If Google was part of the animal kingdom, then I think Darwin would be proud.  Why?  Because Google has been constantly evolving ever since it first came out in 1998.  At Google, they have been trying to make their search engine better, more aware, and even give it more abilities then it ever had back …

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Here’s a question for you to ponder over.  Should link building be given importance in the coming years?  We all know that this question has been well asked, and asked many times for a while now.  Is link building truly dead, or is there still life in it, which would give SEOs a reason to continue …

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I’ve written posts here on Thrive, and I know that a decent number of these posts I’ve mentioned how mobile is on the rise and that as an marketer, you shouldn’t ignore it’s presence in this industry as a viable source of consumer outreach.  After all, smartphone users worldwide will total 1.75 billion in 2014. …

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I’m sure that when you have a website, you have had to do some level of testing on it, even just a little, such as what site format works best and what sort of content should I put on it.  Of course, those are very basic tests, but I think you get my point.  Testing …

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Google has recently decided to step up their campaign against sites using Flash, Adobe’s multimedia based web site technology.  Flash has for a while now been known to not be friendly towards spiders or mobile devices.  This is what has driven Google to come to a decision. Starting today, in an announcement by Google, warnings will be …

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What’s the first thing we see when we visit a website?  We see their header!  Now, even though headers are certainly important as a first impression, what can be just as important as a header? The footer!  This is the final message visitors will see when they come to your page. Sure, overall content is …

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We’ve come a long way in the realm of internet search.  It seems that when it comes to being able to connect in more and more places, we’ve grown at an exponential rate.  Remember the days of doing anything on the internet, so long as you were tied down to your desktop computer? Then along …

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Everybody knows how time intensive it can be to build up a site, and then maintain it.  It takes a lot of time, effort, and money to do all that.  With all that time and effort you put in to a website, all it takes is some bad SEO techniques to bring all that work …

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Many B2B businesses are quite familiar with the idea of database-driven website design.  As you have probably guessed, it’s because a good number of these companies are trying to sell products, and because of this, they need to have a digital catalog of these products on their websites.  But, it isn’t cost effective to manually …

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Are you a business owner?  I’m sure many of you are.  Those of you who do own your own business are doing your best to grow, to expand.  But be warned.  Business growth can be good.  But too much of anything, even something that is good, can turn ugly fast. As business owners and marketers, …

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