Recent content by BarbDuton7

Google getting ride of custom polygons for campaign location targeting. Yes, targets are migrated, but what other strategies are out there for targeting marketing?

Who is looking at Google correlate and trying out the thematic links? I am thinking there might be some good data to mine here if you are crafty.

How much of an impact is this going to have down the road on SEO? I think they are targeting the lazy consumer, but I can't imagine preferring this over actually typing in my search (unless I was in the car). Too rife for mistakes

Has anyone out there bit the bullet and actually coughed up $185,000 for the ICANN domain extension? Not sure how much help that is going to be in search results, and it is a hefty price to pay simply to experiment, but who knows?

Wondering what the buzz is regarding Google Toolbar page rank and their incessant updates. They have continually downplayed the value of page rank, but not sure how accurate that is?

I am sure everyone remembers the big stir last year when Google gave everyone a deadline to remove PO box addresses for place page. I am still encountering some, and wonder if it was just a veiled threat or if some place pages have simply fallen through the cracks.

Is there some consensus regarding how many people are actually using Google Chrome? I am wondering how skewed my research is for search terms (because of instant pages). Hard to remember to log out all of the time.

I am a bit leary about this tool, not sure I want to cough up all of my info to Google. That being said, are there any advantages you can see for SEO?

How many of you are using author markups for original content? Not sure this will be that helpful for SEO, maybe if you were truly generating unique content for a long piece in the Washington Post or USA Today, but how about websites for local businesses?

I'm not sold on the new +1 button as of yet. It allows signed in users to recommend sites to their friends, and it is also showing up in search results. Is this the latest gambit to fend off Facebook?

How will Google serps incorporate the new local city page results? I think everyone will start to cry foul if they push their own pages in terms of ranking?

Google recently launched City Pages, a new service for the larger cities in the United States.  What are my fellow SEOs thoughts about this?  Seems like the results may start to push back some other sites from the top of the fold.