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Over the past long Victoria Day weekend, there’s a new development in SEO offering firms that just may affect us canucks too! The Gannett Media chain with over $6 billion in revenue, has apparently begun offering up pilot SEO services to SMBs in the Phoenix, AZ community! Read more about same here….

Gannett are the folks who own many major dailys in various US cities along with radio and tv stations too — not to mention their USAToday paper, they will attempt to provide SEO services to various advertisers and other small/medium enterprise businesses in an attempt to become a one stop marketing shop in that pilot community. Read More

Okay, the report is in from a combined Internet Retailer Survey and the numbers are pretty impressive!

As we thought, the survey which encompasses chains, catalog firms, web-only merchants and manufacturing firms too, shows that overall, more than 50% of all attributable sales are results of Search Engine Marketing (SEM)!

WooHoo! Knew it! Kinda makes my day, eh…but let’s dig into those numbers a little shall we? Read More

There are some people who think SEO is expensive. This is, of course, a matter of perspective. If you go online because you’ve bought into the scam still being pitched that you can make big money with almost no investment, and you set up a website for under $1000 using offshore labor, then the idea of paying $500, $1000, or $1500 a month might sound expensive for SEO costs Read More

BizSugar has been added to TheBookmarketer, a popular tool that helps bloggers make their blogs more social-bookmarking-friendly Read More

I need to lead with this one! Mike Blumenthal is a New York state based SEO who specializes in LOCAL search for his many clients on both a state and national basis, and he’s got a real jam-packed SEO Tactics report entiled “Where Social and Rank Meet…” that you can look over here…

With info therein on social rankings, rank relevance, where we all stand in the google scheme of things and much much more, means that anyone who ever thought about Social ranking needs to read this one! Read More

Well, if you’re like me, you’ve often glanced at the glossy mag entitled “Consumer Reports” at the local supermarket checkout line…but if you’re like me you seldom every buy. I mean honestly, who needs to know the “Top 10 Refridgerator Models for 2010!” anyways…I mean come on, eh? There’s only so much to research and once you determine how many Canadians you can stock in the “beer crisper,” how much more do you need to know, eh? Ahh…but that’s not ALL that this well known, big-rep magazine offers to it’s readers, I’ve just learned! Read More

The web is awash this morning with how Google has updated/changed/modified their UI (user interface) and while that is apparent in the US at google.com — us canucks up here in Canada using google.ca didn’t get any of that love!

As you can see from the top logo, the colorations have changed — Google has both brightened the hues of the various primary shades used as well as decreasing the 3D bevelled look and lightened the drop-shadow too. Read More

So you optimize your website for Google, right? And Yahoo and Bing? But have you stopped to think of some of the alternative search engines that don’t call themselves “search engines”? Places your target market is searching Read More

Okay, you’re thinking that hey, Facebook is one of those “social” sites, right? So who’s worried about privacy when you “choose” to be social online, eh?

Sigh….there are some MAJOR concerns that are apparently coming more to the forefront for us canucks and here’s the Canadian skinny on same!
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Friday a teenager rang my doorbell. Usually when kids come to my door they're trying to sell me crap that I don't want, but as I prepared to say "no thanks" he let me know that his motives were not financial. He told me he was in a group for young entrepreneurs, and as part of an effort to practice speaking in public his assignment was to go door-to-door and introduce himself.. Read More