http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog Ridding Arizona of Crappy Marketing One Rant at a Time Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:14:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the weekend approaches, here is a great way to get a little inspiration to last you through to next week. Spend 3 minutes watching the video available through this link. It will make your day and just may change the life of someone you share it with. http://www.212movie.com/ http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/07/11/some-inspiration-for-your-weekend/ Yesterday search giant Google announced that it has updated its Keyword Tool to include the approximate search volume by month as well as the approximate average search volume for all of its keywords. The Google keyword tool has always been one of the best tools around for selecting keywords to use ... http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/07/09/google-adds-search-volume-data-to-keyword-tool/ The BizGrowth office will be closed tomorrow for the Fourth of July. We’ll be back next Monday. We wish everyone a safe, fun July 4th weekend. -The BizGrowth Team http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/07/03/bizgrowth-celebrates-the-fourth-of-july/ Google has begun penalizing advertisers who have slow landing page load times by lowering their quality score in Google AdWords. Advertisers looking to improve their quality scores and lower their minimum bids using Google AdWords now face an additional obstacle to achieving quality score perfection. The Google Adwords team has announced that, ... http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/06/26/load-times-affect-quality-scores-in-google-adwords/ Handling a mere 9% of internet searches in the United States, Microsoft has a long way to go to catch up with Google’s 62% or even Yahoo’s 20% of the market. However, with a new program unveiled last month, Microsoft is hoping to narrow that gap. The Live Search cashback account ... http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/06/26/microsoft-live-search-pays-users-to-buy-online/ In their never ending quest to make online search both easier and more intuitive, Google has managed to come up with yet another way to make your search queries more relevant. Announced recently, Google has significantly improved their algorithms to process the newest information much faster then previously possible. What this ... http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/06/25/google-speeds-up-related-search-suggestions-for-fresher-results/ In 2005 BusinessWeek published a cover story titled “Blogs Will Change Your Business.” Blogs, according to the article, were to be the great equalizer that could give any employee a voice potentially more powerful then the entire public relations department. The authors further warned that your customers and competitors ... http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/06/25/businessweek-updates-classic-blogging-article-to-make-room-for-social-media/ The best way to maximize your marketing results is by testing various elements of your marketing to find out what works best. BizGrowth founder Brian Offenberger gives you an overview of how testing can help you boost profits while lowering costs. To be able to effectively analyze how to get the ... http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/05/28/use-online-testing-for-higher-profits/ I had the pleasure of conducting another webinar for SEMA yesterday. The title of the webinar was, "Ten Things You Can Do Today To Improve Your Website Results Tomorrow." Take a look at the presentation slides here. http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/05/23/10-things-you-can-do-today-to-improve-website-results-tomorrow/ Brian Offenberger, President of BizGrowth Search Engine Solutions will be speaking at the National Marketing Academy Workshop Wednesday, June 18 at the Sheraton Phoenix Airport Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. The workshop is from 7:30 am to 5:00pm, and Offenberger will be conducting the session ‘Paid Search and Local Markets’ from 2:45 ... http://www.bizgrowthseo.com/blog/2008/05/15/brian-offenberger-to-speak-at-national-marketing-academy-workshop/