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September 19, 2016

#Hashtag Idiocy: #JustBecauseYouDon’tUnderstandItDoesn’tMeanYouShouldDoIt

Most of the time, when people drop hashtags all over their posts and tweets, like rabbits pooping in a garden, they are really saying: "I…

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September 15, 2016

Review of Google’s Possum Algo Update with Joy Hawkins

Local SEO rockstar, Joy Hawkins and I discuss Possum - the unfortunately named Google algo update impacting local SERP results.  While we have seen Possum…

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September 12, 2016

How to Generate Personal Injury Cases for About $100.

Alternate Title:  PPC Isn't Too Expensive - You're Just Doing it All Wrong I have a variation of this conversation with attorneys all the time:…

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September 2, 2016

SEO Ranking Upheaval

While there's no official word yet - SEO nerds around the world are chattering about two large algo updates happening right now.  And I've fielded…

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August 29, 2016

Google Review Penalty in the Works?

[caption id="attachment_2511" align="alignright" width="192"] Mike Blumenthal[/caption] Last week, we posted about the upcoming SEO penalty for obnoxious chat interstitials - this week, its a change…

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August 23, 2016

Google SEO Penalty for Chat Pop-ups Coming?

I've long ranted against many of the implementations of chat conversions - especially on mobile devices - in which the chat is so aggressive that…

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August 16, 2016

4 Google AdWords Tips You Should Implement Right Now

Mockingbird is one of the newest members in the Google’s Partner Acceleration Program (humble bragging found here). With this exciting new partnership comes exclusive training…

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August 8, 2016

SEO Traffic Generates 1 call per 30 visitors

This is a review of a Benchmarking study I conducted for the American Bar Association quantifies the question: How much business does SEO generate? This has…

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August 4, 2016

Announcing our Relationship with Google

[caption id="attachment_2419" align="alignright" width="300"] Mockingbird Nerds at Google getting advanced Adwords training.[/caption] We have a variety of partnerships, friendships and other assorted business relationships. I’ve…

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