Click +1 To See What Happens Social SEO is increasing in importance in the world of Search Engine Optimization. Google has been bleeding traffic market share to the social networks, and in an effort to plug the gaps they have released +1. The goal of +1 is to capitalize on relationships, and provide personal recommendations [...]

Recent Google algorithm updates have focused on promoting websites that are of a “higher quality” to the top of the search results. This sounds logical in theory, but how does Google judge quality? After all, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” and “quality” is subjective, a matter of opinion. Cooking Up Quality in [...]

Google is in the process of implementing a new social sharing tool called +1. This is similar to the Facebook “Like” button, but will be integrated into all Google products including organic search results. We will start seeing +1 this month, and the ability to add it to your site shortly thereafter. The impact of [...]

Google recently added a real time widget to their Search Results Pages (SERPs) in an effort to integrate the growing volume of social media, breaking news, and blogosphere content into the Google Index. The Google Real Time search widget is triggered when the volume of content in the RightNowosphere reaches a certain trending and distribution [...]

Google Alerts www.google.com/alerts is an essential tool for business owners that want to monitor their brand, business name, and ultimately their reputation online. With a few quick entries you will be notified via email every time Google discovers the topic of your Alert. Here is the syntax that I recommend you set up for your [...]

Good news for sites with shopping carts, reservation and booking engines, MLS and property listings, and any other website that generate dynamic urls that lead back to the same page. The Problem (SEO perspective) is duplicate content. Multiple paths (urls) back to the same content will hurt your sites ability to perform in the search [...]