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Have you taken your place in Google’s search results?

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No, this isn’t an advertisement for Little Guy Creation’s SEO work. This is about how you, personally, can help influence your website’s search rankings.

That’s right. If you have a Google+ account, you can contribute to your own success.

Google+ is Google’s social media service. And it’s more and more tied into the search results – much moreso than Facebook or Twitter (though these are still places you want your business to be found.)

Now, the article linked above is TWO MONTHS old as of this writing. Imagine if you had already been promoting your business with Google+ while your competitors don’t even realize how far they are falling behind you.

If this is the exciting news to you that it should be, then go to Google+ and get started.

Search Engine Claims

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Google updates the way they do things fairly often, with major updates several times a year and 500 or so minor updates. Their latest major update was in February and codenamed Panda. In this case, Panda has been rolled out globally and then updated again. Typically, these stronger updates get a lot of discussion going and can completely change the way that users interact with the web.

Yahoo added search direct in order to provide you the hottest trends and information without having to click the search button. It was supposed to make things faster for you but the response has been underwhelming. It has been perceived as an expected feature, not the vital improvement that Yahoo was touting.

Here’s an analysis between Search Direct and Google’s Instant programs, if you’d like to see how they work.

But this may be ancient history since you may not even have to type for much longer. Get ready to talk to your computer.

Where is all this going? Online search is always expanding, growing and evolving.