The TMO Blog

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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Keeping Your Site Working When Changing WordPress Themes

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One of the greatest design benefits of using WordPress is how easy it can be to change themes completely. If you don't know what I mean by that, consider a time when you've gone to a WordPress blog you frequent and noticed a significant change…
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The 12 Best On-Page SEO Strategies [Infographic]

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Every time I read something about on-page SEO, it seems like the authors are always just beating a dead horse, or at least trying to teach that dead horse about meta tags and keyword density. Any SEO who has been around a little while knows…
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