This morning I was browsing some information about the Google Penguin update and happened to notice that it was officially launched on April 24, 2012 but only got its endearing name on April 26, 2012. That means somewhere in the last 2 days Google Penguin had its first birthday. For those who have not heard ...
Today while checking out how one of our clients listings appears on Bing I was presented with the Bing It On challenge and decided to take a couple minutes to give it a try. Bing It On is a “Google vs. Bing” challenge that asks you run five different searches and returns side by side ...
In the past couple weeks we have noticed something interesting with a few of our clients who service specific geographic areas. Some of their once stable top organic listings have been replaced with their Google Local listing. In the past we had seen several searches bring up their Local Listing AND an organic listing meaning ...
Article Review: Plus One This: Proof That Google Plus Will Prevail What’s your Google Plus opinion? If you start some searches for Google Plus in Google the autocomplete function will bring up some interesting results such as: Google Plus Dead Google Plus Failure Google Plus Quit Google Plus sucks After reading the Plus One This ...
This morning a co-worker forwarded me the article, “There’s No Avoiding Google+”. Feeling a little threatened by the title I took a few minutes to read through the article. Did you know that Google now requires people to use the Google+ social network when users create an account to use Gmail, YouTube, or write reviews, ...
A study published by SMB DigitalScape earlier this year points out alarming shortfalls of the majority of small business websites. While the study suggests that many small business websites are not technically sound from a search engine optimization point of view there are some bigger blunders at hand that can be fixed in less than ...
In looking back over the past 5 years of blogging we have put together a list of our top blogs about SEO ever published. It is interesting to see what themes and topics generate the most interest. Join us in our countdown of our Top 10 Most Read Articles about SEO. 10. Importance of Call ...
On occasion companies come to us with the complaint that they have obtained some great listings in the Search Engines but still do not get a lot of traffic. This seems like a paradox right? In theory organic traffic should increase as your organic rankings improve based on the fact that websites listed as #1 ...
As a content producer or a business owner, Facebook can be extremely valuable because it gives you access to a massive active audience at a single entry point; Open Graph Protocol can help you take advantage of that. Broadly speaking Facebook’s value is in its network effect (how many people use it): 900 Million+ monthly ...
Let’s admit it … getting your customers to write reviews can be very difficult no matter how outstanding your products and services are. But just because it’s hard doesn’t mean you can ignore the fact that you need reviews. A key component of a successful Google+ Local (formerly known as Google Places) listing for your ...
