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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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Google +1 Button SEO Data

On March 3th, Google launched “+1” as a way to challenge Facebook’s Cross-web “Like” button and how Bing has chosen to use Facebook “Likes” in their search results. The idea is pretty simple. Content recommended by friends and acquaintance is likely more relevant than content from strangers. For example, a Transformers movie review from an …

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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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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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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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Function as Beautiful as Form

After some recent research, it comes to my attention that with all of the new innovations in website design, some designers still refuse to see the point of common best practices. You are not the first designer to want to put the navigation in the bottom corner in a circle configuration. Fight the urge.

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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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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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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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CFO Compensation Report Published

In association with JDM Digital and MyCFOnetwork, a new 2011 Financial Executive Compensation report has been published. According to the report more than half of U.S. Financial Executives of privately held companies received a salary increase this year. However, the report details how public company CFOs continue to receive salaries 45% more than their privately …

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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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Web Tech Trends 2012

Early this year, HTML5 began to come of age. CSS3 matured alongside widespread adoption of the @font-face selector and the release of Rails 3.0 (which is partly what our Central enterprise project manager runs on). Clearly, it was a busy year for advanced web technologies. What web technology trends are on the horizon for 2012? …

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