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To bing, or not to bing? That is the question of the day.

June 5, 2009 – 1:39 am

I’d just saw one of Microsoft’s commercial for bing.com, and it’s as confusing as the search results on bing.com. If you want to be overwhelmed with information, I highly recommend that you start making bing.com your default homepage on your browser.

I did a search for one of my favorite keywords “diet pills”, and bing.com displayed an array of information. The search results are brief, and right to the point. And if you scroll on the right hand side of each listing, you can see the long description, and other webpages from your website that bing.com thinks will benefit the users.

From an SEO perspective, I think it’s awesome because bing.com is dispaying up to 5 additional links to your website. This feature could bring extra traffic to webpages that would normally get any traffic from the search engines.

I’m not sure what criteria bing.com is using to decide which webpages should appeared in the more information box. When I find out, I’ll be sure to let you know.

In the meantime, check out bing.com and see where your website is ranked.

superpages.com $50 coupon

May 28, 2009 – 1:23 am

Superpages.com is giving away a $50 coupon on it’s pay per click advertising programs. Enter this promo code OSCPPC50X on the Order Summary page during your next visit to receive $50 in free clicks.

Is your business listed in local yellowpage directories?

April 30, 2009 – 5:10 pm

Sometimes, it’s not enough just to optimize for the major search engines. You also need to get listed in the local directories too. In fact, you need to do this if you have a local business that thrives on telephone calls from local customers. For example, if you operate a plumbing business, you need to have your plumbing business listed on as many local directories as possible. Doing so will ensure that you’ll get a constant flow of new and repeat business locally. And when I say local directories, I’m referring to popular destination like Google Local, Yahoo Local, and MSN Live.

Get listed here:

http://maps.google.com
http://local.yahoo.com
http://maps.live.com

Get listed today, and don’t delay. You could be losing customers to your competition. In fact, if you get listed in these local directories, you could potentially reduce your PPC advertising if you’re spending any money with Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing. And in these disparate times, who doesn’t want to save money, right? :-)

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