All Things Not Google http://nongoogle.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:46:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/84509559c97ae6a9750636f3cdbc8493?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png All Things Not Google http://nongoogle.wordpress.com All Things Not Google http://nongoogle.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/all-things-not-google/ http://nongoogle.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/all-things-not-google/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:46:49 +0000 trentblizzard http://nongoogle.wordpress.com/?p=7 ]]>

This blog is meant to support the “All Things Not Google” presentation by Trent Blizzard of Blizzard Internet Marketing.

http://nongoogle.wordpress.com

Resources I used to prepare this presentation:

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U.S. Expanded Search Queries by Search Engine, December 2007
Expanded Search Entity November 2007 (M) December 2007 (M) Percent Change (%)
Total expanded search 13,907 13,523 -2.8
Google sites 7,326 7,165 -2.2
     Google 5,923 5,651 -4.6
     YouTube/all other 1,403 1,514 7.9
Yahoo sites 2,395 2,363 -1.3
     Yahoo 2,358 2,326 -1.4
     All other 37 37 0.0
Microsoft sites 984 963 -2.1
     MSN Windows Live 947 927 -2.1
     Microsoft/all other 37 36 -2.7
Time Warner network 838 784 -6.4
     AOL 445 434 -2.5
     MapQuest/all other 393 350 -10.9
eBay 489 508 3.9
Ask network 464 416 -10.3
     Ask.com 263 238 -9.5
     MyWebSearch.com/all other 201 178 -11.4
Fox Interactive Media 436 350 -19.7
     MySpace 427 342 -19.9
     All other 9 8 -11.1
Craigslist.org 207 220 6.3
Amazon sites 178 215 20.8
Facebook 119 102 -14.3
Source: comScore, 2008
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AskCity offers widgets, layers, and other cool mapping features. The business search includes business info and ratings pulled from third party sources. You can create your own maps to embed in your website.

Yahoo Maps combines data from local.yahoo.com into maps. You can edit your own local listing!

Microsoft’s Live Maps combines reviews from a variety of places and let you add your own searchable collections that others can see to. Just like Yahoo you can edit your own business listing. sample link

Mapquest is an old standby and receives a lot of traffic. It pulls data from third party sources.

CommunityWalk is our favorite mapping package to enhance your website with. It is easy to build your own area maps, control the content your self, and embed it into your website.

CommunityWalk Map – Glenwood Springs, Colorado

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Make your own website searchable by embedding a search tool right into your website.
Freefind offers a free version and an ad-free customizable version. Both will limit search results to your website.

  • Create a search engine that follows your own “algorithm.”
  • Style the search results
  • Combine multiple websites into one convenient search
  • Great stats on what people are searching for on your website
Yahoo! Search Builder is a tool that lets you embed a customizable Yahoo!-based search engine on your own web site. Yahoo! Search Builder lets you:

  • Search the web, your site, and add news search
  • Style the search box to match your site
  • Customize the search experience to match your users’ needs.


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Blog and News Search are growing in popularity.
Businesses can easily get presence in Blog and News search using two techniques:
  1. Use a Blog within their website to add content to their site (specials, attractions, news, events, etc)
  2. Publish press releases and news to PR websites like
    Popular Blog and News search portals include
    Resources:
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    Yahoo Site Explorer: Use this tool for competitive research. My favorite tool to explore and find websites that might provide a good link and to explore a competitor’s website
    Compete, Alexa and Quantcast: Provide somewhat relevant stats on traffic to your site and to your competitors. Alexa is a good place to do some competitive research.
    Domaintools researches domain names and hosting environments. I like their SEO Text Browser, Domain History and Reverse IP tools. A good place to get ideas for purchasing domain names too.
    Trellian, SEO Book and WordTracker offer free and useful keyword research tools.
    Resources:
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    Twitter is a tool that you can waste a lot of time in and communicate with your friends.

    Also Copyscape is worth investigating.

    Image Search can be found at Pictures.ask.com and Flickr

    Open Directory Project is also known and dmoz.org. Getting in can be a challenge.

    Wikia is a wiki search engine… you can customize searches.
    Mahalo is a human built search engine getting a lot of attention.
    Other social Internet sites you can represent your business on include Aboutus and WikiCompany, LinkedIn, Facebook and Ziggs
    Local and business Guides like Insider Pages, City Search, Merchant Circle, Craigslist and Yahoo Travel
    Accommodation specific search engines you can submit to include Accommodation Search Engine and Hospitality Crawler.
    Hotspot Finders like wi-fihotspotlist.com, jiwire, wififreespot , hotspotr and wifi411.com

    Upcoming is a local Calendar of Events operated by Yahoo

    Upload videos to places like Vimeo, Revver or Spike.

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