On November 14, 2015 Snapchat featured a story that may possibly be the saddest and most moving the social media platform has seen since its existence. Titled “Pray for Paris”, the story proceeded to show videos and still shots of the ongoing effects of the tragedy that occurred
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On Friday, November 13, 2015, just a matter of hours ago, there was a tragic terror attack in Paris France. The Wikipedia page was created almost immediately. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected. Snapchat introduced a “Pray for Paris” Filter, aka #PrayForParis. This is what
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On November 10, 2015 death threats were made on Yik Yak and an alert was issued on Mizzou’s emergency information center. This is nothing new and we maintain a long list of Yik Yak arrests here. Typically, college students make these threats, thinking they are anonymous. But,
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Every day I run into companies that do not need SEO. If you know of a business that does not need SEO please feel free to comment at the bottom of this article. I will also be updating this list whenever I bump into a company that
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Chances are if you love a man with a beard, you went crazy over last weekend’s Snapchat story titled “Beards and Mustaches” that took place in Manhattan, NYC and followed the 2015 National Beard and Moustache Championships. The story took place on Sunday, November 8 and began
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As we predicted in September 2015, Snapchat has officially confirmed to the Financial Times that they are getting 6 Billion video views daily. With more and more smart devices at people’s fingertips and access to high speed Internet increasing, video content will continue to become more popular.
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On November 7, 2015 Snapchat featured a story that followed the annual BlizzCon that took place within the Anaheim Convention Center, one of the largest of its kind put on throughout the nation. Titled “BlizzCon 2015”, the Snapchat story began with an opening statement, “Come to BlizzCon,
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Whether you’re giving your employees the Holidays off or forcing them to deal with psychopaths on Thanksgiving Day (or just going fishing) you can now specify your holiday hours in Google My Business (or more often referred to as Google Maps). Google announced the feature 11/6/2015. As
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Most of this website’s blog content consists of outstanding content marketing information and SEO tips. Today, however, I have an article for the business category. When I sold my last business I was interest in E-waste / electronics scrap. I don’t know why. I’ve always been interested
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The title of the consumer at the highest level of a food chain is an apex predator, also referred to as an alpha predator, top predator, or top-level predator. A food chain simply shows how living things get food, so there are many different types of food
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Alphabet, formerly known as Google, is an artificial intelligence (AI) company. I have informed my clients of this for many years. I also mention this in this article back in July 2015 regarding creating unique and valuable content: Can I cut and paste articles on my own
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As society becomes ever more sophisticated, the urge to be part of a tribal community grows more powerful. Modern Westerners go to great lengths, putting plugs in their ears, getting tribal tattoo bands, or doing all sorts of disgusting things to their bodies to stand apart together.
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Sports sites are fun to do for a lot of reasons. I my case, I run an unnamed basketball site and I have learned a lot about how to do it over the life of the site. My site is dedicated to one specific college team, but
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On November 1, 2015 Snapchat featured a story that followed the entire event of what was one of the biggest marathon and running events throughout the entire world. Titled “TCS NYC Marathon”, the Snapchat story began with an opening statement that said, “Lace up for the world’s
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Contextual links matter. Lots of people spend an awful lot of time worrying about links. Some are more concerned about the anchor text, some spend more time worrying about the number of links on a page, if the link is at the top or bottom, or the
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On Saturday October 31, 2015 Snapchat featured a story in honor of the spooky, freaky and oh-so-creepy haunted houses being frequented by hundreds of visitors across the United States. The story was ironically titled, “Haunted Houses” and opened with a Snapchat geofilter that stated, “Are you brave
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Managing a local business on Yahoo has long been a disaster. First business owner’s reviews disappeared, then business owners who attempt to manage their free listing are deceptively presented with a $29/mo Yext subscription with the free listing login area hidden and frequently changing locations. As of
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I am a big WordPress fan. Isn’t everyone? But… There are few things on this Earth more frustrating than a WordPress site that is broken. Each time I discover a problem with a custom theme I will add it to the list below. Why are WordPress Sites
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October 31st is right around the corner. You know what that means…… Vanilla Ice’s Birthday is here! image credit (and yes he is performing in 2015 in TX) That, and, it’s Halloween! Should you create content around Halloween? Not everyone needs to…. If you do, make sure
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So finally as of 2015 there are lots of SEO people and social media gurus out there from newbie to the seasoned and they all sort of get how content affects SEO, or they at least realize that it plays a role somehow. Now that they have
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