Bits & Bytes

2024

December 31, 1969

Spring Cleaning Your Website: 3 Steps to Dust the Competition

With spring comes the perfect opportunity to refresh your website and marketing objectives. Clear out the clutter, polish your online presence, and leave competitors in the dust!

THE "UNIQUE" BOONDOGGLE OF THE INTERNET

Discover why the 'Unique User/Visitor' statistic, widely used to measure website popularity, is often overstated and unreliable. Learn about the flaws in this internet metric, its comparison to traditional media metrics, and factors that inflate unique user counts.

Guidelines for Creating a Powerful Website

In today’s digital age, your website acts as your virtual storefront. Potential clients and investors will judge your credibility based on the quality and professionalism of your website. Ensuring a strong online presence is essential to stay competitive and create a lasting impression.

Google’s Hummingbird: The new era of search results has begun

Hummingbird is Google’s new search engine algorithm built using both existing and new matrices, with the goal being to serve the search demands of today. According to Google, the name Hummingbird comes from it being “precise and fast.” Google started using Hummingbird about a month ago, and announced the change on September 26.

Why Your Website Matters More Than Ever

Your website is the single most powerful marketing tool you have—it’s your brand’s first impression and a direct reflection of your professionalism.

9 Social Media Trends to Leave Behind

Social media marketing trends are ever-evolving, and while adopting new practices is important, knowing what to avoid is equally crucial. Here's a list of nine things to leave behind for a stronger online presence.

Digital Paleontology

You’d be forgiven for thinking the early web was just a cruder version of what we have now—like TikTok but pixelated, or Google with worse fonts. But that’s not how it worked. The truth is we’ve rewritten our own digital history, pretending search, speed, and social were always part of the codebase. They weren’t.

To find out what really existed, we dig.

The Internet: From Novelty to Necessity

Every major technology passes through a predictable journey before becoming an invisible part of daily life. The internet is no exception. It has moved through what we call The Technology Maturity Cycle©, and the consequences for traditional search are now starting to show.

SEO Companies Still Selling RESULTS

The SEO landscape has always been shifting, but no change has been bigger than AI-driven search. Explore how AI is changing SEO in this complete timeline of SEO evolution—from early keyword stuffing and backlink manipulation to today’s structured data and trust-first ranking systems.

5 Tips for Writing Killer Emails

Email marketing is one of the most underappreciated tools available to businesses. While social media and SEO often steal the spotlight, email marketing consistently delivers a higher return on investment (ROI).

Stop Chasing Algorithms

For over two decades, SEO was treated like a formula: tweak keywords, buy backlinks, layer schema, and obsess over technical signals to trick search algorithms into giving you visibility.

SEO War 2025: Win with EDU/GOV Links & Human Strategy

Our expert SEO resources focus on what truly matters: earning high-trust backlinks from .edu and .gov domains, creating value-driven content, and building real human connections that search engines reward.

Want to Get Into the AI Response?

If you’re still optimizing to rank, you’re playing the wrong game. AI doesn’t reward content that screams for attention. It rewards content that earns trust. If your brand wants to appear in responses—not just results—it’s time to shift your entire framework.

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