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Helpful Information about Online Marketing and Search Engine Optimization
Online Marketing can be a frustrating, confusing and complicated endeavor for any business owner. We believe it doesn't have to be. At GreatCircle, a Tampa website design and SEO company, we provide a number of services to help our clients improve their online marketing and the performance of their websites in the search engines. We created this SEO Blog to help you succeed in your SEO efforts.
Since we're very involved in this subject we stay on top of the ever-changing world of SEO. We decided to create this blog as a way to publish information on this subject as we come across it. We also offer a free white paper on SEO and online marketing, so check that out too. We hope you find the information we have assembled here useful. Feel free to share with us your SEO knowledge and experiences using the comments links below each article.
Google Answers some SEO Questions
Google Webmaster Blog sent out some questions from webmasters (that many of us have been asking) and provided answers. These are summarized in this article.
Working with Multi-Regional Websites
Google Webmaster Blog sent out an email on this subject. We don’t have a lot of experience with client’s who need to serve multiple languages with their sites. However, for those who do there is a lot to know and a lot of additional work for the site. I have reproduced an edited version of the information in the Google Webmaster email here for those who might be interested in this and but who don’t monitor the Google Webmaster Blog.
Reducing Spam from Your Contact or Comment Forms
Spam! Everyone hates it (except perhaps the spammers). Email spam is the type of spam most people are familiar with. It is a plague on the Internet and in my opinion email spam has all but ruined a great communications technology. However, this article is about spam that comes from your website forms and some ways to deal with that.
New SEO Service for Local Businesses!
Rocket Your Business to the top of Google’s Local Listings!
If your business is primary serving customers geographically located near your store then you need to orient your Search Engine Optimization efforts towards making your business more visible to users doing local searches (read our blog article for more on local search). Recently there has been quite a buzz about Google and local search, specifically the greater importance of getting reviews of your business posted online.
GreatCircle Studios has just launched an exciting new SEO service for local businesses: GOOGLE REVIEWS POSTING PROGRAM! Read on to learn more …
The Importance of Internet Local Search for Small Business
A study released in October, 2009 by TMP Directional Marketing (www.tmpdm.com) examines the annual growth of online local search including changes in consumer behavior. It should come as no surprise that the study revealed further movement toward online search channels such as Internet search engines, mobile platforms and social media. The study shows the search industry expanding quickly: the total number of U.S. searches has grown in the last year by 31 percent!
Tips for Leveraging Social Media
I came across a great article on this subject that I wanted to share. But first, when we’re talking about SEO and “social media” what does that really mean? SEO is search engine optimization and refers to a variety of techniques and actions that one takes to make their website and content findable by web searchers. Social media is a broad term that embraces a wide variety of websites that bring together communities of users and provide a platform where they can interact with each other.
Google’s New Commerce Search: Not for the Little Guy
Another Google post? I promise I’m not on the Google payroll! For some reason Google just seems to keep pushing out a steady stream of new products and other items of interest. As the 500 pound Gorilla on the block we are kind of required to keep track of them. So what’s the new commerce search all about?
Google’s Place Pages: What Are They?
Yeah, I know I’ve written a lot about Google the last few weeks. I didn’t really set out to do that, but they just keep releasing so much stuff! And they are the big dog so I think it’s important to keep track of them. Today’s piece is about a new feature available within Google Maps called Place Pages.
What is Google Wave?
Google Wave is a new initiative announced by Google last May. Google describes Wave as “Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.” Wave has not yet been released and Google is releasing it to testers on an invitation only basis.
Google Video Channels: Tips for Efficient Web Searching
Google has developed its own video channels to provide information about its services and how they work. The main channel is called The Google Channel (www.youtube.com/user/Google). There is also a channel for Webmasters.
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