Link Building

Google Pac-Man Logo FTW

Posted on May 21, 2010 by adminComments

Today is Pac-Mans 30th Birthday and the folks at Google decided to create a playable logo for there US customers only. I didn’t even see any news until I used a US datacenter IP to check some rankings…thank goodness I do SEO. I played it a bit and managed to waste at least 30 minutes playing the game so I thought; might as well write about it.

Google May Update Explained

Posted on May 20, 2010 by adminComments

PRWeb Partners With Photobucket

Posted on May 20, 2010 by adminComments

PRWeb, the online news distribution service of Vocus, today announced a partnership with Photobucket, one the most popular photo sites on the Web. The partnership means photos uploaded to PRWeb as part of a multimedia news release will automatically be shared through a co-branded Photobucket+PRWeb site. This provides PRWeb customers with an easy way to expand their online footprint, obtain Web traffic through image search, and ultimately reach new customers with visual elements.

Press Release: PRWeb Partners with Photobucket to Expand Image Search

New York Times Online Paid Experiment: Let`s Watch

Posted on May 14, 2010 by adminComments

So the New York Times has announced that it will be charging for content on their website, a last ditch effort to make some money perhaps. The NYT does do pretty much all of its reporting, so you can see why they might be wanting to try this effort out. I for one, think it`s going to flop like just about every other attempt like this attempted. What is different however, is that the NYTimes.com website been seeing a lot of growth in the past 5 months, and hopefully this doesn`t hurt that effort. With a lot more popular content going away from the Google Index, I wonder if they`ll still manage to keep organic traffic up.

I think this is a great opportunity from a marketing and SEO perspective because we can monitor any changes, without footing the bill of course. I`m also wondering about how much organic and social media traffic they`ll lose to those big stories. I`ve seen other paid newspapers have there paid content landing pages rank well in Google, and that pissed me off quite a bit, so  hopefully we don`t see that here.

What are your thoughts?

Strange Google Listing Result

Posted on April 28, 2010 by adminComments

I was just Googling around for some local search stuff, non client related when I came across this strange anomaly within the SERPs. Forgive me if this isn’t something new, but I’ve never seen a Google listing pick up those characters from on page like this before, and it surely caught my eye. The link goes to a local Craigslist ad in which you can see why Google picked this up and is now showing it as is…so strange! Anyone got anything to say about this?