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Google Sidewiki is becoming closed by Google. Apparently this is just another certainly one of Google’s goods that failed. I’m not precisely sure why Google Sidewiki by no means caught on using the public, but perhaps it is due to the truth that Google Sidewiki has been so difficult to locate, being virtually hidden within […]

For most businesses, providing a link to your location on Google Maps is a must. It is a part of doing business on the web for a local business, especially if you have a location where you want people to visit and do business with you. Some businesses, though, may have to rethink that plan,

Every year, Standing Dog holds a Halloween Costume Contest. Everyone here in our offices are encouraged to dress up as some sort of Halloween character, in a costume. Then, at about 3:00pm, we tally the votes and see who wins. There are prizes, of course, and all sorts of Halloween fun.

Today, Shelby at Standing Dog noticed a new Google AdWords Format of ads that totally creeped her out. This is no Halloween joke. In fact, the creep factor is here big-time in this case.

There’s a new hot plugin in town, called Bonfire Twitter Chat.

Recently, I posted a review of SEM Rush, a great search engine marketing tool that can help you with your keyword research.

There are a lot of search engine marketing tools out there. And some are free, like my CombineWords.com keyword tool, and others are paid tools.

When it comes to building websites and optimizing your website for the search engines (search engine optimization), the importance of the meta description tag sometimes is not really clear for a lot of people nowadays. The meta description tag plays a key role in search engine optimization, because it is often used in the actual

A lot of friends ask me about what I do for a living. I tell them that I’m in internet marketing. I recently spoke to a neighbor who told me that they were looking for work, as the economy has been tough for them.

The title tag is one of the most important parts of any web page. It describes what is on the page, and is often used by the search engines in their search results. Here is why the title tag is so important to search engine optimization, and why it is part of my series of

So, you have a website and it’s profitable. Well, sort of profitable. Okay, it’s not very profitable. But you are getting conversions, right? You are making “some” money. Or you are getting some leads. Whatever your ultimate goal is, one way to make more money or get more leads from your website is to increase

For search engine optimization purposes, to increase the amount of traffic to your website, you also need to be highly visible on other websites that are on-topic to your website, you need to get links from other websites to your website. That concept has been around for many years now, and overall online visibility is

So, what does Justin Bieber have in common with Lauren’s dad? I mean really, if you read this headline you would probably not think that they have much in common. But take a look at what really these two, Justin Bieber and Lauren’s dad, have in common.

How do you know whether or not you should renew your domain name? I personally tend to think that if you’re in doubt, you should renew it. But, there is a better way. Here are fourteen questions to ask yourself to help you decide on whether your should renew your domain name or not.

There have been studies that show Internet surfers that have to wait longer than 10-15 seconds will become frustrated and leave the page and seek other options.

Chances are that your website probably already is using Google Analytics in order to track the visitors to your website. Many websites do, and it can be a very effective tool. If you are not using Google Analytics yet, then you may want to consider setting up a Google Account and installing Google Analytics. While

For Search Engine Optimization, in order to show the search engines (mainly Google), that your website is “worthy” of ranking well in their search results, you need to boost your domain authority. When you are creating a website and adding links to direct people to your site, you must consider the type of domains directing

Today on my blog, I posted about Google Penalties and what they really mean. There are a lot of various reasons why the Google search engine can decide to penalize your website, and not list it as high in the search engine results as it should be listed. Then again, there are also Google search

I find it rather interesting to note today that Google registered several typo domain names related to Google Analytics. They bought domain names that are apparently common typos of the word “Google Analytics”, the domain names that are related to the hyphenated version of their Google-Analytics.com domain name. What I find interesting is their choice

If you have been on Twitter for a while, you know that a lot of people always try to talk to celebrities via Twitter. It is their chance to correspond with celebrities who tweet on a regular basis.

Network Solutions, a popular domain name registrar, is revealing the real identities of domain name owners even though the they have opted-in and paid for the Network Solutions domain name privacy service. When a domain name is registered, buyers have the option of paying $9.99 per year extra to keep their domain name ownership private.

In today’s age of the internet, there a a lot of jobs that allow you to work remotely. It is not only jobs that are related to the internet like a web designer, internet marketing, social media, or copywriter, there are a lot of jobs that allow you to work remotely without any issues. Some

Today, I did a quick experiment with a brand new domain name to see if social sharing and social media SEO is still a viable option. I aimed to prove that social media an social sharing is very much a needed part of your overall search engine optimization and website marketing strategy. In this experiment,

When you have a great product, you have spent time writing high quality content, and your website has great web design, then it is time to start attracting the ideal website visitor to your site. But how do you attract them? What exactly is the ideal website visitor? On the Standing Dog blog, Paul does

Apparently Foursquare is claiming victory over Facebook Places, especially since VentureBeat.com is saying that Facebook Places is now dead. Well, not exactly, folks. Apparently Facebook Places is still alive, so it is a case that Facebook Places was simply buried alive?

