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Archive for February, 2010

Google is Buzz’n

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Today Google has officially released Google Buzz. Google Buzz is built in to Gmail and is a new method that allows you to share video, pictures and other updates. Buzz connects with other social media sites such as Twitter, Flikr and Picasa and aggregates all information on whoever you are following all in one place.

An interesting topic at the Google press conference talked about how Buzz content would be indexed. You can be sure that when we have a few spare moments we will be experimenting with Google’s new Buzz service. go and check out buzz.google.com for further information.

Does Link Order Affect SEO

Friday, February 5th, 2010

There has been a lot of debate in the search engine optimization field lately regarding the order in which a navigational link appears on a webpage and how much weight it is given based on it’s order.

Since the dawn of SEO it has been believed that the earliest possible location to fit a link into a web page meant that link would become the most valuable on the page.

Matt Cutts from Google has recently posted a video clearly stating that Google does not award any extra value to links that appear higher up on the webpage. This announcement has sparked a lot of interesting conversations across the web. IMO if you concentrate on clean coding as well as proper website design and architecture your link value received should be automatically designated to the word or phrase you choose.

Here is Matt Cutts from Google with an SEO Video:

Winner Reputation Management Award

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Please forgive us for another post where we toot our own horn but, Beep, Beep.

SearchStrategist has once again been handed the Best In Search Award for Online Reputation Management Companies.

Our Online Brand Reputation Management Services are constantly evolving and expanding to provide online businesses the assurance that their company and corporate image are protected and in good hands.

Keep an eye on our Brand Reputation Management Services page for new innovations and developments.