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Google is Burying the SEO Industry

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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SEO is Dead and Buried

I wrote the post, SEO is Dead, back in April. I still stand by that post… in fact, now more than ever. The purpose of the post wasn’t to attack search engine optimization as a viable online marketing strategy, the purpose was to drive marketers to move their focus away from the popular tactics associated with search engine optimization and towards improved content marketing efforts. For those of you that aren’t familiar with SEO strategies, optimizing a site is a combination of several strategies: Incorporating a content management system that … Continue reading →

SEO Is Dead

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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SEO is Dead

SEO is dead as we know it. The old math of increased backlinks and stuffing keywords is now a target for Google to identify your site and bury it in the search results. SEO is no longer a math problem, it’s a human one. Social indicators are becoming key to ranking and link algorithms are being retired. It’s time for you to see the truth about SEO… and adjust accordingly. Of course we utilized a nice baity title to attract some attention, but it’s time that someone stood up and … Continue reading →

Websites Can Run Scheduled Tasks with Cron

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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We have a number of redundant monitoring systems at work that regularly execute processes. Some run every minute, some once a night depending on what they are doing. For example, we might execute a script that exports all customers who haven’t made a purchase in 30 days to send them a coupon. Rather than trying to keep track of all of these by hand, it’s much easier to build jobs that are automatically scheduled and executed. On Unix-based systems, this is accomplished with Cron. For you folks that know what … Continue reading →