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Penguin 2.0 – Why I am not worried

Mike Allan — Sun, 19 May 2013 20:20:07 +0000

Matt Cutts announced a major algorithm change was coming soon. It has been dubbed Penguin 2.0 and news of it’s pending release whipped the SEO community into a lather about the effects of Penguin on their SEO efforts. Currently Penguin is a filter on link quality sitting atop of the Google ranking algorithm. This filter [...]

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Stop Calling it Content Marketing, it’s Search Marketing

Mike Allan — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 21:58:37 +0000

Content marketing joins SEO in the ranks of terms I do not like used to describe the industry I work in. I have already ranted about how I feel about the use of the term SEO. In the early days of the Internet we optimized for the search engines, but anyone still doing that in [...]

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Number one on Google isn’t always important

Mike Allan — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:35:54 +0000

Ranking number one on Google was the number one request I received when I was freelancing as a search marketing expert. 98% were relevant requests but the odd one would leave me shaking my head. Like the woman who owned a DJ service and asked me to get her a number one ranking for “Lady [...]

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Google’s Freemium Model is Alive and Kicking

Mike Allan — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:16:40 +0000

If your website is engaged in any sort of commerce; in other words your site exists to engage with consumers with the ultimate goal of a financial transaction, the Google Freemium Model is Alive and Kicking . What do I mean by this? Freemium is a term which means free at first but if you [...]

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Blogging Renaissance

Mike Allan — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:47:02 +0000

I’m hoping to experience a Blogging Renaissance. This blog has been operating at a reduced pace for some time now. I find I am struggling to post and write the posts I would like to be writing: informative posts that answer a question or solve a problem for my readers. It’s not as if I’m [...]

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Rocket Man TTC App for iOS Apple iPhone

Mike Allan — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:27:43 +0000

The Rocket Man TTC App was one of the first iOS apps I installed on my Apple iPhone 4S. I wanted an app which was similar in features to the Next TTC Apps for Android I was using. A lot of my co-workers with iPhones had installed this app and raved about it. The price [...]

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Another Apple App Review Blog

Mike Allan — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 02:38:24 +0000

My name is newmedia Mike and I am an App addict. My addiction began with my Blackberry and got intense with the Android. When I was on the Android platform I had over 100 apps on my device constantly. I also started blogging about and reviewing apps. Since joining the dark side of Apple, my fascination with [...]

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My apologies to my mobile visitors

Mike Allan — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:07:40 +0000

To my mobile visitors I apologize. I was not aware of the huge blank spaces that the AdSense plugin was generating until this week. This comes from using the Jetpack mobile theme. I have reverted to WPTouch and changed the style of AdSense banner so it is now more mobile friendly. it looks great on [...]

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Mobile Social Networking – Take 3

Mike Allan — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:45:52 +0000

I’m experimenting with mobile social networking again. I have joined the dark side and have acquired an iPhone, the ultimate mobile social networking tool. I attempted mobile social networking with my Blackberry but gave up as the experience was inferior. My Android was originally up to the task, although it was a bit of a kludge [...]

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Blog post 100 for newmediaMike

Mike Allan — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:34:23 +0000

Welcome to blog post #100 of newmediaMike. I wanted to do something different for a milestone post and thought a video blog would be a good idea. A good idea yes, but I forgot the work that goes into producing even a simple 2 minute piece. Especially when you are as rusty as I was. [...]

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