Category: industry updates

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Can Apps Replace Browsers?

Online marketers have always been barraged by a stream of doomsday accounts about how SEO is now dead, or just on the brink of it, and that the entire industry ...

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Announcing Our Partnership with Nitch Creative

The team at Gravitate Online is proud to announce a new partnership that we’ve started with with a fabulous company, Nitch Creative! Nitch Creative is a creative studio that does ...

Starbucks and the Power of Controversy

Many companies prefer to shy away from controversy when it comes around. The general manner of procedure, typically, is to try to make everyone happy so that you don’t alienate ...

The Battle for Search

Currently, search is dominated by Google. When people need to search, well over 70% of the time they go to Google. No real news there- everyone knows that Google rules. ...

Digital Storytelling 4: Deduction is Elementary

My wife Annie and I went out to see a movie; this is back in about 2009. We went to watch Sherlock Holmes, that American version with Robert Downey Jr. ...

Google I/O, WWDC & The Future of Search?

Garrett, Kevin and I went through Apple’s WWDC and Google’s I/O and highlighted some of our favorite things. Interestingly we got into the future of search. I made some pretty ...

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Pinterest Adversiting

If you’re a frequent user of Pinterest you may have noticed the same pin popping up in your news each time you log in. The one I’ve noticed in my ...

Don’t Call It A Comeback…

…I’ve Been Here for Years! Visual assets, or what we call them here- visual highlights, are gaining even more popularity in the online marketing world lately. Here’s the thing- they ...

Peak at the Future of Shipping and Online Shopping

In the category of the just plain cool, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos shows us that huge companies can innovate and think big- really big. As many of you know, Jeff Bezos ...

A MUST READ For All Gravitate Employees

…rest of you can read it too! One of the best decks I’ve gone through in a while, this slide show from a presentation done by Cyrus Shepard is A ...

You Can’t Always Get What You Want…

People don’t like hearing it, but we’ve been saying this for a long time. You get rankings that your site deserves. Don’t try cheap tricks or lame approaches. Instead, create ...

Mobile-Friendly Websites

Today people are viewing websites on a wider variety of devices than ever before. From smartphones to tablets, laptops to flat-screen monitors, there are a wide variety of sizes and ...

One email a month on what is working in Utah search

Tactics we are testing, results we are seeing. No filler.