By Lisa Barone, from Search Engine Watch – Latest – http://bit.ly/1oUTWaz

Your website homepage! It’s often the first encounter visitors and potential customers have with your brand, yet, for some reason, it’s treated as the also-ran of your website. With so much attention devoted to interior, big-money pages like your Products, your Features, and your Resources, the average site homepage is either too cluttered to be effective or too barren for a customer to know what you actually do.…

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By Chris Lema – http://bit.ly/1zV6DqX

I was sitting at lunch across from a talented presenter himself when he asked the question, “Are you coming to the meetup tonight?”

The question made tons of sense because while I’m working in Washington DC for part of this week, my family is actually out here on vacation – a school field trip of sorts where my wife is doing even more amazing things educationally by bringing our kids to both New York City and Washington DC for a 12 day educational adventure.…

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By Derek S, from ‘Net Features – http://bit.ly/1swHD3J

As technology has advanced and new forms of communication have made their debut, there remains one hold-over that still presents companies with real, measureable value: phone calls.

Invoca, a call tracking and analytics provider, recently conducted a survey of search marketers and found that many marketers are undervaluing the importance placing phone numbers in search engine results.…

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By Lisa Barone, from Search Engine Watch – Latest – http://bit.ly/1uiAKlP

More and more clients are beginning to understand the benefits of content marketing. Sitting at the table, I’ve found I’m having a far easier time “selling” clients on the importance of creating that culture video, putting together that marketing ebook or using animation to tell stories in unique ways.…

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