Monthly Archives: October 2010

Does Facebook affect SEO?

It has been a little unclear in the past as to what Facebook and other Social Media sites do for search engine optimization. Some businesses attempt to use social media to generate links to their site and boost their rankings….

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Local Listings are Interactive

Some people believe that all they need to do is create or claim their Google, Bing, and Yahoo local listings and that is all they need for their business to rank high in places. Don’t be one to fall into…

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Google’s New Custom Search Auto-completion Tools

Breaking News: Cool move by Google today. They’ve upgraded the autocompletion of queries in Custom Search. This allows webmasters to control what pops up in the autocomplete field when someone starts typing in their search bar on their website. By…

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Bing Ranking Algorithm Uses Click Through Rate

Steve Tullis, Senior Program Manager Lead, Bing, Microsoft confirmed that click through rate is an important factor in the Bing raking algorithm. Simply stated: If you rank for a key term and your customers aren’t clicking on your link your…

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Why You Want To Submit Your Website To Search Engines

One of the very first things you will need to do after you create a new Website address (a.k.a URL or Domain name),is to submit it to search engines. Why submit your website address to search engines? This little detail…

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Search Engine Changes for Yahoo

For more than five years Yahoo has slowly been losing it’s search engine users. Yahoo has recently introduced a series of new features in hopes to better contend with the search-engine-giant Google. Attempting to make the Yahoo search engine more…

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B2B Marketing and Social Media

The emergence of the internet as the world’s biggest form of communication has created endless opportunities for marketing. And nothing is more popular right now than social media marketing. The fluid and largely unstructured social media world allows companies to…

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Google TV: What You Want To Know

Google launched a website today that gives details about the long-anticipated Google TV. With no specifics about a launch date, the site does give us some vivid screen shots and awesome insights into what it will be capable of. It’s…

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Optimizing Your Website for Search Engines and People

It doesn’t matter how high your site can rank on Google if you can’t get anyone to stay. How many times have you clicked the first search result only to find an ugly, irrelevant site despite the fact that it…

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Google Makes a Spelling Mistake On its AdWords Page

Google, the Search Engine leader, whom the majority of the world turns to daily when it has questions, has made a spelling mistake. Ironically, on their AdWords page, Google has misspelled “Attract more customers” as “Attact more costumers.” The mistake…

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