Twitter Karma
Twitter Karma is a free service that you can use to determine who, out of all of the people you’re following on Twitter, are also following you back.  If they’re not, it offers an easy way to unfollow those folks in bulk. Transcript If you have a Twitter account, this quick video will show you an easy way to find out how many of those friends you’re following on Twitter are actually following you back. It’s a free website called Twitter Karma and you can visit this site by heading to http://www.dossy.org/twitter/karma. Once you’re there, enter in your Twitter username and password and then click the large “Whack!

Google Product Listing Ads
This past Wednesday Google announced Product Listing Ads.  And rather tell you what they are, let me show you. This first image is your typical search results page with the ads and organic listings highlighted.  This search was for “snow boots”.

Google Local Business – 9 Steps to Adding Your Google Local Listing
What follows are 9 easy steps to getting your local business into Google. First, visit http://www.Google.com/local/add and sign in with your Google account. If you don’t already have one, you can get one for free. Click the button to add a new business listing. Fill in the required information. Your business name. Your business name should be your legal business name for your company. Your telephone number. Your main telephone number should be your direct phone number. Not an 800 number. You can add additional phone numbers using this link (the add more phone

New Google Webmaster Chat Posted!
On Friday November 13, (odd date isn’t it?) Google will host another Webmaster chat. They don’t do these very often so I highly suggest that you listen in.  I’ll be there. This webmaster chat will focus on the Holidays – appropriately titled “Holiday Webmaster Webinar”. Visit http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/11/get-your-site-ready-for-holidays.html to get more information. No related posts.

The Google Popularity Contest Patent
On October 27, 2009, Google was granted a new patent that will adjust where your website sits in the search engines. If you’re interested in the headache-producing patent-speak you can view it here. Now, it’s my job to help you understand this patent so here I will do my absolute best to de-construct this new patent and help you understand it in plain English. In a nutshell, this new patent allows Google to take multiple query paths and asso