Posts Tagged ‘Enterprise’

How to Block Sitelinks in Google Search Results

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

How Is Your Web Site Represented in Search Engine Results Pages?

When searching for your Web site, you want to see your Web site listing in the SERPs (search engine results pages) to be the representation of your company/site. For instance, you want the title and the snippet to include the information about your site/page and a marketing statement that will generate clicks. This can be done by optimizing your title tag and meta description tag. But what about sitelinks? Are these links showing up in the SERPs satisfactory?

Streisand Effect - A Lesson for Enterprise

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

The Streisand Effect is a term that refers to an event where an individual or organization attempts to censor, inhibit, or otherwise block access to information on the Web, and subsequently the attempt to block the information foments and increases the interest in the information massively. The end result is that the involvement intended to block the spread of the information turns out to extend its reach and ironically push the information to many many more people via the Web.

Facebook Vanity URLs - Are You Ready?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Facebook users will be able to claim “Vanity URLs” to customize the Web addresses profiles starting at midnight Eastern on Saturday, according to a post on the Facebook blog. Currently, users’ profiles URLs have been structured as a string of numbers – as seen here:

Enterprise Level Search Discussion

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Jay Middleton III, Senior Manager of Worldwide Search Marketing at Adobe talks at the May GSI Social Media Brunch about enterprise level search and how it can scale for smaller businesses. Thursday, May 7th at 11:00 am Pacific.

Speaking The Customer’s Language

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Marketing on the Web is less about telling your customers what you want them to hear and more about giving them information they need. Brands who cannot embrace this concept will lose trust (and clicks) in the world of digital marketing. The keys to success here are in doing this now, doing it well, and doing it honestly.

Twitter, Brand Management, and the New Social Search

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Yesterday, in a post on my personal blog, I called Twitter a “Real Time Capable Social Search Engine.” Little did I know that elsewhere on the web, Lew Moorman was proposing Twitter as Google’s first real threat to search dominance. I am not prepared to go that far. However, I am absolutely in agreement that Twitter will be used increasingly as a search engine by its users, and is certainly poised to play a major role as social search matures.

Creating Value Through Search

Monday, January 5th, 2009

How can marketers optimize their Web sites to make sure they rank highly in consumer search? They can begin by answering a few simple questions about the content on the site that may serve as a report card for gauging performance and the “value” it delivers to patients.