Get A Few SEO Tips & Understand Search Results From Google & Matt Cutts

Luke in our web department forwarded me this post on The Anatomy of a Search Result that contains a video of Google’s Matt Cutts.  I’ve embedded the video below in which Matt breaks down a search engine result in Google using Starbucks as an example and points out where Google takes this info from, why […]

If You Promote Google, Does Google Promote You?

Some of you marketing hounds might remember back to January 2006 when Pontiac ended one of their tv commercials with a screen shot of Google’s search box with the search term "pontiac" being entered.  The commercial voice over stated "Google Pontiac and discover for yourself".  Ifyou don’t remember, you can read some past thoughts on […]

Universal Search & Video For Small Business

Video, video, video.  It’s everywhere, it’s increasing and it can even better your search engine results.  With engines pushing more results from videos, blogs and other web elements … not just web pages, you’re going to increase your opportunities to win business from Google, Yahoo and the likes.  Then consider the benefits of video to […]

I’m Headed To San Francisco Hungry, Yelp Will Help.

I’m headed to San Fran and wine country for a few days to celebrate my anniversary of 5 years this week.  Our project manager Janna suggested a great little italian restaraunt to check out, but when we called they will be closed for 2 weeks when we are there. Even though we were totally bummed, […]

Google Local Results Trump Organic Results

If you have done a search on Google lately that included a city or city/state location such as "limousines minneapolis", you will notice what is called the local one box results above the organic results (see screen shot below) with the Google map and top 3 results listed as A, B and C.  This has […]

Searchers Weigh In On Improving Search Engines

 Even though the answers below are from just sampling 425 web searchers, it is still very interesting to see the results.  If another search engine, whether it’s Ask.com, Yahoo or a new entry, want to take on the market share that Google commands they will need to have one of these answers as their selling […]