Phil Buckley

Phil Buckley is Virante's on-site specialist. As Director of SEO he works with clients all over the world to help them optimize what they already have, plan for the future and outrank their competitors.

How Much Money Is Your Site Costing You?

Bruce Willis

I am always amazed when I see or hear about a company that spends their CPC dollars on an ad and pushed that traffic to their homepage. I was listening to a great podcast this morning where Seth Godin explained it in naked dollars and sense that makes it crystal clear. You pay $8 for [...]

Website Migration Checklist

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Don’t start a website migration without this document. I promise it will save you some headaches.

Why SEO isn’t SEO anymore

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With all of the changes in the Google Algorithm in 2012, has content marketing become the new SEO?

Technical SEO is getting less technical

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Google’s Data Highlighter makes technical SEO less technical as Google tries to give searchers less reason to click through to your site.

Online Reputation Threat Evaluation

Don Rumsfeld

There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don’t know.
But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don’t know.

The Tablet Revolution

Panel discussion on Nov 8, 2012 at Internet Summit on the tablet revolution featuring Saya Behnam, Dave Dubé, Sasha Norkin, Steve Potash and Sucharita Mulpuru.

Designing and Optimizing for Multiple Screens

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Designing and Optimizing for Multiple Screens Session session on Nov. 8, 2012 at the Internet Summit featuring Alexandre Douzet, Les James, Ryan Manchee, Chris Stout and Aaron Schildkrout.

Usability & User Experience

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Live blogging coverage of the Usability & Experience session at the Internet Summit in Raleigh, NC on Nov. 6, 2012.

Link Removal and Google’s Disavow Tool

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Google’s link disavowal tool isn’t the game changer some were hoping for, but it can help you finish the link removal job you already started.

The Chamber of Commerce Opportunity

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Joining your local Chamber of Commerce is smart. Taking advantage of your membership to build a great backlink is even smarter.