Approaching the 4th Annual Fun Run in Carol Stream IL. Hard to believe it’s been 3 years since we lost Jonathan. Some days I just don’t go there, and others…like it just happened. I feel compelled to share these links: My brother’s non-profit, PATT. A Squidoo lens about Jon. A vote there for the lens [...]
Green Initiatives and sustainability issues are things you read about every day. As a business owner, how does this affect you? What is expected of you?
ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The folks who OK URL extensions: .com, .uk, .mobi, etc. INCANN announced a big change in policy at their June meeting in Paris. Within the next several months extensions will be like vanity plates; any extension that is at least 3 letters will be allowed. [...]
Virtually unheard of a few short years ago, now blended, or universal, search results are now returning images as well; Google estimates are around 15% and growing
The winner is 2, at over 30%. Next are 3, at over 25%. 1-word keywords barely edge out a 4-word query at around 15%. 5 words rank at about 6+%, and the numbers drop significantly after this. People are using 2 to 3 word phrases over half the time in their online searches. And a [...]