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Strategy

Blue Tent: #7 On Outside’s Best Places to Work in 2012

What an honor to make it into the top ten on Outside Magazine's 2012 "Best Places to Work" list! We knew we had a good thing going here at BTM WHQ, but who knew we'd be so lucky as to finish near…

Team BluetentAugust 3, 2012

SEO | Inbound Marketing

MozCon 2012 Recap

The Blue Tent Marketing SEM team returned this week from MozCon, SEOmoz’s annual search marketing conference in Seattle, and boy was it a rewarding experience. SEOmoz has put together such an unbelievable community of people that are truly passionate about our…

Brynn FlahertyAugust 3, 2012

SEO | Inbound Marketing

Keeping Meta Descriptions Current (and food safe)

Meta descriptions have not been a significant ranking factor for a while now (nor have keywords), but they remain important for optimizing click through rate (CTR). They are essentially ad copy to encourage people to click on your link in search engine…

Jordan DanielsJuly 28, 2012

SEO | Inbound Marketing

Why Isn’t Google Using My Meta Descriptions?

You've put substantial resources toward optimizing your meta descriptions on your site; you made sure they were relevant, accurate, eye-catching, concise and use the language your customers are using. That's not easy. So why isn't Google using them? Well, you…

Jordan DanielsJuly 28, 2012

Strategy

Meet the Intern

Hello, my name is Blake Lockard. In the last year, I have been blessed with the amazing opportunity to intern at Blue Tent Marketing. So far I have learned a great deal of things that will certainly help me in…

Team BluetentJuly 11, 2012

Websites

New: Dancing Bear Aspen

We’re excited to announce the newly redesigned and redeveloped Dancing Bear Aspen website! We worked closely with the team at Timbers Resorts, Compass Marketing and Dancing Bear Aspen to produce the site on a very tight timeline. We launched the site just…

Team BluetentJune 25, 2012

SEO | Inbound Marketing

Google Places Transitions to Google+ Local

Google launched the much anticipated Google+ nearly a year ago, but in the last week, this social platform has become much more important to us all. On May 30th, Google announced that Google Places will be phased out in favor…

Brynn FlahertyJune 5, 2012

Websites

New Site: oldCape Sotheby’s Vacation Rentals

We're excited to announce the launch of the new oldCape Sotheby's Vacation Rentalswebsite! We began working with the team at oldCape Sotheby's on a "define/design project" - a process whereby we worked together to identify key priorities, functionality requirements and the design of…

Team BluetentMay 29, 2012

Strategy

The Great VRMA Recap

10,000 miles and three VRMA conferences later, we finally made it back to WHQ after a busy month of traveling. Peter Scott and Robyn Scherrer hit Atlantic City for Eastern VRMA, while I hit Monterey CA for Western VRMA and…

Team BluetentMay 23, 2012

SEO | Inbound Marketing

Google Releases New “Web Spam” Algorithm Update

Google has recently released their long-awaited web spam (previously referred to as the over optimization) algorithm update. While there were hints of what was to come in the latest update, we now know the update affects approximately 3.1% of English…

Team BluetentApril 27, 2012