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SEO Best Practices for Ethical Beginners

There are a few best practices to ethical SEO every webmaster should know. What astounds me is how many are overlooked or deprioritized. So, here’s JDM’s top five ethical SEO best practices every webmaster needs to know and love. 01. It Matters Who You Hang Out With Believe it or not, it matters who you …

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NoFollow Links Ruin PR for SEO

Things they are ‘a chang’n–particularly when it comes to using online press releases as an off-page SEO strategy. Looking at the metrics across the board online PR just isn’t generating the inbound links it once did. Could it be because of something called “nofollow links” and “pagerank bleed”? You bet!

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The “Counter-Slander” Campaign

Heard about BMW’s “Marketing Ambush?” In Santa Monica, California, Audi posted a billboard advertising their new car as a direct competitor to BMW’s. The billboard sported the smug headline: “Your Move BMW.” How did BMW respond? A “Counter-Slander” campaign.

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How to SEO for Bing?

JDM has discussed SEO best practices before in our articles, white papers and Shameless News blog. However the question comes up in conference call after conference call: “How is Bing different in terms of SEO?” Well, let’s go through a few things you can do to SEO for Bing–specifically.

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New Digital Agency Model

Although the technology is nothing particularly new, the new Modular Digital Agency model addresses the specific needs of small businesses like never before. Industry experts see it as a step in the right direction.

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HRmarketer’s 10th Anniversary

HRmarketer, the most widely used online marketing and PR service in the human resource marketplace, is celebrating their 10th year in business this October at the 14th annual HR Technology conference with a drawing to win one of two iPad 2s.

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GoToMeeting Goes Mobile

GoToMeeting is a web-meeting service that allows unlimited online meetings for up to 15 people for about $50/month. Recently, GoToMeeting has gone mobile publishing two mobile apps (one for Android and one for Apple’s iOS for iPhone). What do the nerds at JDM think? Read on.

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Stop Spam. Read Books.

reCAPTCHA (recently acquired by Google) is a free CAPTCHA service that webmasters are using to prevent comment and other form submission spam, but reCAPTCHA also helps digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. Bet you didn’t know that. I thought it was just there trying to annoy me. So wrong. A CAPTCHA is a …

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Say Hello to Sentric

Sentric, formerly Payroll Solutions, has just completed a full-on overhaul of their business structure culminating in a new name, new brand, new website and new attitude. A cooperative engagement between JDM and Pittsburgh-based ImageBox, the new Sentric went live today—just in time for their highest sales season.

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Top 5 Ways to Cut Printing Costs

Even to a digital agency like JDM, integrating online activities with off-line are still very important. The trouble with integration is the high per-unit cost of printing. We asked a printing vendor of ours, Allegra, for a few tips on how to keep printing costs down. Here’s their Top 5 Ways to Cut Printing Costs.

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Thank you Akismet!

Webmasters, take a serious look at Akismet. Lord knows, you don’t need spambots posting comments and pingbacks that can hurt your SEO and credibility.

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TM’s New CEO Revives the Agency

TM, a Dallas-based advertising agency, had been in something of a funk, having lost marquee clients like Nationwide and loosing their CEO, Tom Hansen, to wheeled-shoe company Heelys. In the spring of 2010, Becca Weigman took the reigns with a goal of turning around the shaky agency.

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