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IIAC 2020 Outstanding Judge certificate

Mark Ruthenberg Recognized for Judging the IIAC competition

Our President, Mark Ruthenberg, has been judging competitions of online content since 2001, and the IIAC (International Internet Advertising Competition) since 2007. Congrats to all the winners ! See IIAC 2020 Competition Winners

Coronavirus updates: Woman with surgical mask (by Anna Shvets)

KEY Coronavirus Links featured on local FoundLocally.com pages

Recognizing people’s need for better coronavirus/COVID19 information, we have added links on our various local FOUNDLOCALLY.COM home pages, linking to the most appropriate federal, provincial, municipal websites, local health authorities, to ensure everyone has quick access to AUTHORITATIVE NEWS & UPDATES. We have provided localized information on each of our 30 FoundLocally.com websites. We’ve also included content links for activity…

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Top Canadian Directories you NEED TO BE included in

We recently conducted a review of directories and their impact of your web marketing & SEO. We noticed that several metrics that Google includes in its ranking factors are the number of back-links or “citations”. We took a look at several SEO/citation companies and their listings of “top directories”, and organized them in a spreadsheet. Where they included ranks (position…

Yellow Pages paper directory in Calgary

SEO, R.I.P.

No, SEO and directory, and search engine submission is NOT DEAD! And neither is Canada’s beloved (but anachronistic) paper phone directory. In our review of top directory sites out there, as recommended by several top SEO and “Citation building” companies, we have cataloged about 200 different directories, search engines, and social media tools, etcetera that accept listings from Canadian businesses.…

Facebook-Google-Tax Change (National Post)

National Post: Senate urges Liberals to reconsider tax deductions for ads on Google, Facebook

Ads in Canadian-owned newspapers and magazines are only 100 per cent deductible if the issue has more than 80 per cent original content. A Senate committee wants the government to revisit a tax rule that entices companies to advertise on foreign online platforms like Google and Facebook, spending that it says is “hobbling Canada’s already declining news industry.” The Standing…

Epoch Times Article-Simple Tax Fix Could Help Rescue Canada’s Ailing Newspaper Industry, Says Union Head

Simple Tax Fix Could Help Rescue Canada’s Ailing Newspaper Industry, Says Union Head

90 percent of the $5.6 billion spent by Canadian companies on digital ads went to foreign web platforms By Jared Gnam, Special to The Epoch Times “This means Canadian companies are buying their ads on Google and Facebook, with their huge readership, instead of on Canadian-owned sites. This loophole, says Morse, is funnelling millions in advertising revenue away from Canadian online…

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Only 40% of programmatic spend goes to publishers

Only 40% of programmatic spend goes to publishers: study Only 40% of programmatic spend goes to publishers: study new analysis by warc shows that publishers get less than half of the spend, and that’s assuming there’s no ad fraud. A new study by technology market research firm Technology Business Research (TBR), among 240 marketing and advertising professionals using programmatic ad buying technology,…

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Is your web marketing up to snuff? Three Steps to Success!!

You may have a new website, you may have one many years old. Either way, you may not be achieving the results you are looking for. Old marketing methods (television, radio, newspaper, and Yellow Pages advertising) no longer get the audiences they used to, and sure don’t get the results, either. The consumer eyeballs and the future are all moving…

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MovingInCanada enhanced for Americans (Moving to Canada)

To help the many Americans, who following the election of Donald Trump, are considering  moving to Canada, we have added some features to our MovingInCanada.com website. Each of our provincial and community pages now have a “WHY Move to….?” summary of that province’s  or that community’s key attributes.  We put it at the top of each page, and highlighted the…

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