Sure, some companies can poke the grizzly bear with a stick and get away with it, but would you take that risk? According to The Atlantic: The Los Angeles Times recently flagged a troublesome trend at Google News. After an abundance of glowing coverage about the California Central Basin’s new recycled water system started showing [...]
On their blog this week, Bing explains why, more than anything else, the search engine loves them some savory, juicy, smoked hyperlinks: You want links for a few reasons: because they alert us to your website when its new, or to new content because they are a vote of confidence in your site – quality [...]
Local search (the use of search engines to find local businesses) is changing the world—and it’s doing it just about as fast as we can keep up. Think about the all the different local search and social media applications that have taken off in just the past couple years: Twitter, which now seems ubiquitous (and [...]
Let’s say you own an outsider art gallery in Dallas. Someone looking to learn about the genre would then quite obviously search for “outsider art gallery in Dallas” and get a bunch of results. But these days, search results don’t just include relevant, high-ranking websites. That same search will also bring up a Google map [...]
Another week, another glitzy new Google innovation that could change everything we think we know about search engine and Internet marketing (okay maybe not—but it will at least make it all a little bit faster). Google Instant is very much like it sounds—as soon as you begin typing in a search term, Google gives you [...]
Here’s your new search engine optimization strategy: Build a company that is valued by your customers and clients. Build a smart, effective site that highlights this value. Build a company that is valued by your customers and clients. No, really, build a great company. Here’s why: A few weeks ago, we mentioned that Google had [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
