Thank You for Another Wonderful YearThank you for another wonderful year.
We are grateful to have you as a customer. The growth we’ve experienced over the years is because of customers like you, who faithfully support our business. We appreciate your trust, and we’ll do our best to continue to give you the kind of service you deserve. Thanks again for your business.
We wish you happy holidays and
Prosperity in the New Year.
5 Ways to Optimize Your Site for Bing
Most people that have used the service, have noticed that Bing results are often different then Google’s. At envoca, we provide SEO services that include optimizing for both search engines. The following are 5 things we do to optimize sites for bing on a fairly regular basis.
The first problem that webmasters usually have with new sites is getting them indexed in the first place. When you submit a site to Bing it can often be slow to index it at first. Often, only part of the site will be in Bing’s index at first. This can be terribly detrimental to a site’s success if a critical launch date is a priority. Luckily, Bing’s webmaster center has an area where users can submit their own XML sitemap (more info here). This allows Bing to crawl a website more quickly and thoroughly.
For example, MTCutters, who sells High Speed Steel Tool Bits, came up #1 for their targeted phrease ”Line Bore Measuring Tools” in Google the day after launch but not in the first page for Bing. With Bing Webmaster Center we were able to upload a sitemap and see it indexed the next day.
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The Envoca October 2009 Event ScheduleOctober is a busy month for for us at Envoca. We have been pretty excited about the official public launch of Google Wave and have been having fun with our new accounts. Aside from having plans to launch a half dozen websites and eat a lot of turkey this month, we will also be attending several regional tech events alongside other Portland web design firms. These events are always helpful for keeping us ahead of the curve on the latest trends and tools that people are using in the web marketing sphere.
Drupal Camp PDX 2009 is being held October 9-11 at NedSpace Old Town, right above Backspace at NW 5th & Davis in Old Town Portland. The Conference planners state that, “DrupalCamp PDX is a unconference…developed entirely by the camp participants – you and your fellow Drupalers.”
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Legal Internet Marketing Campaigns in Under 24 Hours
At Envoca one of the things that specialize in is building websites that generate leads for our clients. It is one thing to design a good-looking business website for a client but it is quite another to build a website that brings business to a client. One of the other things that we specialize in is legal internet marketing. When we work on projects that are a combination of the two you can find examples of some of our best work.
On the morning of May 1, 2009 the FDA announced that the popular diet drug Hydroxycut was to be recalled due to severe cases of liver damage and the risk of death. Several of our clients are law firms who handle pharmaceutical injury lawsuits and wanted to be able to take the cases of people injured by this drug as soon as possible. We have found that these days, when people need a lawyer, they look on the internet to find one. Therefore, it was important to us to make sure that people searching online for a Hydroxycut lawyer found our clients on Google as soon as possible.
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SEO Tools, Search Bash and the 3 Wolf Moon T-Shirt
The second official day of Search Engine Strategies (SES) is now underway and some interesting things have happened so far. Yesterday we had the privilege of hearing Clay Shirky speak on Social Media and its effects on world affairs. Clay touched on the effects of social media’s consumer impact and even sported the now infamous “3 wolf moon t-shirt.”
The trade show was open so I got a few minutes to chat with the folks working on Bing’s up-and-coming mobile search platform as well as WYS from Google who is known online as “that guy who does the Google webmaster videos with Matt Cutts.” In the afternoon I got to sit in on a panel that included 3 of the top 5 people involved in SEO in the world namely Bruce Clay, Michael Gray, and Aaron Wall. Then in the evening, WebmasterRadio.fm put on their Search Bash after party where the industry’s movers and shakers were able to well…move and shake together.
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The Lynch Blog and Everybody ElseThe SES convention started off with a keynote by Clay Shirky who reminded me a lot of Fromone Pidontknow. No doubt he gets that a lot. He talked about how communication habits are changing due to the technology available. The speech was interesting because
1. He seemed to be very passionate about his subject matter
2. He was well prepared and seemed to know the message without cues
3. I was drinking a caramel macchiato
4. I am interested in the subject
You can listen to it online. The material is covered in his book, here comes everybody. The two bits of his talk that I found most interesting were
1. The web facilitates Lynch Blogs and other forms of organization without organizations
2. The way we communicate has changed – but the motivation to do so has always been there
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