Characters are the backbone of games. After an overabundance of consoles and excess of terrible titles brought most of the industry to the brink of collapse in ’83, it rose from the ashes with the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainment System and protagonists like the now iconic Mario. Super Mario Bros. designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka created […]
A study published by Microsoft aims to identify the most important trends in marketing for the 2020s. The study contains a section on trends in marketing skills, with lists of the most important skills for marketers over the next decade. At the top of the list of important hard skills is search engine optimization. Data from the […]
SEO does not work in a vacuum. It requires many moving parts working in the right context in order to create a holistic, effective marketing strategy that gets results for your business. From audience, to the user, to final conversions, SEO involves executing the right moving parts in the correct context and in the correct […]
Which search engine optimization (SEO) mistakes appear most often on websites? To find out, SEMRush used its site audit tool to collect anonymous data on 100,000 websites and 450 million webpages. The researchers examined how each site and each page performed in terms of search crawlability, technical SEO, and on-page SEO. As part of the analysis, the researchers assigned each […]
HIGHLIGHTS Obama’s tweet garnered 2.8 million ‘likes’ This tweet is also the fourth most-retweeted post ever Obama (@BarackObama) has 93.3 million followers Former US President Barack Obama’s tweet in response to the deadly violence in the Charlottesville, Virginia rally garnered 2.8 million ‘likes,’ making it the most-approved post in the Twitter’s history. Obama’s tweet that he posted […]
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I’ve talked with hundreds of business owners, entrepreneurs and marketing managers prior to launching SEO campaigns for their business. From Fortune 500 brands to local dentists, doctors, plumbers and accountants, I’ve fielded questions from people in many different industries. I’ve been amazed at the common misconceptions that I continuously hear about search engine optimization. My job is […]
Major technology platforms shift every 10-15 years, with new platforms building on the ones they preceded. The PC was the platform of the early-1980s, then the internet came in the mid-1990s to improve the functionality and connectedness of PCs, then the smartphone emerged in the mid-2000s to put an internet-connected PC in everyone’s pocket. We’re […]
Everyone wants to get a high click-through rate and a good spot in Google’s search algorithm. But, when it is generally accepted in the industry that Google uses approximately 200 ranking factors to rank websites — and some of these are proven, some are controversial and some are purely nerd-based conjecture — it can be hard to know which factors […]
The graveyard of technology is riddled with failed products: remember the Apple Newton? Or Microsoft’s Zune? How about Amazon’s Fire Phone? And yet in Silicon Valley “failing fast” is heralded as a virtue and, sometimes, even failing slowly can have unforeseeable benefits. Cutting-edge products may die an embarrassing death, but they often also lay the […]