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People always ask for SEO advice on reddit.com/r/seo. Something in the vein of: Sorry guys, total newb here. I’m the IT guy at a small company and my boss told me to make us #1 on Google. Any help would be appreciated. Usually this is met with similarly well thought out answers from the peanut …

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Get a Google Plus Profile https://plus.google.com If you already have a Google Plus profile, you can ignore this step. You should only have one Google Plus account, and it’s best to use your real name. If you have a personal Gmail address, that’s the one you’ll want to use for Google Plus. If not, go ahead and …

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We love working with local businesses here at Top Draw. Online marketing can be very rewarding for local companies and we’re always interested in new tools for the job. We’re big fans of Yoast, and have been using their flagship SEO for WordPress Plugin for a good while now, both on client sites and our own site, to …

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Responsive web design is something you’ll be hearing about (and seeing) lots this year. Google says it’s the recommended way to build websites from here on out, and Mashable has a detailed post on why 2013 is “the year of responsive web design”. I find myself answering these questions more and more as awareness increases, …

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I found the available answers online for this question to be pretty vague and confusing for a non-command line ninja. Rest assured though, it is very easy to do. There’s a $20 program out there that will do this, but I found it to be pretty clunky and … un-free. 1. Put all your CSV …

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After a couple weeks of toiling we’ve just posted up our Alberta Searches infographic to the Top Draw blog. Big thanks to our crack designer @wendyyeung for the beautiful design! Don’t be shy to get share-y! Courtesy of: Top Draw Edmonton Web Design & SEO

Got this error and immediately Googled it to find out WTF? You’re out of space on your hard disk (or you’ve reached your host’s quota). That’s it! Remove some old backups, delete some files or up the ante on your hosting plan!

Here are my rough notes from the third day at MozCon. You can check out my notes from day 1 here, and day 2 here. Forgive me for the abrupt nature of the content, I just wrote down the things I found notable, useful or actionable from my own perspective, so this isn’t intended as an …

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I always try and share little quick fixes for stupid problems I run into. Today I was trying to burn my Windows 8 preview .iso file to a disc, which I know is built into Windows 7, but for whatever reason the contextual menu wasn’t showing up for me. Surprisingly that actually a fairly common …

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