Get on the Map - Sacramento Search Engine Optimization & Social Media

Remember the cute Google ads on the Super Bowl? They’ve released the formula so you can create your own Google Search Stories. Customize with different musical soundtracks – easy as pie to complete.

Sacramento Internet Marketing Workshop Please contact us about attending one of our FREE internet marketing workshops – you’ll learn about how Google’s social products can help you market your business. Thursday, September 10th, 6:30pm Drexel University One Capitol Mall Sacramento, CA 95814 About Chris Lang Named the #1 Google Friend Connect and Google Wave authority [...]

What are you doing to improve your online reputation? In the past, a business had control over your public relations – you chose what you projected – you spent a lot of time thinking about your logo and what kind of business card you should design. And it made a difference. You didn’t have to [...]

When you’re looking for a restaurant in Sacramento, are you amazed to see a listing for 24 Hour Locksmith? Today, for the third time in a month, I stumbled across a highjacked listing. Each time I researched who the original listing belonged to and called the restaurant. Most of the time, the person answering the [...]

Matt Cutts, told WordCamp attendees about Google’s PageRank. People think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page. Other people think of the web as an link matrix in which [...]

Are you watching your key metrics? In the beginning, there were “hit counters”. Occasionally you will still see one at the bottom of a website, prominently displaying the number of hits over a given time frame. There was a time when the success of a website was gauged solely on this number, with a site [...]

Which of these best describes your attitude about reputation? “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it” Benjamin Franklin “I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.” Mae West A recent survey claims that 1 in [...]

When they talk about you, do you like what they say? Even more important, when they talk about you, do you know what they say? As a business owner, you need to generate good word of mouth advertising to survive and the internet provides fantastic opportunity to generate word of mouth. Which would your prefer: [...]

It’s sometimes hard to believe, and even harder to keep up with, all the changes you face as a small business.  Just 18 months ago, the Google organic listings was not the most important marketing a small to medium size local business must deal with.  But now it truly is.  Depending on your industry, 30 [...]

Sacramento Marketing Workshops & Events Mari Smith, the leader in using Facebook to grow your business, has a very cool calendar widget on her blog. I’m duplicating it here! To do the same, go to your Google Calendar widget, click on settings, click on customize the color, etc.. You must add mode=AGENDA and reset the [...]