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Fascinating Research and Analysis of Social Networks

July 21st, 2010 2 Comments

I recently read this presentation by Paul Adams of Google on John Battelle’s Searchblog, and wanted to share it myself as I was quite taken by a number of the things that are put forth. First, I’m amazed at how quick of a read it is at 216 slides with notes! Second, as John notes, [...]

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Online Travel Changes Underway?

July 2nd, 2010 No Comments

Just a few quick thoughts, predicated by Google finally closing on their deal to purchase ITA Software, a flight information software company, for $700 million. If (or when) Apple comes out with a full featured iTravel and Microsoft continues along with the path that they’ve already set with Bing Travel, what will this mean for [...]

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Creating Video Content? Do you have a Video Sitemap? You should.

June 26th, 2010 No Comments

HT to ReelSEO.com for posting this video featuring Matt Cutts from Google discussing how anyone publishing online video should be sure to create and submit a Google video sitemap to ensure optimal indexing of their video content (notice how he mentions, “this Fall and into the future” – kind of important for those of us [...]

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Mobile Apps, How Accurate do They Need to Be? Ask Google Maps

May 31st, 2010 5 Comments

A lawsuit has been recently filed against Google Maps for allegedly providing “unsafe directions” for a pedestrian here in Park City, Utah back in January of 2009. There are a lot of people labeling this a frivolous lawsuit, see the comments on a Mashable post about the suit, but it makes me wonder if this case demonstrates [...]

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Interactive Content Editor and SEO

January 14th, 2010 No Comments

Here’s a quick observation on the speed of Google in terms of targeted SEO.  I recently posted about the Interactive Content Editor position that we’re in the process of interviewing for at the resort (sorry, the application process is now closed). I wound up Googling the phrase “Interactive Content Editor” as I’m in the process [...]

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A Blizzard About Google

August 8th, 2009 3 Comments

This past Tuesday, I took a few hours out of my last week of vacation, to attend “All About Google: How to rank higher for more keywords“. In this seminar, Trent Blizzard from Blizzard Internet Marketing lead a great discussion that ranged from basic Google SEO/SEM to many features that people in the tourism industry [...]

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