by Scott | Nov 30, 2009 | Google
Doing a search the other day I was stunned to see a new interface from Google showing me tabbed results, with other relevant search phrases lined up across the top. I had been using a brand new laptop, so I walked over to my main computer to get a screen shot, and I...
by Scott | Sep 9, 2009 | Google, Local - Places - Maps, SEO
Last night my kids had football practice, and I had an 8pm commitment too, but I wanted to attend last nights monthly SEMpdx event, which was David Mihm’s presentation on local search. Recently, I’ve found myself working with some very small local...
by Scott | Aug 25, 2009 | Google, SEO
While browsing through the stats of some (very poorly maintained) sites of our own, I found one that had zero traffic for quite a few weeks. Visiting the site, I saw no site, and just a “Cannot connect to database” error. A glance at the toolbar showed me...
by Scott | Jun 10, 2009 | Google
I was just mid-session on Google Webmaster tools, when I clicked on a link and saw the message – “that page no longer exists”. Huh? I went back to my home page for WMT, and that too was a bad link. Weird. So, i went to my IGoogle home Page, went...
by Scott | May 15, 2009 | Google, Industry News
“Universal Search” was implemented by Google quite a while ago, yet the only visible change to the search results has been occasional interspersing of some video or news. Search was not really “revolutionized” or “changed as we knew...
by Scott | Sep 5, 2008 | Education, Events, Google, Local - Places - Maps, Local news, Public Speaking
Next week’s SEMpdx presentation gets very specific regarding the local search ranking algorithm. SEMpdx is fortunate to have a new board member join us for 2009 who’s recently moved here from San Fransisco. His name is David Mihm, he’s an expert in...
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