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When Yahoo and Bing merge in August or September of thisyear, the Bing search engine will be powering 30% of all search results in theU.S., and companies that rely on either organic or paid search from Yahoo!should be prepared for the change.  Yahoo!has started its integration testing with Bing, and the actual transition toBing organic search results is set to take place in August and September, withthe PPC transition scheduled for October.

Since Universal search began last year, map listings always pop up on search pages when you specify local PA cities. In addition, now you may also see shopping results, image or video results, and social results. For this reason, staying abreast of changes in the major social sites becomes very important for SEO in PA.

One major social site that has really been adding users in the last few months is Twitter. According to Twitter’s COO, the site now receives190 million visitors per month, and 65 million Tweets each day.

.tel domains became generally available this week on Mar 24, 2009. I just got mine. I’m going to use it as a web based business card for our company, including everyone’s contact information. The .tel is supposed to be used as a phone book for the Internet where you can store e-mail addresses, links to Web sites, identities for online social networks, phone numbers and street addresses.

Since lots of studies are pointing to a continued year of social web technical developments, I wanted to share a really cool blog I found with data you can use to make decisions about adding social aspects to your websites and other marketing strategies. Check out their social profile tool. http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2008/10/new-2008-social.html Maybe a social network will even challenge Google soon. That is all speculation, but facts are that people are using the web socially and your company needs to take advantage of that fact.

You can think of yearly website maintenance like replacing the batteries in your smoke detectors. It isn’t very time consuming, and a few simple checks or changes can keep your site in the running for website traffic. The following checklist will help you:

• Verify company and contact information

If you're referring to Internet Explorer version 6, then yes! At PA Internet Marketing we will continue to support web site rendering on IE6. This support will last until it holds less than 10% of the browser market share. We no longer support earlier versions of Internet Explorer (prior to version 6), as is the case for nearly all web development companies.

This Holiday session is a time to share, enjoy and celebrate. This Christmas may be bright and cheerful for you and your family. The New Year is also a time to begin new activities, and start fresh for a better 2009. May this New Year 2009 begin on a prosperous note for you and your family! This is the time to be merry and wish for new things in the Christmas and New Year 2009. Our PA Internet Marketing Team also wants to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you Merry Christmas and the best in the New Year 2009.

I read a column on SearchEngineWatch.com today by Mark Jackson where he suggested an easy way to use social media sites to market your company. He sasy that the new social media sites offer many ways to drive visitors to your own website. They offer new marketing media that could really help you grow. Maybe you already have a LinkedIn profile or a Facebook account. Both these social media sites are very popular: Facebook has over 140 million active users and is growing by about 600,000 users a day, and LinkedIn has more than 30 million users.

Google the leader of search engine is also famous worldwide for his useful tools. Google Trends is one of the free tools from Google. With Google Trends you can find the search volume of a specific term across various regions of the world and how many times the search term searched on Google.com.

Following are some reasons to use Google trends:

When the ball drops at midnight, add one more thing to your list of New Year’s Resolutions:
Don’t go crazy this year….”Google” crazy, that is! In the online pay-per-click advertising world, it seems to be a common practice for businesses to “google” their own keywords to see where their ads show up. This practice, however, has a negative impact on a business’s advertising campaign. Below is a list of reasons explaining the effects of “googling” (or searching) for your own keywords?