Let’s say you’re out running errands in Dallas, and need to make a last minute stop for some, let’s say, size-15 stilettos — but you don’t know where to find a pair. The wonderful, magical world of local search already makes it easier than ever to find a shoe store: Search “Dallas shoe store” on [...]
Search engine optimization around location increasingly matters. Here’s what you need to know: What is it? It’s optimization for searches that take into account location—of both the searcher and the local business—as well as other, more traditional searching factors. According to Google, 73 percent of all online activity relates to local content. Each of the [...]
Speed now matters in SEO, according to an announcement on the Google Webmaster Central Blog by by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer, Google Search Quality Team. The search engine behemoth revealed that it will start factoring in website speed (how quickly a website responds to web requests) into its search results [...]
Google recently announced another big change in how they will be presenting search results. They are extending their Personalized Search to everyone, this means all Google users, whether logged in or not, will start seeing personalized results. Google explains Personalized Search: For example, since I always search for [recipes] and often click on results from [...]
The Apple “It’s Only Rock n Roll” Event happened with Steve Jobs appearing in public the first time this year. With the fan-fare came the expected release of the new iPod, iPhone, and iTunes releases. In the interest of full disclosure, I am an owner of the new 3Gs. With Obama being a Blackberry customer, [...]