Facebook has made some recent changes that will make sure that there are no more unflattering Facebook photos that are embarrassing to you or your friends. Facebook is making some big changes over the next few days, and approving and rejecting tags before they go public is one of them. That’s not just photo tags,

Standing Dog is hiring. And we have been receiving a lot of resumes for various open positions that we have, some in social media, some in Search Engine Optimization, and even in the Creative (web design, etc.) areas. I know that standard resumes in Microsoft Word are acceptable. But to stand out, is it acceptable

After reading the latest report from Imperva about search engine vulnerabilities and hacking, I am pretty disturbed that the search engines are not doing enough to stop hackers from finding web vulnerabilities. In this latest test, hackers were able to perform more than 80,000 search queries at Google in one day that revealed sites that

For a period of time yesterday, Ripoffreport.com was removed from Google, totally de-indexed. None of their pages were in the Google search results. They were not banned, though. We can learn from this, and I examined whether or not removing yourself from Google hurts your search engine rankings. Does Removing Your Website from Google Hurt

Just recently, well, today in fact, Twitter has added a new option that allows you to upload images to Twitter from directly within the web interface. You no longer have to use some sort of other service to link out to your photo. I think this is great, and it’s about time that we can

Previously, I wrote on my blog about how to get your Google+ Plus posts ranked in Google, and how you can get them to show up in the Google search results. Up until recently, Google was indexing about 200 to 300 new Google+ Plus posts that were marked as Public. However, Google has now stopped

Did you know? You Should Not Tweet About Burnt Pancakes. When she was served a stack of burnt pancakes at a popular restaurant chain, she decided to post on Twitter about it instead of complaining to the waitress. Here are a few lessons learned from a social media experience gone awry: do not Tweet about

Without a doubt, Google+ Plus and the Google +1 Button are new. So new, in fact, that we are still debating on the actual impact that the Google Plus and Plus One Buttons are going to have on search engine marketing. There are, though, things that we know already, so let’s review what we know

Google recently launched Google Hotel Finder, a place that Google says will help you find the perfect hotel. Using Google Hotel Finder, you can search for the perfect hotel. On the Standing Dog blog, I wrote a post about how you can boost your rankings in the Google Hotel Finder search results.

Facebook is suing a lot of people/companies over what they claim is a massive attack on its brand. There are a lot of different companies and individuals being sued this time, and this Facebook domain name lawsuit is definitely a large one.

Yesterday, Facebook launched their Facebook Video Calling service.

I am amazed by how many people are too quick to blame SEO when it comes to bad search results in Google. In a recent blog post, the Encosia blog appears to be blaming search engine optimization for how a web page got a good search engine ranking in Google.

The Weather Channel does not have a history of purchasing a lot of domain names. So, when I saw that they recently purchased a bunch of social weather domain names, I was interested in predicting what their plans are. I suspect that in the future that how we get our weather is going to become

From what I can tell based on a large purchase of domain names today by Google, the online search giant is planning some sort of campaign to encourage us to “get online”.

It looks like we are just about to get a new AOL Tech Guru. Based on a few new domain names that AOL has purchased today, including AOL Tech Guru.com, it appears that AOL is going to either rebrand their currently-owned tech guru (perhaps Engadget is a likely target), or start a completely new site

Google recently introduced the Google +1 button for websites, and Google would like you to add the Google +1 button to your site.

Schema.org is a new collaboration by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! to start standardizing website code. They are trying to help you code your website in a better way so that they can understand your site better and its contents.

Are you living in a social media bubble? Have you had to explain, multiple times, what the word Twitter or Facebook means, or even what social media means?

When large groups of domain names are purchased such as the one I came across today, most of the time it indicates that the company purchasing them has major plans in the works.

According to a new tool by Google called Google Correlate, you can look back at a lot of data. So, I decided to search Google Correlate for Search Engine Optimization.

In April 2011 I first reported that Microsoft had acquired 47 domain names related to something (a brand or a company) named Synsup Labs.

Perhaps in a move to protect their Bing.com brand, Microsoft has recently purchased eight search engine optimization for Bing domain names.

comScore data for the month of March 2011 shows that Google has 90 percent market share when it comes to search queries conducted in Latin America. 9 out of 10 searched conducted in Latin America are conducted on a Google-owned website.

A good friend that is not very internet savvy asked me recently about what I do for a living. I told them about search engine optimization, and then thought that I would explain the history behind it.

Google is not following their own webmaster guidelines on their own web site.