With the popularity of twitter, the social media powerhouse, on the rise many people are wondering if Google is treating content and links found in twitter are treated differently than any other website. Google’s very own Matt Cuts Answers Read the rest of this entry »

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Today it was announced that there was a new study on Sitemaps at the WWW’09 conference in Madrid. Some of you may be interested in reading the full report or viewing the power point.  The one part that I found to be very interesting was that 78% of URLs were seen by Sitemaps first, compared to 22% that were seen through discovery first (aka craled by a search engine spider through links). Read the rest of this entry »

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• Google Continues To Center On Location. http://tinyurl.com/derz47 #
• Yelp Allows Business Owners To Talk Back On Site http://snipr.com/gm7o5 #
• The Oprah Effect: 43 Percent Pop for Twitter http://snipr.com/gdvgc #
• The Fastest Growing Social Sites http://is.gd/txGF #
• Social Media Takes Center Stage: Popular Stories This Week http://tinyurl.com/cv6h92 #

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You’ve probably heard the buzz around social media website’s like facebook and twitter this year. Lot of celebrities (Oprah effect: 43% jump in Twitter traffic) and businesses are taking advantage of these high traffic website’s to increase their brand awareness and communicate with their user base.

Over the past year we have been studying successful social media campaigns Read the rest of this entry »

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Staring this week when someone does a Google search for your name your Google profile (including your photo) may appear at the bottom of the search results page. I highly recommend claiming your profile as soon as possible to protect your result.

Chris Hornak google profile result

Here are profile optimization tips from Google:

• Add information about yourself on the Edit profile page so people can find you when they search by keywords associated with your profile. For example, include details such as the name of your hometown, your job title, where you work or go to school.
• Link to your profile on another website (for instance, your blog or online photo album).
• If you have a common name, add enough information about you to distinguish your profile from similar ones. Photos are especially useful.
• Verify your name, and get a “Verified” badge on your profile. Verify alternate addresses on your account.

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Search engine algorithms have ways of detecting your address by scanning your website’s code. Getlist.org just recently released a new tool called Address Extractor that will actually  scan your webpage (where the address is found) and verify that the search engine’s can read it correctly.  This tool is great for those website’s that are tied to a geographical location. Website’s that are optimized for geo-graphical locations are more likely to rank for search terms containing those locations. Read the rest of this entry »

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The following article was written by Phil Laboon, SEO of Eyeflow, an internet marketing firm that specializes in search engine optimization for secondary schools and colleges.  Phil addresses some of the common pit falls many schools use when they attempt SEO/ SEM for their school’s website.  Some issues addressed are schools that cause issues by letting their lead generation company hand their internet marketing needs on top of their lead gen efforts as well as what a school should watch for when using said

companies. Read the rest of this entry »

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Eyeflow is a Pittsburgh Internet Marketing firm specializing in organic search engine optimization. We provide a holistic approach to web optimization including social media promotion, search engine friendly website content generation and optimization and link building strategies. This multi-tiered approach encourages long lasting results and stable rankings. Search engine optimization is not an easy process, nor is a quick one. Only through conscientious adherence to best practices and a well rounded internet marketing campaign can it provide the best results.

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