Google Gets Flashy

While conventional wisdom has been to avoid using Flash to build a website, Google has upended the search world yet again by announcing today that they have improved search indexing of Flash files. What does this mean? It doesn’t mean go out and build your entire site in Flash. Just… don’t. But if you DO…

Introducing SEO Video: Episode 1

Ready to ‘see’ what we’ve been working on lately? We are excited to introduce a new series of video blogs to the SEO Vision blog. Each month we will aim to bring you something funny, something informational and everything related to search engine optimization, internet marketing and social media via a 2-3 minute video blog…

Is Your Website Patiently Awaiting Customers?

I couldn’t miss this sign on a local hotel chain (name obscured to protect the innocent) – “WELCOME: WE PATIENTLY AWAIT YOUR ARRIVAL.” While I can kind of see what the manager responsible for this message was going for, all it did for me was conjure an image of dozens of happy, smiling employees sitting…

H&R Block Embraces Social Media, Uncle Sam’s Everywhere Cringe

Earlier this year, around tax season, you may have noticed an influx of half shaven, chronically unemployed fellows dressed up as Uncle Sam or George Bush holding signs outside a certain tax preparation company. I’d link to them here..but obviously, they aren’t really interested in web promotion if they are paying some guy to harass…