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Behind the Scenes of Our Website Redesign

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

 

If you’ve checked out our newly redesigned website lately you’ll see we opted for a more personal feel by adding photos to each of our pages. What you might not know, however, is that each of the photos are actual Vertical Measures employees!
 
We had a fun and exciting photo shoot with Phoenix Commercial Photographer Darren Stevenson. He provided us with some stellar photos, and we all had a great time!
 
Below are a few of the photos that ended up on the cutting room floor….
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Ralph Miller, Link Building Coordinator, improvised on a few shots while lighting was adjusted. This one we like to call: "The Lazy Man’s SEO". Not quite the right message we wanted to put forth on our site, but great posing on Ralph’s part! Follow Ralph on twitter @FearlessAdvisor, he’s quite a character.
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This photo features (from left to right) Kaila Strong, Social Media Architect; Elise Redlin-Cook, Internet Marketing Specialist; and Michael Schwartz, Internet Marketing Specialist. "The Distracted Trio" is a great title for this photo, but again not really a message put forth by a successful Website Marketing Company. Follow the dynamic trio on Twitter (again from left to right): @cliquekaila, @redlincook and @MBSchwartz.
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Ralph was at it again, but this time with Eli Shapiro, Link Manager: "Day Dreaming for Links". Their actual tactic for link building is anything but daydreaming, providing great results for our clients. Eli can be found on LinkedIn, connect with him! 
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And last but certainly not least we have Liz Gessaman, Client Services Manager; and Ardala Evans, Internet Marketing Specialist. "Turn Those Frowns Upside Down by Meeting Those Deadlines!" These gals ensure our success here at Vertical Measures by keeping us to our deadlines. While this picture is fitting for our determined attitudes, it’s far from flattering for these beautiful gals. Find Liz and Ardala on Twitter, @Virtually_Yours and @AZArdie (respectively).  

Announcing Our New Site

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

In case you haven’t noticed yet our site redesign is now live! Thanks to Chris, our Director of Search Marketing, for working so hard and coordinating the web design. We wanted to get some feedback from our regular site visitors and blog readers on how you feel the site looks and feels. 

Take a look at the Vertical Measures homepage and the photos, design, and dynamics. Click around the site to our link building services page, social media services page, etc…and notice all of the changes we’ve made! Even the SEO & Link Building Best Practices Blog looks different! We’re all about input here at Vertical Measures and would love to get your feedback. Hope you like the improvements, and any constructive criticism is welcomed.
 
Place your comment below and let us know!
 

 

 

Happy Hall-SEO-Ween!

Friday, October 30th, 2009

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Happy Hall-SEO-Ween to all of our freakishly awesome and ghoulishly white hat SEO’s and SEM’s out there. In the spirit of the holiday we wanted to share some great Halloween inspired SEO finds with our readers, as well as some photos of our team dressed up. 

This post by Distilled shows "The Best SEO Halloween Costumes", great for those in our industry who still need some ideas on what to dress up as for Halloween. Whether it’s spam, a white hat fairy, or even a black hat fairy, you can create an inventive and fun costume to amuse your nerdy friends.
 
If you do end up dressing in SEO inspired garb why not enter this SEO Halloween costume contest? 1st place prize is a $200 Apple Store gift certificate, 2nd place a $100 Apple Store gift certificate, and 3rd place: an eVisbility Robts.txt shirt.
 
And last but certainly not least of our Halloween inspired SEO finds is the SEO Horror Story contest sponsored by Vizion, Raven, and others. The contest ends tomorrow, so be sure to enter for your chance to win one of many SEO related prizes including a free year of Ravel Tools membership, a "Pro" account at SEMRush.com and more!
 
Check out the Vertical Measures team: 
 
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SEO Funny Signs

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

We’ve all seen those funny church signs while out and about, or maybe you’ve only seen them online. Anyways, we thought the below was a pretty funny one and inspired us to come up with our own using Says-It.com. Check out: SignGenerator.org and SignGeneratorMaker.com as well!

These types of things can be link worthy content *hint, hint*. You can use the sign generators listed above to come up with catchy and clever images for your particular niche or industry and post on your site, or even on your social profiles. Promoting via Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, e-mailing your friends, and so on is how to get it started. You never know, something funny and off the wall may just go viral on you!

Some questions can't be answered by google

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 Some Vertical Measure’s Originals: 

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Link Love Not War

 

link unto others as you would have them link unto you

 

only google can judge your backlinks

 

 

11th commandment thou shalt not cross google

 

12th commandment thou shalt not steal content

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Have any other good ideas? Let us know!

And the Winner Is….

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Our recent logo redesign contest, which gave away $250.00 to one lucky logo designer, had a whopping 134 entries! We utilized LogoTournament.com to manage this contest, and we chose our winner last week. The new logo design, featured below, is complete with pictoral image and new color scheme. What do you think? We’d love to hear your feedback. We’re in the process of changing our logo on our social sites, client documents, and on the website as well. While the logo changes to the website will take some time, you’ll soon see the new logo on our social sites. Don’t forget to follow us @VerticalMeasure and on Facebook as well!

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