Meetup’s founder on going from free to fee

Two quotes that jumped out at me from the WSJ’s recent interview with Meetup founder Scott Heiferman.  This on starting to charge … We went from free to fee five years ago; it was a bet-the-company moment. Everyone said we were crazy. At first we lost 90%...

SEO process map

We’ve added a search engine optimization flowchart to our site to capture the key steps in the SEO process we use with clients. This is a work in progress; please share any questions or suggestions you have. Thanks to our friend Jordan from Say It Visually! for...

SEO Flowchart & Process Map

Tweet While every search engine optimization project is different, we generally follow some version of the SEO process map below. NEW! Marketade now offers discount pricing on SEO and SEM packages for small businesses. Tweet

Link Building 101

Want your company’s website to rank higher on Google?  There are 2 main categories of search engine optimization: things you do on your website and things you do off your website. “On site” SEO focuses on creating keyword-rich content and optimizing “under the hood”...

Jill Whalen on how Google rewards bad SEO

I was thinking the other day how nice it would be if someday Google search results were free of sites trying to game the system with shady SEO techniques like keyword stuffing and link spam.  It would be better for just about everyone — users, businesses, and...