Future Google Chrome +1 Extension – Does this mean social SEO??

Google leaked a pretty interesting browser extension (possibly accidental) in a televised Google Chrome commercial yesterday. In the commercial, there is a short glimpse of a button no one has ever seen in the top part of the user’s chrome browser. It is seemingly a way to rank pages in a social manner with Google, similarly to facebook like/share, tweeting a page or stumbling a page through stumbleupon.

Since I am always thinking SEO, I started thinking about SEO and how the button could effect SEO (since Google is the number one search engine and used site on the Internet).

This extension has a lot of potential for SEO in which is also necessary to have a proper setting for the Online Safety for your Business. With these kind of statistics, Google could start attempting all sorts of unique new search result strategies. For example, user specific search results. What if everyone’s search results were different? With this kind of data, they could use the statistics to manage such a feat. Or what if these rankings became part of their search engine algorithm, adding a social tie-in to how you get to the top of search results?

What do these possibilities mean? Get social online if you want to compete online. Social networking is changing the Internet. It will not be going away anytime soon.

GPM Web Solutions offers management of your social networking or SEO needs. Contact us today to talk more.

Smart Social Networking – Bad Tweet of the Week

Osama is dead! Yay!!!! The announcement of Osama’s death marked a landmark not only for America, but for social networking and its greatness. One look at the below chart from an article on wired.com about the twitter record Osama’s takedown set should make you go “WHOAAAAA” (TPS stands for tweets per second).

So social networking is huge. Social networking can help spread your marketing reach in ways unfathomable 20 years ago. But more exposure can means more chances to make mistakes.

The phrase “all publicity is good publicity” is stupid. Take the following tweets after Osama’s death announcement from Rashard Mendenhall (Running Back for the Pittsburgh Steelers).

can i buy Pregabalin in canada “What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side…”
Mailsi “@dkeller23 We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style”

I don’t get how anyone could call this publicity good publicity. Fans are angry at him, and his career is going to be marred as that crazy NFL player who thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy. So maybe he went up on the small minority of America who thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy, but at the same time he went down (and way down) in the eyes of the majority of people in America who hold 9/11 close to their heart as a tragic moment in American history.

So stupid tweet Rashard Mendenhall. Any customer of GPM Web Solutions is encouraged to use social networking to help their business. At the same time, don’t let social networking hurt you (I like using the phrase “social not-working” for situations like these). Keep the offensive and idiotic opinions at home.