A scant three months after Apple released its iPhone 4S, the debate over how the device’s speech –recognition personal assistant, AKA Siri, will change search is in full effect.

A few short years ago only 54 percent of small businesses had websites. Today the number has climbed to 82 percent and as more and more local businesses continue to expand their online presence it is increasingly harder to garner, and hold, the attention of consumers.

Email use has grown from 4 percent of the mobile market to 20 percent in two years, according to a recent study. The bottom line is, if you’re not optimizing your email marketing for mobile, you’re missing opportunities.

There are seemingly limitless opportunities to create the type of content for a website that others will want to link to. However, when putting that theory into practice the numbers don’t always add up.  It’s … Read More

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.

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

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

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

Last week we saw that Google had done a better job at serving up Olympics-related words with events listings in a one box format. However, now that the Games are underway, they appear to … Read More

As I looked up when the swimming events in Beijing were going to occur, I noticed that the first results that appear in Google are a one box with an Olympic swimming icon alongside … Read More