Marketing & SEO

Organic Versus Artificial Link Building

Nicola Hebert | August 23rd, 2010 | Marketing & SEO, Nicola Featured

In SEO terms, a big deal is made of the practice of building links. This is because the major search engines view each link as being an indication of the quality of your page. The more links a page has the more beneficial it is viewed as being and the greater the perceived value of a link, the better your results will prove to be. However search engines also attempt to ignore or devalue those links that they believe have been gathered artificially, preferring to see organically or naturally gifted links.
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Call to Action, what is that?

Nicola Hebert | July 25th, 2010 | Marketing & SEO, Nicola Featured

Call to action buttons are sometimes taken for granted. However, when they are used well can be huge money makers.

On an interview I did once I was asked about Call-to-Action buttons. What my thoughts were and what I take into consideration when creating them. Up until that point I didn’t really understand what he meant. At that time I put as much thought into the call to actions as it took to make a button pretty and visually appealing. If I am not mistaken I told him some gibberish about color. Since then I have done a lot more reading and have gained a much better understanding for what he was asking me.
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