Search Engines Honor 9/11 Today

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Like many major tragedies, the events of September 11, 2001 have been politicized and wildly distorted over time.  Yet what remain most poignant are individual stories of heroism and tragic family loss.  We all have a special responsibility to preserve these stories for generations.  Especially today, on its eighth anniversary. A free Friday moment?  Celebrate [...]

Google Places Traffic Stats: What the Google Local Business Center Tells Us

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

photo credit: dinimueter Recently, we posted information on how to get listed in Google Places. If you have a local business, or even a business with a physical address, this is a listing you absolutely must have. And now you can view all sorts of awesome stats on how that Google Places listing is working [...]

SEO Basics – If You Build it RIGHT, They Will Come

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

When you first built your site, did you have high hopes that “If you build it, they will come”? Sometimes website designers and site owners alike often get caught up in that field of internet dreams and forget the very important step of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It might have worked for Kevin Costner in [...]

Google: Up, Up & Away

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Did use of the verb “Googling” cement your switch from Yahoo (or Altavista), back in 2002?  Or are you proudly using a “mix” of search engines, showing no loyalty to one over the other? If you show no preference to one search engine today, the New York Times is surprised.  The Times, along with many [...]

How to Spot a Bad SEO Firm

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting recently made an interesting post in his “Ramblings About SEO” blog titled “11 Ways to Recognize a Bad SEO Firm”. We liked it enough to share it with our readers as well. Here’s our summary of what he had to say, but you can also click the link above [...]

Google Continues Search Dominance

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

comScore released the February 2008 U.S. Search Rankings report this week. Google almost doubled the number of searches of MSN & Yahoo combined. Google’s share of all U.S. searches was 59.2%, which was a slight increase of 0.7% over January 2008. Yahoo’s share was 21.6% and MSN’s 9.6% in February. The number of overall searches [...]