Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Search Marketing Firm Netvantage Marketing Sets Up Shop in Downtown East Lansing

East Lansing-based Netvantage moves to new space to accommodate growing business. East Lansing, MI - September 1st, 2011 - Michigan search marketing firm Netvantage Marketing moves into a newly developed space above The State News on Grand River Avenue in Downtown East Lansing on September 1st, 2011. The space will provide a modern and tech-friendly [...]

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(BLEEP)-y SEO: The (BLEEP)-y Link Request

I wanted to call this blog something else... !@$# @#%&#! Okay, I've wanted to  start a series of blogs on this forever, and someone just gave me a reason to start.  So this came into our sales email today: Dear webmaster, I am seeking out possible link partners that our visitors would be interesting in [...]

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Dear Google, I Miss The Old You...A (Potentially) Tragic End

(Note: This is a tongue in cheek take on the recent flurry of changes to Google). Things just aren't the same...   Dear Google, First off, I'm writing this as a loyal user, not as an SEO. I know we've had our ups and downs in the past (like you refusing to index a site [...]

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Google+: The Ews, The Awesome, And The Things You Won't Find On Facebook

First things first, I suppose I need to admit to being skeptical of Google’s social media endeavors. In fact, my Facebook statuses subtly bashed the search giant for attempting to reach out into all corners of the Internet. Weddings (googles.com/weddings/) and Widgets (www.wdyl.com) and what-the-heck-is-that? Oh my! I requested a branded energy drink from Google [...]

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Google Search Results Description - Explaining The Rankings

Remember when you could just type in what you wanted on Google and your results were merely a combination of Adwords ads and ten links with a couple lines of description?  You know, when Google looked like this: Remember those days?  Everything was made of words and you knew that Google was just doing its [...]

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Getting Started in Google AdWords (Part 2)

As promised on my previous blog post, I will now bring you tips 6-10 for starting an AdWords campaign. 6.   Campaign Geography Very few of the campaigns we run at Netvantage are national in their entirety.  Most of them are broken up into several key geographical areas.  Using geo-targeting in your campaign can be [...]

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Netvantage Marketing Raises Money for Pancreatic Research During Three Year Anniversary Event

East Lansing-based Netvantage Marketing marketing celebrates 3 years by giving back. June 7th, 2011 - EAST LANSING, MI - Netvantage Marketing celebrated three years of business on Thursday, May 12 with the inaugural 2011 Netvantage Open at Hawk Hollow. Proceeds from the event went toward The Hero Foundation to help fund pancreatic cancer research. The [...]

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Wordle of the Insomniac

This blog will soon be rolled into the main Netvantage blog, so being nostalgic our own Jerod Karam decided to send me a Wordle of my contents and I couldn't help but toss it up here.  *Sniffle*, here's what I talk about...all jumbled in one big beautiful Wordle mess.  

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A quick train tour of Google's personalized results

All aboard for a quick train trip into Google's personalized results.  Choo Choo! This past week Mallory (heretofore referred to as "Last Week's Employee of the Week" or LWEotW) asked the question, "How many businesses out there probably don't know about personalized results and think their rankings are way different than what they actually are?" [...]

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A Special Thank You to our Netvantage Open Sponsors

We’ve been together for 3 years now, and are teaming up with some great sponsors to celebrate the occasion by giving back. We are hosting the 2011 Netvantage Open this Thursday, May 12 at Hawk Hollow, a natural grass-putting course. All proceeds will go toward The Hero Foundation to help fund pancreatic cancer research. We [...]

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