Michael Laps

has always been interested in the online world. He's always looking for the next big story, the next revolutionary development, or the next special online sale that will result in him accumulating a mass of unneeded items. The digital world is his home.

SEO has long been perceived as a natural, effective way to boost your rankings in search engines. And it still is – for the most part. Google’s algorithm is constantly changing. Some days more drastically and noticeably than others, but nevertheless, it’s ever-evolving. As a result, some business owners are finding it increasingly difficult to [...]

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What if I told you that you’re wasting your precious time on half the social media platforms you’re currently using? While social media has become one of the biggest touch-points between brands and their customers, far too often you find companies jumping head-first into the social pool, only to realise they had no idea just [...]

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Every online marketing campaign needs direction, otherwise you’re effectively spending money with your fingers crossed. There is, however, a mistake that continues to rear its head in this area: the distinction between tactics and strategy. If you don’t know the difference, or how they work in unison to further your online marketing efforts, now is [...]

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Google is sending out increasing numbers of warnings about “artificial” or “unnatural” links to websites. At first, it seemed like a fresh raid on link-building farms and spam-filled websites that offer no value to visitors. Yet the good people at Google have assured us this isn’t the case, and is merely a step towards being [...]

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The Google Dance

by Michael Laps on March 27, 2012

in SEO

Are you finding that your rankings on the Google results page are all over the place? Are they bouncing around like a high-energy hip-hop performer? Or leaping from place to place like a ballerina? Blame the Google team and their dancing skills. Yes, programmers can dance too. The “Google Dance”, as it’s called, is the [...]

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Our world is changing more rapidly than ever. Babson College recently released an eye-opening statistic: “Over 40 percent of the companies that were at the top of the Fortune 500 in 2000 were no longer there in 2010”. The book Built to Change by Edward  E. Lawler and Christopher G. Worley claims the trend is [...]

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It’s a dog-eat-dog business world out there. Every morning billions of people go to work and try to help their company out-grow, out-manoeuvre and out-position their competitors. It’s a daily struggle that managers, executives and CEOs taken upon themselves – leading a team to the Promised Land. But what’s the best way to get there? [...]

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The Super Bowl. It’s America’s sporting highlight, and advertising’s biggest stage. Not to mention most expensive. In 2012, a 30 second TV spot was going for a cool $4 million. And with that kind of price tag, most agencies go all-out to make the commercials as appealing, creative, humorous and talked-about as possible. Celebrities are [...]

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Now that we’ve dispelled all rumours regarding social media’s inability to add value, let’s cover something more advanced. Integration. Social media is everywhere, linked to everything, and constantly shifting the marketing landscape. But Google’s latest innovation, “Search Plus Your World”, has turned social media into air… You need it to survive. More-so than ever, there [...]

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“Socialnomics” is a foreign term to most businesses. Many companies are still set in outdated mind frames. Too afraid of change, and too afraid of what they don’t understand. Yet rather than educate themselves to stay ahead of their competition, they stubbornly refuse to budge. The result? Failure. If not today, then probably tomorrow. At [...]

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