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Happy Birthday, America »
Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by Justin Seibert in DOM News | 1 Comment

Just a quick update to let everyone know we’ll be shutting down the super mega West Virginia SEO office o’ fun on Monday, July 5th to give a long weekend to our employees and families.  Heck, we’re going to even shut down the Cleveland office and let the Brits enjoy the day as well.  Everyone should get to say happy birthday to the United States.

May you have a great bbq-ing, star ball-shooting, corn hole-playing*, rip-roaring good time this weekend.  Just be sure to come back with all your fingers.

Happy Independence Day, everyone.

* Or ladder ball or horseshoes, or croquet, or lawn darts, or bocce, or badminton, or whatever your favorite lawn game happens to be.  If you’ve got a favorite, put it in the comments.

Lightning Fast: Reason #68 Why We Love PPC »
Posted on June 30th, 2010 by Justin Seibert in DOM News, Google Adwords, Paid Search, Search Engine Reputation Management, Search Engines | 2 Comments

Yesterday we received a pretty fun call from one of our clients who is the market leader in their field.  Not involving an uncommon situation, but definitely providing a nice break to the day that got our paid search team amped.

A pretty huge corporation ate up a quasi-competitor.  They put out a press release and got pretty decent coverage among blogs and more traditional news organizations.  They wanted to show up on searches by people who had heard the news and wanted to learn more.  No sweat sayeth we, but we posed a question:

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Never Ever Ever Dev Test a Site w/o Blocking Spiders »
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Justin Seibert in DOM News, Search Engines, Web Development | 1 Comment

I’m not a big believer in the words “never” or “always,” but am going to use it here like the Yeti in Monsters, Inc. “Rule #1 out here: Always…No, never go out in a blizzard.”

Since we’re now starting to build out our new WordPress site on a test server, we wanted to give you our Rule #1 out here.  Never put up a test (or dev) site without blocking it off from the search engines.  I know what you’re thinking – how would anyone ever find it – we’re not sending out an email to our newsletter list with the url.

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PPCBaby Introduces the New Pool Table »
Posted on June 21st, 2010 by Justin Seibert in DOM News | 1 Comment

We started doing phone interviews for our new SEM positions today and my favorite question so far was about our company culture.  Well, since our pool table was just delivered on Sunday, I figured it might be worthwhile to show the first game being played, courtesy of PPCBaby.

PPCBaby's Got First

Sorry for the poor photo quality.  Now it’s time to get back to figuring out this whole twitter Places thing.

Housekeeping Update »
Posted on June 16th, 2010 by Justin Seibert in Business Blogging, DOM News | 5 Comments

Does anyone else remember this show?

Since one of our readers emailed me today to heckle / question why we hadn’t posted in awhile, I thought it might be good to give everyone an update on what’s going on here in our little corner of the Ohio Valley with a housekeeping update:

• Generally, if we’re not blogging it’s because we’re swamped, and that’s the case again.  Which is beyond stupid for a variety of reasons that any business blogger would be able to recount off the top of her or his head.
• We’re hiring and looking for good folks who can help manage our clients’ accounts.  If you’re a PPC stud / studette or new and looking to get in the field, check it out.

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