Courtney Gardner

Courtney Gardner

Affiliate Marketing Rep

Courtney is energetic and kind-hearted. While she earned her BS in Business Administration in Marketing, she started with us as an SEO specialist where she became rapidly experienced and took on extra projects. Courtney has a great work ethic to go along with her dynamic personality. As one of our Affiliate Marketing Reps, Courtney puts her copious amounts of energy towards recruiting online marketing partners, building close relationships with our networks, affiliates, and partners, developing strategies and reports for publishers, and troubleshooting any issues an affiliate runs into.

Courtney likes to swing dance – she says it’s de-stressing. She’s taken up cooking and baking since getting married. She and her husband enjoy walking through downtown Chattanooga and camping.

 

Courtney Gardner's Posts

Three SEO Misconceptions
April 16, 2013Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

In the game telephone, one person whispers a sentence to someone on their left. That person whispers the sentence to the next person in line, [...]

 
Giving Your Content New Purpose
April 10, 2012Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

I recently read an article by Deborah Carney in FeedFront Magazine, which described three ways to re-purpose your existing content. The article is useful for [...]

 
Sharpie’s New Marketing Campaign
July 28, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

The new Sharpie back to school campaign, “Start with Sharpie” is focused on the company’s passionate young fans and the wonderful works of art they’ve [...]

 
Starburst – The Best Contradiction
June 24, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

A great idea for Starburst has risen: the Starburst Contradictions Project. In this project, fans all around the country are encouraged to log on to [...]

 
The Truth about Add-on Domains
May 26, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

AREA203 recently went through a rebranding phase to present our intelligent, business-minded brand that is approachable and visually attractive. We wanted to create a separate [...]

 
Choosing a Domain Name? Consider This
May 18, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

There are a thousand different ways you could choose your domain name, so let me give you my top three criteria for choosing. 1. Keywords [...]

 
SEO: Content, Links, People

Matt Cutts explained SEO in one simple sentence, “…The objective is not to “make your links appear natural”; the objective is that your links are [...]

 
Google Maps U.S. Spring Tornadoes

Google is at it again. They set up a website on Google Maps that allows viewers to see where tornadoes occurred around the U.S. between [...]

 
Kellogg’s Share Your Breakfast Campaign
April 11, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

When pondering examples of great marketing, ginormous dollar amounts typically associated with successful campaigns naturally come to mind. These days, even ’cause’ marketing campaigns end [...]

 
5 Great iPhone Apps for Marketers
April 8, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

Marketing professionals rely on effective, efficient software of all varieties to ‘get the job done’. And most would agree that mobile versions make software that [...]

 
Gmail Motion: The Biggest Joke in the World
April 5, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

Last Friday, Google played an April fool’s joke on its Gmail users: On the Google homepage, a message at the bottom of the screen stated [...]

 
Mobile Website: The Time Is Now
March 16, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

“Do I need a mobile website?” Businesses the world over are now pondering this question as mobile phones offer web browsers and search capabilities. A [...]

 
Google’s Farmer/Panda Algorithm Change
March 10, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

Two weeks ago, Google updated its U.S.-based algorithm, known as the “Farmer” or “Panda” update. This change has mostly affected “content farm” websites of low [...]

 
Bing Commercial Series
January 20, 2011Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

Bing has a new commercial out this month in its Bing Search Overload Syndrome series, with the Super Bowl as its theme. The setting is [...]

 
12 Interactively Stimulating Website Experiences
December 7, 2010Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

I stumbled upon a very cool interactive website last week and it got me thinking; I wondered how many interactive websites I could find! Of [...]

 
Bad Manners or Great Marketing?
September 24, 2010Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

The new movie called “the social network,” which is about how Facebook got started, comes out October 1st.  Ironically, there is an ad directly on [...]

 
Is SEO comparable to a play? …really?
July 28, 2010Posts by Courtney Gardnerby Read More

It occurred to me the other day… that SEO is a lot like a play. You ask, how so? Well, there are two sides to [...]