If you don’t know what sentiment analysis is, it might be time to learn. Even if you don’t care about its more popular uses, search marketers need to get acquainted…
Read MoreGoogle loses adult supervision
Probably the biggest industry story this past month was the announcement that Eric Schmidt is being kicked upstairs at Google, with Larry Page taking the wheel. The triumvirate (along with…
Read MoreLocal Search isn’t always so local
You’re probably hearing a lot about local search. Small businesses are wondering about how much they need to do, but many big businesses haven’t realized how important it is for…
Read MoreCan social media be the new white hat SEO technique?
Several months ago, I met up with Mike Moran in New York and we were chatting about search. Well, at first, we were getting to know each other. I told…
Read MoreAn open letter to Google on local marketing and people
We often sing the praises of Google for its role in the development of the modern day commercial Internet and really one of the only well-functioning areas of the current…
Read MoreNow’s the time for your business to think local
Recently, I have been talking about local Internet marketing and the rapid developments in the area. Well, as we start 2011, there is a strange sound in the local Internet…
Read More2011: The year of the online SMB
Because this is my last post here at Mike’s Biznology blog for 2010, I am going to do something that I never ever do—make some predictions for upcoming year. I…
Read MoreGrowing your business in a world without Google
How much of your traffic comes from search engines? How much from Google? If you’re like most businesses, you probably get a fair bit of your traffic from the Big…
Read MoreWhat Groupon showed us about Google
This week we watched Google, the search engine monster with the mountain of cash from Mountain View, be rejected by Groupon, the little startup that could (as in “could” be…
Read MoreWhen is social search coming? What? It’s here?
“Social search” has been discussed for a long time, but in the last couple of months it has sneaked up on some of us. Like Web 2.0, people talked about…
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