Insights by Justin Downey

August 2011

Recruiting with Riddles

Recruiting top talent is critical. As a digital agency, JDM is always on the lookout for talented developers and designers, but when we started looking into doing our own recruiting, the noise from applicants was deafening. Leave it to Google, to find a better way.

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August 2011

Google’s New Extended Sitelinks

Coveted by Webmasters the world over, Google’s Sitelinks have recently gotten a lot of attention. With the new, extended sitelinks, search engine results pages offer almost a full scroll to sitelinks. This has left SEO-ers and webmasters scrambling to find out how to get sitelinks on their site.

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August 2011

Do I need a CMS?

A common question we get from clients is do I need a content management solution (CMS) to help manage my corporate website? As a rule of thumb, we suggest any website that will likely receive more than 4 updates per month needs to be on some sort of CMS. However, it’s a little more complicated than just that. Let’s dive into the PROs and CONs of investing in a CMS for your corporate website.

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August 2011

WordPress and the Top 1MM Websites

According to Wordpress news’ “State of the Word”, Wordpress has grown to power 14.7% of the top 1 million world-wide websites, up from 8.5%, and the latest data show 22 out of every 100 new active domains in the US are running a WordPress CMS.

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August 2011

How much should a website cost?

Allow me to suspend my JDM bias for a moment and see if I can break down how websites are priced and why. The short answer is, you always get what you pay for, but let’s dig a little deeper than that cop-out.

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August 2011

Online PR Distribution Tools Review

A few of JDM PR’s favorites are listed below along with price ranges, pros & cons, and our recommendations.

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August 2011

Nielsen Makes Comeback with Facebook

The Nielsen Company, who provides the media/advertising industry benchmarks for what customers are watching and buying, is quickly becoming obsolete in a world of DVRs, online advertising and social media. But, a company that’s nearly 100 years old isn’t going down without a fight. Through heavily publicized innovation initiatives, Nielsen is making a comeback. Not least of their efforts is a new partnership with social networking giant, Facebook, to offer a new rating service for online advertising campaigns.

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August 2011

Mobile Consumer Report Statistics

A new mobile consumer report by Experian Simmons, reveals some interesting information about what consumer habits influence mobile shopping trends and what marketers and eCommerce developers need to know to stay competitive.

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August 2011

How NOT to Choose a Digital Agency

I don’t know about you, but I often prefer to find out how NOT to do something than hear yet another recommendation. I’m sure you’re thinking we’re a bit bias (a post from a digital agency about how to choose a digital agency), but suspend your cynicism just long enough to read through a few …

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August 2011

What IS a Digital Agency?

I’ll grant you; the digital agency is a newer agency model. I get this question all the time and so I thought I’d offer up a short explanation of what, exactly, a digital agency is and how it’s different than more traditional agency models. Not that I’m a big fan of quoting Wikipedia, but here’s …

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July 2011

Selling Google +1 SEO Spam Already?!

Even before Google+ really kicks off, spammy sites are already looking to manipulate whatever influence +1’s have on a site’s rankings by selling them by the hundreds. Can the system be gamed so easily?

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July 2011

Roxanna Awards JDM Website Redesign

Independent oil and gas exploration company, Roxanna, and international investment firm, AllianceBernstein, have announced that JDM has won the bid to redesign the Roxanna website. The new site is currently in production. Stay tuned to our Recent Work feed for screenshots and features listing.

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