The Vizion Search Engine Optimization Blog
- 2008Jul9Twitter Caught Spamming Google?
Since I am pretty active on many social networks, and since I generally use the same username on most social networks (like many people do), I find it necessary to monitor my user id. I like to watch how many times my username shows up in Google, among other places. I noticed recently that twitter.com has recently made a change to their site that is causing them to spam Google and the other search engines by allowing duplicate content to get indexed by the search engine spiders.
First off, here is a little history. I also like to watch my username in the search engine results pages because I am curious as to which profile of mine has more “link juice” or which one is considered to be more popular. Since I use the same username it is pretty easy for me to identify my profiles (or at least the profiles that I want people to know about). - 2008Jun30Google Affiliate Network has Launched via Performics
Google announced today that DoubleClick Performics is now the Google Affiliate Network. I just spoke with Durk Price of eAccountable who has launched 15 programs with the service over the past 12 months and is very glad that the network is now part of the Google brand. You can see the benefits that Durk has experienced using the network by reading eAccountable’s success story at the Google Affililate Network. - 2008Jun27New Survey Says Consumers Turning to Internet Because of Economy
A new June 2008 survey of 1243 Internet users reveals that consumers expect to reduce their overall spending in 2008. However, the respondents said that they will be decreasing their offline spending and not their online spending. - 2008Jun17AIM – Come back and play?
We use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) for a lot of our communication in the office. Today, our AIM went out for about 15-20 minutes. It wasn’t our internet connection because my AIM at home was out too. So that leads me to wonder, why has our AIM gone away? End result after searching for an answer, it must have been a scheduled AIM server update because it came back up on both computers at the same time. The world is again back to normal. This goes to show you, when AIM goes down, the stability of the universe decreases.
- 2008Jun16GeoSpot Deep Local Search Launches Mobile Web Service
GeoSpot, a location-based services and social activities site has launched the Beta release of GeoSpot(TM) Mobile Web service. This Mobile Web search service is a search of local businesses and other POIs (points of interest) that are open either now or at a specified time. Instead of listing POIs of which many may be closed, consumers only see those that are currently open or those POIs that are opening soon.
If you use the Mobile Web, GeoSpot’s Mobile Web service allows you to use contextual navigation to find related POIs. You can see the specific location on a map or you can simply use the phone dial feature to immediately contact the businesses. According to Geospot, Inc., GPS capability will be added soon. 
The GeoSpot Mobile Web service currently works on any mobile phone that has a web browser. All you have to do is connect www.geospot.com using your phone’s web browser and the GeoSpot servers will automatically provide the version appropriate for your mobile phone.
From what I can tell, GeoSpot is currently available for [...]- 2008Jun13WordPress Tips: Get your own WordPress Plugin Information using the get_plugins() Function
I searched for this info and couldn’t find anything that helped me, until I thought to myself: The Plugin version is displayed on the plugins.php page of WordPress. I didn’t want to put the Plugin information in two places, making it cumbersome to update. So I tracked down the code and did some testing. I got more than I was looking for and knew I had to share.
- 2008Jun11Excel Tips: Removing the Auto Formatting that Changes your data into Links
I’m a data guy. I like data. I don’t plan on putting links into my excel files and I would rather make them links individually on a case-to-case basis. This is where an option in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 comes in handy. Here are the Four Steps which I took to remove the “Auto Linking” that has bothered me for months.
- 2008Jun5Vizion Interactive Newsletter – June 5th, 2008
Letter from the President
It’s been quite a while since our last newsletter, so allow me an opportunity to catch up with each of you: Over the past year, we have doubled sales and (over) doubled our staff. As we’ve added people to our staff, we have also added more senior-level talent to the team, including the addition of Kim Patterson (CFO), Bill Hartzer (SEO/Social Media), Mark Barrera (Client Services/SEO/PPC) and Chris Sivori (SEO/PPC). With this growth, we are also opening an office in Overland Park, Kansas, slated to open June 15, 2008. Overland Park is a suburb of Kansas City on the border of Kansas and Missouri.We have recently launched Service Experts’ new website www.serviceexperts.com, signed on Voxant/TheNewsRoom and Mannatech for Social Media Marketing programs and added Bluegreen Corporation, Cookies By Design, and The Thomas Group, among others, to our SEO and PPC rosters.
Our portfolio of services grows deeper every month, so please stop by our website and learn more about our Email Marketing services, Social Media Marketing and our exciting new tool, iMarketing Manager. If you have any questions, or believe that there may be a fit for us to work [...]
- 2008Jun3Contemporary Surgery and Convera Launch SurgeryFindIt.com Vertical Search Engine
Contemporary Surgery, along with help from Convera, has launched a new search engine at SURGERYFINDIT.COM. This new search engine tool provides targeted search results for surgeons.
Contemporary Surgery’s goal is to provide general surgeons with “a wealth of peer-reviewed, practical clinical data and practice information”. SURGERYFINDIT.COM attempts to deliver “editorially selected Web site searches” to their end users by editing out what they call “extraneous and unrelated sites”.Searches initiated through SURGERYFINDIT.COM will direct searches on surgical resources such as associations, peer-reviewed journals, medical schools and major medical centers, and suppliers of surgical devices.
As a sample, I searched for “gall bladder” because I had hired a great general surgeon here in the Dallas area to take out my gall bladder when I needed it removed. Turns out that they have a lot of good information, as evidenced by a search. I could see SurgeryFindIt.com very useful for both people like me as well as general surgeons.
Contemporary Surgery is published by Dowden Health Media.Dowden Health Media, a division of Lebhar-Friedman, Inc., is a full-service [...]
- 2008May27Jipingmi.com China Real Estate Search Engine Launches English Version
Jipingmi, the leading real estate search engine in China, has launched an English version. The English version of this real estate search engine, located at English.jipingmi.com, collects property listings from several different property listing sources that are in English and organizes the data into one search platform.Jipingmi’s crawler currently aggregates over two million real estate property listings from more than 100 real estate websites in 21 cities in China. They have over 5,000,000 page views a month and boast 180,000 registered users.
Looking at the search results, there is still a fair amount of Chinese still included in the search results, but since the data is generally aggregated from many other sources, I can see how it would be helpful. What’s interesting is that although this is primarily in English, some of the Google AdSense ads that loaded for me (I’m in Texas), Google still loaded ads in Chinese.
Although this primarily is in English, I noticed on their page that there is not any language meta tag on the page to indicate that the page (or the subdomain) [...]
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