The TMO Blog

Three Reasons You Shouldn’t Care About Rankings

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Anytime a new website owner starts looking for an SEO, they always want to get to that precious number one spot for searches on Google. It's hard not to want it, especially when quite a few people don't even scroll down the page when they search…
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Using Apps To Grow Your Facebook Audience

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Are you hoping to grow your business through Facebook? Chances are, if you're here, you are trying to do exactly that. It seems like everywhere you turn there are articles dispensing advice about what you should and should not be doing to gain…
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Google Explains “How Search Works”

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Google has been fighting spam with algorithms and manual penalties, but the best tool this whole time may have been information. Google has offered Webmaster Guidelines for ages now, but there has still been quite a bit of misinformation as…
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Mobile Design Trend Predictions For The Rest Of The Year

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Now, I know what you're thinking. "It's March! It's too late to be making predictions for 2013!" You're right, and I normally write off any list coming out at this point, but a full ebook analyzing what is coming up in web design trends should…
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Smashing Magazine Releases Typography “Starter Kit”

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Web designers can never have enough tools and kits for making their websites look great quickly. With the rise of typography, there are numerous kits coming out that help designers catch up to the huge advances in a robust area of design. In…
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Should You Just Start Over?

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Two years ago Google unleashed Panda onto the world, and SEO hasn't been the same since, especially when it comes to link building. Hundreds of thousands of sites have been penalized and some have made their way back to where they were, but…
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10 Infographics on Typography

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Typography is one of the most deceptively complex components of design imaginable. I mean, to the outsider, it is just arranging letters and picking fonts. The uninitiated have no idea about the complexities and the history of typography; they…
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What is SEO-Friendly URL Structure?

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Some people think that no matter what URL structure you have, search engines will be able to make complete sense of it and be able to index the site. While this is true, to an extent, they then use this idea to say that there is no such thing…
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Take Zappos For a Social Media Marketing Example

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You may have heard of Zappos, a web site known primarily for selling shoes. They recently revealed some of their online marketing strategy, including some successes and failures, that could be helpful to many businesses, both big and small,…
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