Mike Wilton

Google announced yesterday that they super sized their search box.  I haven’t personally seen the changes when I visit Google.com, but a number of blogs, colleagues, and Twitter friends have mentioned the new phenomenon.  Google’s claims that the change was, “because it symbolizes our focus on search and because it makes our clean, minimalist homepage even easier and more fun to use”  I think they just had search box envy.  Below is a comparison of the top 3 search engines…

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If you’re in the search marketing industry you know that there is a bunker full of SEO gadgets, gizmos, and whatchamacallits to choose from.  Whether you’re searching for keywords, checking backlinks, or scoping out the competition, everybody seems to have the next big tool to make your website a success.  With that said, each SEO seems to have their own stash of favorite tools that help them in their SEO ventures. Last week  Milwaukee SEO Anthony Verre did a great…

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I had the chance to toy around with Wolfram Alpha today following its launch and I can say that this is definitely a different breed of search engine.  It’s not cutesy like Google, it’s not as “user friendly” if you will, and it’s surely not something the general public is going to run to.  It is however a tool that can be greatly useful, assuming you know how to find what you’re looking for. One of the main things I…

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The big news this week in the land of search and honey is the talk of the recent updates to Google and the SERP data searchers are provided.  First searchers will now be presented with longer snippets (the block of text beneath the page link on the SERP) when searching using three or more terms in a query; additionally Google is getting semantic on us and is now displaying even more related terms based on your search.  Some welcome this…

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My wife and I got in a bit of a tiff the other day, and strangely enough a blog post came of it. Not a blog post about the tiff itself, but from something we discussed. At the end of our discussion I got to thinking about some of the things she said and realized how much what she was saying about babies is similar to SEO clients. As babies we are unable to truly communicate what it is we…

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