Archive for April, 2009

Penetrating the Google Ten Pack

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

The Google Ten Pack is considered “prime real estate”. But what is it that those ten sites have that your site might not have? Today we’ll explore some simple changes that will help catapult your site into this section. If these simple changes don’t do the trick, give us a call and we can provide a deeper analysis for you.

In this image, you can see where the Ten Pack is located on the Google Search Results Page. If your site is not listed, it is worth the effort to make some adjustments to your Google Local account to try to get it there. (more…)

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Requesting Reconsideration With Google Webmaster Tools

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

You’ve noticed that your website isn’t coming up in Google’s search results as it once did…  either completely removed or has plummeted drastically. (more…)

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Yahoo, MSN & Google Sitelinks: Large & Small

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

What are Sitelinks? Why do search engines garner Sitelinks to some search results and not others? What determines the ‘important’ pages that are listed?

You may have noticed something like this for your brand:

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Or these ‘mini’ Sitelinks:

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What’s the story with Sitelinks? (more…)

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Real Time Tweets & New Search Engines

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

With the onset of real time tweets via the giant communication hub, Twitter, comes various creations of real time search engines. Welcome Twazzup - a funny name, a cool engine. The race is clearly on among what is yet to be pegged as the next best “Twitter Search Engine”.

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Google Local Results For Non Local Queries

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Google Local is all the buzz with the expansion of local results for non local search queries. What are you talking about? Let’s delve into this a bit more.

If you type in a non local search query, Google now shows search results related to your IP address  regardless whether you typed in your location or not! What’s even better is that these local search results are pulling in whether you are signed into your Google account or not! Wild. Go ahead, try it out. (more…)

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