What should my Google SERPs look like?

I know many of you search Google on your own brand name to see how your company ranks on Google.  It seems you can never get the ranking you want.  For your brand name you better be ranking #1.  I just search on my brand “Coach Parker” and was very please with the Google [...]

August 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: SEO | Leave a comment

So What the Hell Are We Supposed to Put on Google+?

I must agree with this article.  Not much going on just yet, but I also like the video hangout area.

Google+ is great for semi-sharing. You use it to have private discussions with adjustable groups of people. For business meetings and family gatherings and planning your weekend or vacation or career change with a [...]

July 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Social Networking | Leave a comment

Official Declaration of War – Facebook blocks Google+ ad – Yahoo! News

The war has officially started.  I guess the claim that you can’t patent a chair is becoming a reality.  Oh well, these social sites come a go, AOL, MySpace, Facebook and now maybe Google+ .  GMail is a big monster in the room along with search.  If Google can get people moving over like [...]

July 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Social Networking | Leave a comment

An Interview With Mark Cuban on Social Media and Entrepreneurship – Yahoo! News

This article is really good but I love this question and answer.  Its all about Uniqueness.  Earlier in the article Mark talks about sweat equity and and I am sure this relates to the last sentence about not being just a financial investor.

You get thousands of pitches from entrepreneurs looking for you to [...]

July 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Social Networking | Leave a comment

SEO Quick Results

Ok, so I am working on a client’s web site / WordPress blog from Pittsburgh.  Its been about 3 weeks and already the web site / WP Blog is in the top 10 natural search engine results in Google, Bing and Yahoo for its main search phrase. Not too shabby.  I am pretty happy [...]

May 25th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: SEO | Leave a comment

Search Engine Optimization Tip Webmaster Tools

Another very simple SEO search engine optimization step missed by small to medium sized businesses is submitting your site and xml site map feed to the search engine’s webmaster tools.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/

If the search engines don’t know your web site exists then its like having a retail shop in Timbuktu.  Yahoo, Bing [...]

May 18th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: SEO | Leave a comment

SEO Tip – Local First

There are a ton of small to medium sized businesses that are missing a free marketing opportunity for their local listing with Google Places, Yahoo Local Listings, Bing Business Portal and Merchant Circle.  Yes, your business might already be listed since many pull information from the state business records, but most do not have [...]

May 16th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: SEO | Leave a comment

WordPress Blog Hosting

Recently on a WordPress project I decided to look at one of the highly touted WP blog hosts to host our new WordPress project client demo site.  I am not going to name the WordPress Blog hosts  but its on of the 10 hosts that get listed as a top WordPress blog host.  I [...]

May 12th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: WordPress | Leave a comment

Google +1, the new Like Button

The much talked about Google +1 button is coming very soon to a web site near you, says Google at a recent technology conference.  Google’s +1 button is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Like button.  Some lucky users have seen the button on Google search results for a few months as they test out Plus [...]

May 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Social Networking | Leave a comment

Client WordPress site Google indexed in 1 day

Ok, so I am very surprised.  I just had one of my client’s WordPress.com websites that I added domain with mapping to yesterday is now 53 out of 3 million for their top keyword phrase.  Yep, I’ve hardly done a thing to the website except add about 35 draft pages and blog posts.  I [...]

May 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: SEO | Leave a comment
 
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