Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Search Engine Optimization

Seven Reasons Your SEO Efforts Are Stalling

For just about any company today with a Web presence, improving visibility of a website or a Web page for search engines is a priority. Unfortunately, many businesses lack the resources to outsource the job to SEO experts and results are often mixed at best.

Jun 15 by | Post a Comment
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Bing, Google, Yahoo Tell Us How to Get Better Search Results

Sometimes a straight line isn’t always the most direct approach.

After temporarily setting aside their differences, the Web’s three leading search companies – Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo! – have launched a standardized markup … Read More

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Pew Media Study Offers Some Clues for Online Marketers

Online marketing specialists spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get people to their client’s websites, and almost as much time learning what those visitors do once they arrive. In … Read More

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10 Steps to Increase Your AdWords ROI

Increasing your AdWords return on investment can yield more than just a few clicks.

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This Week in Cool Stuff #2

What grills faster, an Android, WinPho7, or iPhone4?
Also, the $50 billion online ad opportunity; and we visit MySpace for the first time in over a year (just to try out the new Facebook Connect feature).

Nov 19 by | Post a Comment
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This Week in Cool Stuff #1

This Week in Cool Stuff is a new series of posts that simply lists a few cool things that we come across online. We don’t have a lot of time to curate the list, … Read More

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A Google Story: Blue Fountain Media

The marketing team at Blue Fountain Media has created a search story illustrating the way one of our customers might use Google…

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Apr 26 by Ryan Matzner | Post a Comment

Proof That Users Ignore (Nearly) Everything

Another great lesson that things may not always be what the appear to be on the Internet.

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Stop Asking When Google Caffeine Will Go Live: It Already Has

There’s been a lot of speculation about Google Caffeine. When will it launch? What will change? What will happen to my results?

The speculation needs to stop. Caffeine is almost certainly live right now—the … Read More

Jan 26 by Ryan Matzner | Post a Comment

Search Engine Reputation Management: Kryptonite Locks case study

(source: ZaCky ॐ)

In terms of branding, Kryptonite Locks has a lot of coolness factors working for them – it’s the choice lock of bike messengers in metropolitan cities (especially here in New … Read More

Jun 19 by Blue Fountain Media | 1 Comment

Why do you do both design and marketing?

Because they work best together.

Good marketing brings in qualified traffic; good design turns visitors into customers. If you can improve both at once, the benefits compound.

When we build sites, we’re looking at … Read More

May 5 by Blue Fountain Media | Post a Comment

Top 10 mistakes companies make when thinking about PPC

It’s amazing how many poorly researched, poorly written, and poorly targeted paid search campaigns I’ve come across on the major search engines without even really looking for them. It’s obvious why Google runs those … Read More

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Phloem bundle: How the most random keywords will bring visitors to your website

Regardless of what your website is about, if you have a blog, it is quite easy to bring a great number of visitors to one of your blogs by watching Google’s Hot Trends. This is a list of what keywords are being looked up the most at the current time.

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SourceTool.com could use some SEO

The NYT recently published a story, “Stuck in Google’s Doghouse,” about Sourcetool.com owner Dan Savage who sent a 4,000-word letter to the antitrust division of the Justice Department to fight against the … Read More

Sep 24 by Blue Fountain Media | Comments (2)

Olympic Searching – Counting medals

Now that the Olympics are over, I decided it would be time to take a look at how every nation did at the Games. Checking the 3 majors search engines for the word “Olympics”, … Read More

Aug 25 by Blue Fountain Media | Post a Comment