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The Duplicate Content “Penalty” Myth by Greg Grothaus Engineer, Google Search Quality

Here is video and slides from one of Google’s Engineers that works on the Search Quality Team. He discusses how they view duplicate content and how they look at different scenarios. Most of the time there are no penalties, justĀ omittedĀ sites for certain search queries but they come up for others.

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Good Video on Google Local Business Center – Google Local Maps

Here is a great video that explains why Google Local Maps has become more and more important and why we use it with all of our clients. It is also great for local organic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and we have been finding on average a 10% click through rate which is about 4 times [...]

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Self Employment stories with Passion & Attitude

A friend of mine sent me this video knowing I’m from South Jersey originally and asked if I liked Pat’s or Geno’s better. Pat’s is of course my favorite but I loved hearing the owners’ stories of passion, confidence, and how their entrepreneurship is the foundation of our country. Check out the video below. Oh, [...]

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Best Social Media Video I have seen so far…

Here is a video created by Socialnomics about Social Media. It is the best social media video I have seen so far… If you don’t see why you need to be coming up with a Social Media strategy and executing on a Social Media plan after watching this video, you probably think the internet is [...]

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The link path to a great story; The Fisherman & The Businessman

I was recently viewing the latest “Showdown Series” on WooThemes and came across a designer, developer, and SEO consultant’s blog that is based in the UK. He had made a comment about which theme design he liked and it linked back to his site. I decided to check it out as I always do to [...]

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Ignoring SEO hurt mattress retailer, either embrace it or lose to your competitors that do.

Hat Tip: Brafton I recently read an article about how 1-800-Mattress didn’t embrace search engine optimization and wouldn’t allow franchisees have control and create their own search engine friendly site since the corporate site was so terrible. Here is a few quotes and takeaways from the article; In an interview with Econsultancy, Evan Saks, regional [...]

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Another great WordCamp video presentation from Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts, with Google has been kind enough to blog about what Google looks for when it comes to returning the best search results. In a previous post I had the most recent WordCamp 2009 video. However, he just sent out a tweet today on his Twitter about a video presentation from Wordcamp 2007. Here [...]

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Are you a business that needs help with using Twitter?

We can help you get in the Social Media game. We can help you set up a Twitter account, train you and your staff on ways to increase “followers”, or even manage & monitor your Twitter account for you to save time with collaboration and communication of you and your staff. Here is a great [...]

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Eric Schmidt Google’s CEO video presentation at Bloomberg NY – Future of Technology560

Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt presents at Bloomberg‘s New York Headquarters on the future of technology. Some of the stats he shares are very eye opening and useful. Here are some of the stats in the video. To reach 50 million users it took 37 years for Radio, 15 years for television, 6 years for cable, [...]

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Facebook Page Owners get new Twitter Tool

Hat Tip: MediaPost Facebook has just launched a new feature that will help Facebook Page owners syndicate their updates and content to Twitter. This is huge because one of the downfalls in Social Media has been the ease to keep multiple accounts and multiple social media tools updated. This will help businesses, celebrities, musicians and [...]

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