
This weekend, I headed down to UWO to watch my daughter play flag football for Huron University College. After they won the morning game, the coach told the team that he would Facebook them as soon as he learned the time of their next payoff game...

I was just thinking about how linking up used to mean getting together with your friends for drinks or coffee. Or sometimes it meant phoning around to see if your buddies could go to a party. These days linking up is a reference that is about online life...

Twilight is not my cup of tea, but you have to admire the internet marketing behind it. Pretty much anyone, male or female, young or old, would have to be in a media-less bubble to miss the release of New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight series...

On Sunday, Macworld reported that Microsoft has discussed “de-indexing” its news website from Google. In effect, News Corp content would cease to appear in Google’s search engine results. Now this is hard ball at the big league level. If t...

Last week I had lunch with a friend at Celadon House in Oakville. When the owner came by with the bill, he gave me a coupon for 250 CIBC airmiles that I could acquire by returning to the restaurant within the next 45 days. Awesome...

Social media transparency is critical if you are going to attempt a social media campaign. It is too easy to be found out and there are those individuals sitting at home with nothing better to do than take a shot at you...

If you are a National company and you have logged into your Google Analytics account lately, you’ve noticed that there is a steady increase in visitors coming to your site using a local search modifier with a keyword term. ...

Sean Michael Kerner of internetnews.com covers the breaking “news of the approval of the new International Domain Names Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ...

According to Hitwise, Facebook almost triples its market share of social networking sites with a 194% increase year over year since September 2008 while MySpace dropped 55%...

The old adage, “Half of all my advertising is wasted. I just don’t know which half!”, shouldn’t be included in your corporate brochure this year. There are plenty of tools out there to track email, SEO and PPC and even social media. But si...

Along with the announcement that confirmed Google’s deal with Twitter, Google’s Marissa Mayer spoke last week of an addition coming to Google Labs that contains; “(…) a new feature that allows you to see results for queries from people in your social network. This w...

The YP™ killer has arrived in Beta and its called a Google Local Listing Ad. Google has been trying for some time now to remedy the many issues plaguing Adwords when it comes to small businesses. The learning curve and considerable time involved has driven many SME’s out of the PPC market. No...

Google announced yesterday that they have reached an agreement with Twitter to include Twitter updates in their search results...

Whether we are speaking at the Toronto Board of Trade or at a local SEO meetup in Oakville, the first piece of advice we give attendees is to grab their Google local listing at the Google Local Business Center...









