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• Bing Giving it Everything They Have

• Posted: 01/21/2016
• Bing refuses to leave the spot light in the beginning of 2016. With the impressive improvements this company made with a failing search engine last year, they, for the first time saw revenue. With more and more users switching to Bing, the company is still trying to make the company
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• AOL Now Using Bing Search Results and Ads

• Posted: 01/05/2016
• Bing is still trying to stay in the spotlight as the new year 2016 rolls in. It was announced last year but went into effect over the weekend that Bing’s search results and ads are now being used for the AOL search engine. Bing itself has already broke the 20%
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• 2015 SEO Year End Review

• Posted: 12/30/2015
• The year 2015 is coming to a close, and it has been an interesting year. With technology advancing on a very fast pace scale it was only natural that the search engine industry take advantage of this fact. Some of the most interesting SEO news and events were caused by
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• Bing No Longer a Money Pit and Google Being Chipped Away

• Posted: 12/28/2015
• Back in 2011 Bing was Microsoft biggest money hole, which was losing the Redmond company 1 Billion in capital per quarter. Many at the time was suggesting that it would be best to either sell the search engine or to just kill it off. The new CEO over Microsoft, Satya
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• FaceBook stepping on Yelps Feet

• Posted: 12/22/2015
• When it comes to local businesses one must do more than just traditional SEO. This is because you need to get your brick and mortar business also ranked within local results. Reviews and reputation will also play a large factor on the amount of foot traffic your establishment gets each
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• A Look into Blackwood Productions

• Posted: 12/18/2015
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  Blackwood Productions has been pioneering the SEO industry going on 13 years. One of the things that make us different is that the core people that started this amazing adventure are the ones still at the helm. Over the last 13 years we have been able to watch the
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• Blackwood Production a look at us

• Posted: 12/18/2015
• Blackwood Productions has been pioneering the SEO industry going on 13 years. One of the things that make us different is that the core people that started this amazing adventure are the ones still at the helm. Over the last 13 years we have been able to watch the trends
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• Google AI RankBrain Integrated into Core Search Algorithm

• Posted: 12/15/2015
•      With a lot of talk centering around Bing and the company, Microsoft, of late, Google was not to be left behind. Whether you have realized it or not the search has been a little different. This is because Google built an A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) and have integrated it into
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• The Way People Search is Changing

• Posted: 12/14/2015
• Artificial Intelligence is changing the way people search. Apple has Siri, Google has Google Now, and Windows has Cortana. Recently Cortana was also opened up to those on Apple and Google devices as well, even though it is not as deeply rooted as if on its native network.  However, the
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• What Does the Rise of Smartphone Users Mean to business

• Posted: 12/11/2015
• Mobile devices such as smartphones are becoming cheaper than ever thus allowing more of the general public to get their hands on them. What does that mean for businesses? With many of the phones now relying on GPS for many different apps, it means that location marketing is just as
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• Google Releases Top Held Secret

• Posted: 12/07/2015
• Well if you have been looking into or researching SEO for longer than a week you have probably heard that last week Google released the Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines Handbook. This handbook has always been a secret that was held close to Google’s vest. Given only to the human quality
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• Part 4 of the 6 SEO Basics Back Links

• Posted: 11/13/2015
• In this mini-series of SEO basics we have discussed some important aspects of SEO. We discussed how content is one of the most important parts of a good SEO service. If content is the most important, then back links or links from other sites pointing to your site are the
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• Part 3 of 6 SEO Basics Website Content

• Posted: 11/03/2015
• For years you may have heard SEO services say things such as, CONTENT IS KING. Although many SEO companies will do anything to make a dollar as they play the numbers and try to have a new client to take place of the ones they know will quit, even they
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• Part 2 of 6 SEO Basics Meta Tags

• Posted: 10/20/2015
• One thing that some accidently overlook and others no longer believe in is still very much a part of a solid SEO effort. What is it that quite a few people do not implement but to some is still considered to be a completely viable SEO tactic? Meta Tags.
   
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• part 1of 6 SEO Basics Keywords

• Posted: 10/19/2015
• Online marketing is very important to any business. However, before you can just start implementing SEO work on a site, you must first do a little bit of research. This step is probably considered the most important step in SEO, choosing keywords.
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• Is Bing Becoming a Viable Search Engine

• Posted: 10/14/2015
• For many years Google was pretty much the one and only search engine that webmasters and SEO’s alike targeting for their campaigns. Although most if not all webmasters and SEO’s still target Google the winds are changing. At least a little bit.
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• Effects of Social Media on Organic Search Results

• Posted: 09/29/2015
• So you been working really hard on your digital marketing campaign for your online businesses website. You have gotten some great links now pointing to your site as well as developed some really good unique content. You even found the best SEO program out there at Blackwood Productions. So, what
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• Why is your SEO strategy failing

• Posted: 09/21/2015
• Why is your SEO strategy failing?
  
  Link Building
  Not long ago Google put much ranking power on those sites that had the most inbound linking. So all a person had to do was join as many link farms and linking partner programs to be able to shoot their websites
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• Blackwood Productions Rolls Out Updated WordPress Plugin

• Posted: 09/09/2015
• It is no secret that blogs have been and still are great for your SEO strategy.  So, it comes to no surprise that if used correctly WordPress is a good platform to build on. Because of this, many businesses use WordPress for its ease of use in editing
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• Google Tweets and Bing breaks 20 percent search share

• Posted: 09/01/2015
• Back in February Google and Twitter hashed out a deal that would again start showing live tweets within the search results. This time however Google does not need to crawl the Twitter database for updates. Instead it will have access to the Twitter live feeds so that the results can
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• Do You Know Which is the 2nd Largest Search Engine

• Posted: 08/21/2015
• We all know and understand what SEO is and how gaining ranks in the search engines effect our bottom dollar. But, many people skip over the second largest search engine in the World because they see it as a form of entertainment or for the kids, instead of the mega
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• Do You Know Which is the 2nd Largest Search Engine

• Posted: 08/21/2015
• We all know and understand what SEO is and how gaining ranks in the search engines effect our bottom dollar. But, many people skip over the second largest search engine in the World because they see it as a form of entertainment or for the kids, instead of the mega
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• Posted: 08/14/2015
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• Blackwood Productions Rolls Out New Dashboard

• Posted: 08/14/2015
• It has been exciting times around the offices of Blackwood Productions. We have been ramping up several major projects. But, for this post the spotlight is on our new User Account Dashboard.
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• Google Update to Rank by Facts

• Posted: 07/12/2015
• Google recently made a change to their core ranking algorithm. Many thought there would be several of these (and there still may be) to make the result pages better. However Google announced something completely different. A new update that will rank websites by the facts that are within the sites
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