Growth

Domain Name considerations when going international

by Jiyan • March 31, 2011

For businesses whose success is strongly tied to an online strategy, there are a variety of factors to consider when thinking about your domain and brand as part of global expansion.  This article will outline some of the major considerations and help provide a loose framework that can be used to design and evaluate your […]


What small businesses should know about local search

by Jiyan • July 14, 2010

When Google decided to start showing local business results on Page 1, it basically meant that A. small businesses who were already thinking about marketing through organic search needed to start thinking more carefully about the impact of local results and B. that small businesses who weren’t using search as a marketing tactic had better […]


News in blended search

by Jiyan • March 29, 2010

For those of you interested in how news appears in blended search results, I’ve put some thoughts together in a guest post for Lee Odden on the Online Marketing Blog.


Getting indexed in Google News

by Jiyan • December 30, 2009

I chatted with CT Moore from NVI Interactive Strategy at Pubcon a few months back about several topics including some of the things we’ve seen from Google News in the past year or so. Note to self: Remember to take off that ridiculously large event badge next time.


SEO Value of a Press Release

by Jiyan • October 1, 2009

Several weeks ago, Mihaela Lica from Everything PR presented a critical perspective on a news release we had issued in which she raised some good questions about the goals and target on a news release.  Her posting prompted me to give her a call and there were two outcomes from that discussion.  First, the discussion […]