests that early humans may have been in Eurasia as early as 210,000 years ago.

A chicken-sized raptor relative adds credence to the idea that flight evolved multiple times among ground-faring dinosaurs.

The breakthrough suggests that bots can navigate complex games involving multiple stakeholders and hidden information—situations that better approximate the real world than two-player board games.

Quantum physics impacts the technology students use every day. Use these resources from NOVA broadcasts, NOVA Digital, and What the Physics!? to introduce quantum concepts to your classroom.

Human-made shields that block UV rays and concentrate heat on the Martian surface could provide both liquid water and protection from radiation.

Neutron star innards are not your mom’s lasagna.

Girls are great at math. But if they’re even better at reading, they might be more motivated to choose a humanities-focused career.

Researchers are developing robots that use AI to read emotions and social cues, making them better at interacting with humans. Are they a solution to labor shortages in fields like health care and education, a threat to human workers, or both?

There are a heck of a lot of reasons not to.

A new fossil find may help pinpoint the origins of mammals’ uber-flexible hyoid bone, which anchors the tongue and gives us our signature swallowing style.

The new material could have applications in robotics and medicine.

Killing red tide cells en masse can unleash their potent toxin. That means researchers need to get creative.

Even while still in their eggs, baby birds can hear their parents’ alarm calls. They then pass the message along to unhatched siblings so the entire clutch emerges aware of the dangers ahead.

A new analysis pinpoints some of the most ancient stars in our galaxy—and tells the story of the Milky Way’s ravenous past.

A sobering analysis suggests that animal species aren’t adapting fast enough to maintain their numbers in the face of rising temperatures.

Combining two insect-control techniques, researchers largely prevented reproduction in a mosquito species known to carry Zika, dengue, and yellow fever.

Under extreme conditions, a human can produce more than three gallons of sweat in a single day.

PBS leads the list with 47 nominations.

Researchers have built a prosthesis that enabled a man who lost his hand to text, pluck grapes from their stems, and stuff a pillow into its case.

The border collie achieved international fame for her remarkable grasp on vocabulary and sentence structure.

Physicists built a machine that might help explain how solar wind forms—all without leaving Earth’s atmosphere.