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Smush.it Is My New Favorite #WordPress Plugin - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. Smushit Is My New Favorite #WordPress Plugin. August 18, 2014. Is my new favorite WordPress plugin. Sure it may not be as awesome as Joost de Valk’s WordPress SEO plugin. But it solves a massive problem in a very simple manner. It executes lossless compression on any image uploaded to your WordPress Media Library. What is lossless compression and why should I care? To help webmasters identify problems areas causing slow load times. Last week I searche...
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Clients - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. My clients range from executive recruiters, jewelers, tech companies, professional service providers and entertainment websites. If you need qualified leads and more organic traffic to your website it is time you joined our list of SEO clients today. Below are just a few clients I am permitted to reveal. A few have engaged me directly, or through the agency I work for and a couple were from an in-house tour of duty. Social Web Applications Japan.
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Google's Stance on Guest #Blogging Flies in the Face of the Purpose of the Internet - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. Google’s Stance on Guest #Blogging Flies in the Face of the Purpose of the Internet. January 23, 2014. Good old Google and Matt Cutts. Have finally gone after guest blogging. They claim it is SPAMMY and is dead. Cutts was coy on the outcome of a guest blogging link back to your site; will your site be penalized or will the link have zero value. However, he was pretty clear about Google’s position:. If Google does penalize a site for guest blogging it ...
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Blogging Archives - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. Smushit Is My New Favorite #WordPress Plugin. August 18, 2014. May 3, 2016. By Garth O'Brien. Is my new favorite WordPress plugin. Sure it may not be as awesome as Joost de Valk’s WordPress SEO plugin. But it solves a massive problem in a very simple manner. It executes lossless compression on any image uploaded to your WordPress Media Library. Google’s Stance on Guest #Blogging Flies in the Face of the Purpose of the Internet. January 23, 2014. 8221;...
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. Smushit Is My New Favorite #WordPress Plugin. August 18, 2014. May 3, 2016. By Garth O'Brien. Is my new favorite WordPress plugin. Sure it may not be as awesome as Joost de Valk’s WordPress SEO plugin. But it solves a massive problem in a very simple manner. It executes lossless compression on any image uploaded to your WordPress Media Library. What is lossless compression and why should I care? Last week I searched again for this magnificent digital ...
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The Rel Canonical Tag is Not The Solution to Every Known URL Problem - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. The Rel Canonical Tag is Not The Solution to Every Known URL Problem. March 23, 2012. When Google, Yahoo! Joined forces and endorsed the rel=canonical tag. Having the exact or very similar content on multiple URLs will trigger a duplicate content penalty. The above example of URLs highlight the SPAMMY way of duplicating content. Often times duplicate content issues are caused by a CMS that is running amok. Below is an example of a CMS crea...Every dup...
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SEO Archives - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. Andrew Martineau: An Interview With an #SEO. January 8, 2014. August 10, 2014. By Garth O'Brien. Is an excellent SEO, and I have worked with Andrew for the past couple of years and he is situated at our headquarters in Boston. Andrew recently published a Click-Through Rate study. 3 Client Management Tips When Starting Your SEO Engagement. January 6, 2014. January 7, 2014. By Garth O'Brien. January 3, 2014. March 27, 2014. By Garth O'Brien. Usually SEO...
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Andrew Martineau: An Interview With an #SEO - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. Andrew Martineau: An Interview With an #SEO. January 8, 2014. Is an excellent SEO, and I have worked with Andrew for the past couple of years and he is situated at our headquarters in Boston. Andrew recently published a Click-Through Rate study. How and why did you choose to become an SEO professional? To stay current in SEO, you must constantly be active in the community, whether that be simply reading blogs from other industry experts, or testing th...
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Featured Articles Archives - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. 6 Mobile Website Design Hints for an Optimized User Experience. January 4, 2012. August 12, 2014. By Garth O'Brien. Releases the 10 Top Searches for 2011. December 1, 2011. August 12, 2014. By Garth O'Brien. Presenting SEO Training at Tech-Ed North America 2011. May 10, 2011. August 17, 2015. By Garth O'Brien. Tech-Ed North America 2011. Yes, I am a Microsoft employee acting as a Community Program Manager for the MVP Award Program. May 10, 2011. Today...
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Social Media Archives - Garth O'Brien
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Digital Marketing – SEO, Social Media and Engagement. Avoid This Huge #Brand Management Mistake With Social Media Profiles. August 11, 2014. August 12, 2014. By Garth O'Brien. I constantly run into this massive brand management mistake involving Social Media profiles; they forget to claim the profile’s custom URL. When you forget to claim the Social Media profile custom URL, but spend millions of dollars promoting your new tagline or product name you can end up in trouble. March 27, 2012. August 17, 2015.
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