The TMO Blog

What is Your SEO Consultant Not Telling You?

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Any honest person working in SEO will tell you the industry has its fair share of problems. While many of these problems are a result of less than straight forward information from search engines about how their algorithms actually work, a…
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The “New” Design Trends of the Past Six Months

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We've reached the half-way point in the year, and more than a couple web design websites have started sharing their lists of trends for the year. But, most of these lists seem oddly familiar. Anyone keeping up with the blogs and news has already…
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Why Use SEO When You Already Rule Your Niche?

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When most people think of SEO, they see it as a way to earn the top spot (or close to it) on the search engine result pages (SERPs). Markets can be highly competitive, and if SEO can get you above others in your industry than most companies…
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Free Resources: Icon Grids For iOS7

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  Apple's keynote event earlier this month made news across the world, and few were impacted by the announcement of the new mobile operating system iOS7 more than designers and developers. While consumers will be receiving an updated…
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Google Revises Rankings Help Page To Demote Linkbuilding

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For those still pushing backlinks as the golden goose of SEO, a recent revision to Google's Ranking help guidelines could be potentially frightening. But, if you've been watching the changes in SEO over the past few years it shouldn't come as…
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The 50 Best Design Tools of the Past Year

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Tools, templates, plug-ins, and script libraries are all a huge part of web design. If we create absolutely everything from scratch, we often end up spending way more time than necessary to get the same results. We keep complete creative control,…
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The Top Search Result Gets a Third of All The Traffic

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If you've ever doubted the importance of SEO and high rankings, a new study from online ad network Chitika shows the higher the rankings, the more traffic sites get. And the differences are drastic. First place rankings pull in 33 percent of…
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What You Absolutely Need To Know About Responsive Design

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While you won't meet a web designer who doesn't know about responsive design, its still relatively new. According to Webdesigner Depot, the term was only coined three years ago by web designer Ethan Marcotte who writes for A List Apart. While…
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For Now, Stock Photography Won’t Hurt Your Rankings

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Depending on your skill set, a recent Webmaster video may be good or bad news to bloggers and site owners out there. Most people have never considered whether stock photography or original photography has any effect on search engine rankings.…
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