Daryl Clark's Search Engine Optimization Tips and Internet Marketing Information

Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share March 2012.

dsclarkkk — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:57:13 +0000

Comscore just released the Google, Yahoo and Bing search engine market share report for March 2012. According to them, “Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in March with 66.4 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 15.3 percent and Yahoo! Sites with 13.7 percent. Ask Network accounted for 3.0 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.6 percent.” Click here to read the rest of their data.

Facebook Timeline for business pages.

dsclarkkk — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:40:47 +0000

We all know nothing is constant when dealing with companies like Google and Facebook except for “CHANGE!” It can be overwhelming to stay on top of these changes when they occur. Facebook announced they will be converting all business pages to the Timeline format this weekend. Here is a great article about how you can take advantage of this new format that the associated changes. Click here to read the article.

Complaints Midwest Construction Group, Ellisville, Missouri

dsclarkkk — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:03:08 +0000

Addressing fake complaints against Midwest Construction Group, LLC. Midwest Construction Group has rapidly become one of the foremost and respected roofing companies within the St. Louis metropolitan area. Our website is: trustmcg.com.

As you may be aware competition is abundant in this industry. In an effort to cast a shadow on our exceptional reputation, someone (we believe a competitor) felt the need to fabricate a long winded fabricated tale against me and t the company I have built. They have posted there comments on one of the SCAM complaint sites, where the site owners don’t investigate allegations and essentially blackmail website owners into paying to have the fake complaints removed.

With that, I feel we owe it to our current and future customers to address this misrepresentation and set the record straight.

If you read the article on “pissed off consumer”, as a homeowner protecting your property please keep in mind the following:

#1 In researching the name - Written by Greg Melrose on August 5, 2011,

We found only one person in the entire United States by that name, of whom lives in Seattle Washington, not Chesterfield Missouri.

#2 If the allegations were indeed true, local television personalities would have been all over the alleged accusations. Midwest Construction Group, LLC is a member of good standing with the Better Business Bureau and we encourage our future customers to contact them in assuring our reputation in the industry.

#3 The Missouri State Attorney General views insurance fraud as a very serious matter.

Midwest Construction Group, LLC has filed its own claim with the Missouri State Attorney General against the website allowing such defamatory and unfounded accusations.

Midwest Construction Group, LLC mission statement –

“Maintain the highest standard of quality service and customer satisfaction”

Please address any comments or concerns to me personally at Dustin@trustmcg.com trustmcg.com

Thank you,

Dustin Green, Owner

Midwest Construction Group LLC

Google announces 40 changes in their search algorithm – February 2012

dsclarkkk — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:50:53 +0000

Google today announced 40 new changes in their search engine’s algorithm on February 27, 2012. Of these changes the two probably most interesting to search marketers are:

1. Improvements to ranking for local search results. [launch codename “Venice”] This improvement improves the triggering of Local Universal results by relying more on the ranking of our main search results as a signal.

2. Link evaluation. We often use characteristics of links to help us figure out the topic of a linked page. We have changed the way in which we evaluate links; in particular, we are turning off a method of link analysis that we used for several years. We often rearchitect or turn off parts of our scoring in order to keep our system maintainable, clean and understandable.

Unfortunately Google isn’t providing any specific data or reference points to support what these changes really are and how they can and will affect local and national search results. If you are involved in search engine optimization this is always a time to feel anxious since it makes it very difficult to understand the cause and effect between the work you are doing and your desired results. To read the entire body of this announcement click here.

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/search-quality-highlights-40-changes.html

New cash for gold in Temecula.

dsclarkkk — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:00:25 +0000

I’m pleased to announce the launching of the new Cash for Gold Temecula web site owned and operated by Temecula Jewelry and Coin. Temecula Jewelry and Coin is very different from the other Cash for Gold companies in Southwest Riverside County. They offer the highest value for your gold anywhere. They also make sure their customers receive personalized service and the respect they deserve. If you have been ripped off by other Cash for Gold companies, look no further. Temecula Jewelry and Coin is the place to buy and sell Gold Jewelry, Coins and Bullion in the Temecula Valley and surrounding communities.

11 Job Titles you won’t believe at Google.

dsclarkkk — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:57:40 +0000

Every now and again it is good to post something not so serious. I really like this article by the San Francisco Chronicle stating, “Google is an unconventional company. That extends to the company’s official policy on job titles which can be summarized as: whatever you want to put on your business card is pretty much OK.As a result, some Google employees have come up with some pretty offbeat titles for themselves.” Click here to read the rest of this article.

Insights into how Google + impacts personalized search.

dsclarkkk — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:59:25 +0000

I seldom link back to articles about SEO because I find most of them just reiterate basic information that has been rewritten over and over. However this article by the team at SEOMoz about how Google + completely changes the game when it comes to search engine results is an absolutely fantastic article. Click here to read this great piece written by Erica McGillivray.

Google quality raters handbook 2011.

admin — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:37:56 +0000

This post comes from Search Engine Land. ” The documents are used by Google Quality Raters to aid them in classifying queries, measuring relevancy, and rating the search results. To do so, the Quality Rater must understand how Google works and this document has a bunch of that. Let me pull out some of those details in easy to read bullet points.” Click here to read the rest of this article.

Complaints Cherie Young online marketing strategies – real estate web sites.

dsclarkkk — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:05:34 +0000

In my 13 years of working with customers on the Internet, I have never dealt with a service provider worse than Cherie Young of Online Marketing Strategies. I have so many examples of this ineptness as well as her devious nature, I cannot possibly list them all here. However, if you are considering doing any kind of business with Cherie Young of Online Marketing Strategies for real estate website design or any other project, I would recommend going to a dentist and getting a root canal without anesthesia before I would recommend working with her. I maintain a long list of under references of unhappy customers and complaints that I would be glad to share with you if you want to do real due diligence before spending a dime with this service provider. Feel free to contact me 951-286-5551 if you would like to discuss my complaints and those of others who used to use her services.

Google, Yahoo and Bing Search Engine Market Share August 2011.

dsclarkkk — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:03:20 +0000

Google, Yahoo and Bing August 2011 market share was just announced by Comscore.com last week. According to them, “Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in August with 64.8 percent market share (down 0.3 percentage points), followed by Yahoo sites with 16.3 percent (up 0.3 percentage points) and Microsoft sites with 14.7 percent (up 0.3 percentage points).” Click here to read the rest of their press release.