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Social Media & Craft Beer – How It’s Changing The Way We Drink

In the past few years social media and craft brewing have seen a huge increase in both attention and use. Social media is allowing companies and customers to connect in a new, non traditional way. Which allows for very direct and almost instantaneous exchange of information that both sides love and it’s free. As such it seems fitting that Craft Brewers, Micro Brewers, Nano Brewers, etc.
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Writing a Blog: Tips on Blogging

Most likely if you are here reading this blog, you’ll surely know how to describe a blog, but a lot of us are at different levels of understanding and learning. So, if you give…
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5 Reasons Why I’m Pumped for the SEOmoz PRO Training Series

We’re not shy about our love for SEOmoz, and this devotion culminates at the annual SEOmoz PRO Training Series in Seattle next week. I went last year, and it was THE most valuable conference I have ever attended, and I’ve spent the last 300 something days anxiously awaiting the end of this August. There are many things that make it oh-so-amazing, but I’ve pulled together a short list of reasons why I am super pumped for two days of mind blowing.
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Lead Tracking: Setting up Google Analytics for Smart Tracking of Form Submits

We’ve all faced the question of whether an online campaign is "really" working. Or, another version of the same question is "What is the campaign’s ROI?" With the exception of ecommerce sites, most companies determine whether or not a campaign is working (or ROI) based on how many leads are generated. By "leads," I mean phone calls or form submisssions.

We get this question enough that I’m going to devote several posts to how to track non-ecommerce leads. In this post I’ll focus on form submissions.
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Facebook SEO: Optimizing your Facebook Fan Page for Ultimate Search Engine Visibility

So you created your business’ Facebook fan page. What now? How do you market it? What’s the next step? Although Facebook features, like News Feed stories, invitations, and page suggestions all help spread the word on your fan page to users around Facebook, sometimes these tools just aren’t enough. Optimizing your fan page for the search engines can help attract more fans, aid in online reputation management, and also increase brand awareness. Here are a few obvious and not-so-obvious ways that you can tweak your page to get maximum visibility in the search engines.
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Ready to rumble: Thunder SEO gets a new look

If you haven’t yet noticed, we have a new website! Website redesigns are a long process, and many times they aren’t done for the right reasons. Most people do it for aesthetic purposes because they get bored with the look of their old site. That’s not always a good reason to do a redesign. We took it much further than an aesthetic update and upgraded our architecture, CMS, look and functionality.
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Website in Review: What to optimize on a local website

We spend a lot of time doing local search, and have worked with countless web developers and varying types of websites. We find ourselves asking developers the same things over and over again. We recently came up with a Local Search Site Overview Checklist to pass on to clients and developer friends so they know all of the items we require before we start working with them. This saves both us and our clients a lot of headache when starting a local search campaign.
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Stickybits – The Newest Addition to Your Social Media Tool Box

Internet Week 2010 is in full swing in New York City and Pepsi Co, wanting to show their social media and internet savvy, will be hiding videos, pictures and links on the UPC bar codes of their products. Users can take pictures of the bar codes using a smartphone app, view the content and then have the ability to tag their own content on to the bar code. After they tag their own video to the bar code, who ever scans it next will see their content as well the original content.
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Music & Social Media Collide to Create Euphoria: A View from Inside SXSW

As South by Southwest draws to a close leaving a plethora of leather clad music lovers and tech geeks stepping onto planes off to their various homes miles away from Austin, Texas, I am left to digest what I have encountered over the past seven days. From the interactive conference that was held March 12-16, onto the music and film portion that continued until the 21st, I have been to countless parties, panels and shows.
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Website once-over – 5 red flags that scream “I’m going to give you SEO nightmares!”

Watch out for these red flags () when starting SEO for a new website. Certain problems can give you SEO nightmares, but not-to-worry, as most of the problems have fairly straightforward solutions.
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