Thriving in a Post-Penguin World

In the aftermath of the “Penguin” update released by Google earlier this year, some companies and their SEO agencies have struggled to recover from a drop in search rankings. But here at Gravitate Online, we have not only survived Penguin, we have actually seen our clients’ rankings rise as a result of the changes. Gravitate […]

Google Improving Aesthetically?! Sign of the Apocalypse?

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Last week Google started rolling out their new navigation toolbar on the main search page, Gmail and others. Not known for making anything visually appealing, this is a significant step for them. Filled with geeks and engineers, Google is notorious for making everything plain, simple and functional. They bet on advanced mathematics and numbers, not […]

Instant on Google Product Search

Like Google’s Instant Search feature on their core searches, they have now included the same functionality in Product Searches. Making for a more dynamic and fresh product search. Especially helpful due to Google Products more visual nature, as it’s easy to see if the product images are getting closer to what your looking for as […]

Russian Roulette and JC Penny

JC Penny tries to game the Google system, gets caught and action is take against them. Just as we’d expect their ranking quickly plummet. It is never in the long term interest for a website to participate in buying links from irrelevant sources, as it does more harm than good to a site’s equity and […]

Twitter Updates-2010-01-19

SERP personalization study shows no upheavals, with minor differences only…but study is early http://bit.ly/7nnk4w #

Twitter Updates-2009-12-22

SEOmoz | 8 Predictions for SEO in 2010: http://bit.ly/6R3mHC via @addthis I especially like #3 on personalization #

International SEO and Accents

As high speed internet continues to penetrate other countries, many U.S. companies are now focusing their efforts on this world wide market. Google’s India site is now the twelfth most popular site in the world, and Baidu.com, a search engine in China, is even better at number nine. Companies can see huge sale increases from […]

Cloud Computing- Basics

Some of our clients recently have asked us to explain Cloud Computing as a concept. I found this decent video from Ken Colbourn, who gives the basics and some examples. He also explains some pros and cons. Giving up some privacy, and placing your data in the hands of some company that you may or […]

Twitter Updates-2009-09-22

Adobe buying Omniture, wow! http://bit.ly/2oGrC # TWiG has great discussion about Chris Anderson's FREE: http://twit.tv/twig7 # Facebook cashflow positive! Whoa! http://bit.ly/3Ti59s #

Google Also Getting Visual

A few days ago we posted about Bing going visual with their visual search, well Google is getting into the game as well. CNN posts a nice video that gives you a sample.Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a><br /><br /> I like the direction this leads. The more visual search becomes, even more people […]