What is Google Suggest and how does it work?

Google is launching, “Google Suggest“. It appears to work somewhat similar to Yahoo’s search suggestions. According to Google here are the improvements Google Suggest brings. “Help formulate queries: Instead of just typing [hotels in washington] - did you want [hotels in washington dc] or [hotels in washington state]? Don’t remember that song title or person’s name? Let Google help you search (and yes, I ended up choosing “From This Moment” as our wedding song). Reduce spelling errors: Since suggestions are spell-corrected using the same “Did...
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How to search optimize for social media websites.

Social Media is exploding and Google Universal delivers 16% of it results in with non traditional pages such as video, blogs and images. I frequently receive questions about how to search optimize for social media websites. Here is a list of four great references for any beginner interested in learning more about this subject: http://www.toprankblog.com/2006/08/new-rules-for-social-media-optimization/ http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016605.html http://www.searchenginejournal.com/social-media-optimization-13-rules-of-smo/3734/ http://www.searchengineguide.com/lisa-barone/the-beginners-guide-to-social.php I...
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What is the Google Insight for search tool?

Google recently launched Google Insights for Search, a tool that helps businesses understand unique searcher behavior at a more detailed level than previously provided. The tool offers statistics based on search volume and search patterns. Researchers can compare seasonal trends, geographic distributions, and category-specific searches, and can group all these variables together to understand some very specific search patterns. This new tool also allows researchers to view “rising searches” overall or it allows monitoring of specific filters the researcher has set up.
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Back to school search trends by Google Adwords team.

I listened to a presentation by the Google Adwords team a week or two about about Back To School Trends. If you sell back to school products I think you will find this presentation very informative.
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Building Links, Buying Links and Social Bookmarks for Better SERPs.

I’m leaving you this for the weekend. It comes from Gary The Scuba Guy who is a moderator at SEOChat.com. This post provides great insight into some more advance SEO techniques for improving your Google rankings over time. The post is, “Building Links, Buying Links and Social Bookmarks for Better SERPs.” Have a great weekend!
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San Diego, Temecula area SEO and Internet marketing firm launches new Internet marketing overhaul service.

Internet Search Marketing (ISM) a Temecula based SEO and Internet marketing consulting firm is proud to announce the immediate availability of their new “Internet marketing overhaul “, services. Daryl Clark owner of ISM states, “This new service is a great way for businesses of all sizes to review their Internet marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) processes and procedures at an affordable price without having to permanently retain a consultant. Companies are putting up websites and hoping people will come to them. We can help companies...
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