Archive for the 'Internet Marketing' Category

How to Get Images on Google Earth and Google Maps

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Panoramio is a website that enables digital photographers to geolocate, store and organize their photographs and to view those photographs in Google Earth and Google Maps. This is great for building brand awareness for retail stores and other location based services.

Images can them be viewed online by your customers or prospects. In additon mobile and wireless devices can access the maps and images via Goolge Maps and Google Earth.

We can assisit you with building this into your website or intranet.

Google US Marketshare is over 67% of all Internet Searches

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Google Internet Search increased its market share of searches in the United States in May, from 67.9 percent share in April to 68.29 percent in May, Hitwise reported.

During May 2008, Yahoo dropped from 20.28 percent to 19.95 percent of the serches and Microsoft dropped from 6.26 percent to 5.89 percent of the searches. Fourth-place Ask.com increased slightly from 4.17 percent to 4.23 percent, Hitwise said. In the U.K., Google had 87 percent search share to Yahoo’s 4.09 percent, Microsoft’s 3.72 percent, and Ask.com’s 3.07 percent.

Google Offers Hosted Custom Website Search for Business

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

With Google Custom Search Business Edition, website owners can put a Google search box on your website - and let visitors access search results from any website or websites that you choose. Google price : $100 per year for up to 5,000 web pages and $500 per year up to 50,000 web pages or documents. This is good for companies who do not want to purchase a Google Mini or Google Search Appliance.

This is great for small compaines or for companies with websites that are not updated often.

  • Increase conversion rates by helping visitors find the products they want, and guiding them to the products you want to sell.
  • Improve usability and reduce support inquiries by allowing users to help themselves.

No hardware or software installations are required to use Custom Search Business Edition. To add a search engine to your website, complete the short setup wizard and then copy and paste a snippet of code into your site. Once your search engine is added to your website it can be modified with a search engine’s control panel. Google also offers reporting.