Google Overhauls Place Pages

Local searchers and local businesses will see a fairly substantially different Place Page the next time they’re poking around Google Maps/Places. The company announced a new look Thursday and promises more changes to come. The new layout of Place Pages puts a heavy emphasis on reviews. More specifically, it emphasizes reviews from Google users and no longer shows review content from third party ... Read More...

Using Black Hat SEO will get you in trouble with Google.

This article in the NY Times talks about how JC Penny got caught by Google using prohibited "black hat" SEO to influence their ranking in organic search results. A big no, no by Google. Kids, don't try this at home or on your website.   And if your SEO professional offers to do this, find someone else.  Because if you ... Read More...

Google now using Facebook/Twitter Links as signal for search ranking

Google is now coming out and acknowledging that they are using Facebook and Twitter links to influence search ranking.  This gives even more priority for businesses to use Social Media like Facebook and Twitter.  I think that Google is looking towards this approach to better define the reputation component of it search algorithm.  We know that in the past 2 years reputation on the Internet ... Read More...

Google AdWords Certified Partner

  [caption id="attachment_205" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Carlos Garcia is a Google Adwords Certified Partner"][/caption] I am happy to announce that I successfully completed the re-certification process with the Google Adwords program and I’m now a Google Adwords Certified Partner.  The new requirements to be a certified partner are quite substantial compared to the previous qualification process.  To be certified with Google an individual ... Read More...

Facebook to Take on Google?

Can Facebook go up against Google?  In just 6 years Facebook has gained 500 million users and has what is considered the Holly Grail of demographics.   Watch this interesting report on what Facebook is planning to do with all this very valuable information. Read More...

How Google Works- Plain and Simple.

Have you ever wondered how Google gets you the information you are looking for and how they decide what to show you? Here is a video that's simple to understand.  Take a few minutes to watch it and educate youself on the most useful technology of our time. How Google search works video.  Click here to watch. Read More...