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WordPress Automatic Updates: Pros and Cons
Yesterday the WordPress dev team announced the 3.8.2 Security Release. Previously, when a WordPress update became available, I'd see the notification when I visited the dashboard of one of our websites. Sometimes, I might spot the announcement post (like the one I...
How Your SEO Might Actually Be Hurting You
The topic of how bad SEO can be for your business's website is so broad, we could probably start a regular recurring feature here about it. Come to think of it, we've written about businesses being Suckered by an SEO Company, why SEO should be a much lower priority...
Why Running a Contest to Grow Likes on Facebook Could Backfire
First of all: kudos to you for even thinking about doing this. The way I look at it, this means that you're exploring your options to improve your visibility on Facebook, which is a very good idea. Using a contest, giveaway or other mechanism that encourages people to...
How to Edit the Text on a Facebook Image Post
We've all done it. You find (or create) the perfect image... you upload it to Facebook... you write the perfect text to go along with it... and boom!, you publish it on your page. Sometimes it's instant. Sometimes it's hours later. But somewhere along the line, you...
Why You Don’t Need to Worry About Google’s Hummingbird Update
Ever since Google announced the "Hummingbird" update on its 15th birthday, the web marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) community has been all aflutter (pardon the pun) with speculation about what this massive overhaul to Google's search engine really means....
Why Mobile Matters for Small Business Marketing [Infographic]
For the last 2 years or so, we've been pounding the drum to anyone who will listen—which mainly means small businesses we train, our clients, and audiences I speak to—that you must be ready for mobile visitors. How can your small business website be ready for mobile...
Global Web Browser Market Share
Anyone marketing on the web must deal with the realities of how people view the world through their web browsers. I just published a piece on how Google Chrome took over the web browser market over at Epiphany Digest, complete with infographics. Enjoy!
How Much is a Facebook “Like” Worth to Your Business?
There's an enormous caveat to what I'm about to tell you. In the work we're doing with clients for whom we manage social media, as well as in the training we do for business owners and their teams to manage their own social media, there's one fact that we emphasize...
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