Last week Google announced that they have opened access to Google Voice for everyone in the U.S. (previously available by invite only). According to Google, “Google Voice isn’t ready for businesses and schools quite yet, but we’re exploring additional functionality for organizations.” We will stay tuned for future updates and functionality, but this is a [...]
July 5th, 2010 by CPDScott | No Comments »
Imagine you are trying to find information on effectively marketing your business online. As of today, most of your searches lead you to company websites and blogs that are vague, incomplete and ultimately try to make you buy something. Now imagine that when you were a member of GoogleMe and searched…
July 1st, 2010 by CPDToph | No Comments »
Google has recently added a new sponsored link feature to Google Maps listings that is meant to increase the effectiveness of your listing on Google Maps. The new feature is called a ‘Sponsored Tag’. For a flat fee of $25 per month. You can add a sponsored link to your listing via Google Places. The [...]
June 17th, 2010 by CPDScott | No Comments »
Create and Verify your Google Profile before the official launch of GoogleMe . You can use it as an OpenID, pull Flickr, Twitter, Buzz, Picasa and more!
May 19th, 2010 by CPDToph | 6 Comments »
When advertising with search engines like Google Adwords, there are many strategies to successfully converting prospects à customers. When it comes to online advertising goals, there are two main strategies that are used: Branding or Direct Response. Branding: Branding is when your advertisement and subsequent landing page is used to direct users into an “awareness” [...]
April 8th, 2010 by CPDScott | 1 Comment »
Crown Point Design was recently recognized by Google as a favorite location on Google Maps. We received a letter from Google that included a 5×7 decal that is meant to be placed in your storefront window. On the decal there is a unique 1×1 inch bar code that can be scanned by a Smartphone by [...]
December 7th, 2009 by CPDScott | 3 Comments »
Google has recently rolled out new functionality in Google Maps to help find homes for sale. According to a post on the Google Australia Blog, “Some of us have been working on a particularly interesting project that combines Google Maps and search technology – we’ve been trying to work out if your search query in [...]
November 20th, 2009 by CPDScott | 5 Comments »
This tutorial outlines 5 simple On-Page SEO strategies. Anyone that has experience surfing the web should have an understanging of the topics covered.
March 17th, 2009 by CPDScott | No Comments »
There are two types of sitemaps that you can create to help search engines crawl your website. The first is an HTML file labeled sitemap.html. This file provides the links to all the pages within your website in a simple list fashion and usually categorized. They HTML file helps search engines figure out how all the [...]
February 16th, 2009 by CPDScott | 3 Comments »
Google recently announced its plans to discontinue the services of Google Video. This comes as no surprise to many as rumors have gone around for a while about Google’s plans to increase the use and relevance of YouTube videos. YouTube Google purchased YouTube in Oct. of 2006 for a lofty $1.65 billion. YouTube is still seeing [...]
January 27th, 2009 by CPDScott | 1 Comment »