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Alex McArthur.com

May 10th, 2007 at 9:22 am

OrangeSoda open house

Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 1 p.m. OrangeSoda is having an official ribbon cutting ceremony for the office with the Orem City Mayor and other government officials and local business leaders. Following the ribbon cutting is an open-house for clients and colleagues from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Please invite your families to come between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. for pizza, dessert, and lots of orange soda!

Check out DigitalIQ magazine to learn a little more about what we’re doing.

April 11th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

2006 Search Engine Market Shares

Google 49.93%
Yahoo! Web Sites 12.21%
Google U.K. 9.50%
MSN 6.89%
Google AdSense for Content 3.31%
Google Canada 3.28%
AOL 1.47%
Ask 1.17%
Google Germany 1.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites U.K. 0.95%
MSN U.K. 0.91%
AOL U.K. 0.71%
Google Italy 0.62%
Google India 0.60%
Dogpile 0.57%
Google France 0.52%
Google Spain 0.49%
Google Netherlands 0.39%
Google Sweden 0.33%
Google Venezuela 0.32%
Google Ireland 0.29%
Google New Zealand 0.25%
AltaVista 0.24%
Google Belgium 0.23%
MSN Australia 0.21%
Froogle 0.20%
Google Poland 0.20%
Yahoo! Web Sites Canada 0.19%
Google South Africa 0.17%
Google Japan 0.15%
Microsoft Live Search 0.15%
Search.com 0.14%
Google Switzerland 0.13%
Yahoo! Categories 0.13%
Excite 0.12%
ThomasNet 0.11%
Yahoo! Web Sites Australia 0.10%
Google Austria 0.10%
Google Finland 0.09%
Overture 0.09%
Google Norway 0.09%
Google Israel 0.08%
Netscape 0.07%
Google Portugal 0.06%
Google Romania 0.06%
Yahoo! Web Sites Mexico 0.06%
MetaCrawler 0.06%
Yahoo! Web Sites Singapore 0.05%
Mamma 0.05%
Yahoo! Web Sites France 0.04%
Open Directory Categories (dmoz.org) 0.04%
Lycos 0.04%
MSN Spain 0.04%
All the Web 0.04%
Google Indonesia 0.04%
MSN Sweden 0.03%
Google Russia 0.03%
MSN New Zealand 0.03%
HotBot 0.03%
Ask U.K. 0.02%
TOnline (Germany) 0.02%
Google Bulgaria 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Italy 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Germany 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Spain 0.02%
Google Lithuania 0.02%
Go Network (Infoseek) 0.02%
Viola (France) 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Argentina 0.02%
MSN France 0.02%
MSN South Africa 0.02%
Yahoo! Web Sites Spanish 0.02%
AltaVista U.K. 0.02%
MSN Germany 0.01%
AltaVista Sweden 0.01%
Google Kenya 0.01%
AOL Canada 0.01%
Looksmart 0.01%
MSN Netherlands 0.01%
MSN Norway 0.01%
Goo (Japan) 0.01%
AOL France 0.01%
MSN Singapore 0.01%
MSN Denmark 0.01%
MSN Brazil 0.01%
Yahoo! Web Sites Brazil 0.01%
Yahoo! Web Sites India 0.01%
Yahoo! Categories U.K. 0.01%
Yahoo! Web Sites Japan 0.01%
FreeNet (Germany) 0.01%
MSN Belgium / Dutch 0.01%
Yahoo! Categories Canada 0.01%
Excite U.K. 0.01%
Yandex (Russia) 0.01%
AltaVista Italy 0.01%
Google China 0.01%

March 14th, 2007 at 10:01 am

SEO Specialist/Guru Opening

The person in this position will be responsible for implementing and managing Organic Search campaigns. This person will be responsible for researching keywords that are appropriate to the market, determining the best optimization techniques, and incorporating these techniques into the clients’ websites.
Will work closely with clients to achieve desired results. The SEO Guru will be responsible for providing ongoing management of all subscribers including reporting to the client on results of their campaign, SEO recommendations and delivery of assigned program deliverables.

Required skills:
Ability to work independently, to organize and prioritize multiple project responsibilities, and to produce quality work under deadline pressure.
Knowledge and demonstrated application of industry standards.
Experience and understanding of link building.
Strong understanding of website development techniques, SEO tools and site analytics principles.
Able to remain up-to-date with competition and industry trends through trade publications, blogs, etc to assess the potential impact of industry events on the clients’ websites.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Orange Soda was founded by a group of Pay Per Click industry pioneers in the late 90’s. We have managed tens of thousands of campaigns of all sizes, and in all industries. This is a full-time position in Orem, Utah.

Please contact me if you are interested.

March 2nd, 2007 at 1:16 am

Google Bookmarks in Personalized Serps

I noticed “search history” placed in the serps today. This may have been around for a week or months, however, I haven’t come across any news on the subject. Long story…but, I login to my google account on one machine while performing searches on another so I don’t notice many changes to personalized search.

Take a look at this image.

Google bookmarks in serps

The HTML tips (mouseover text) show the link from “companies-of-interest” directing to http://www.google.com/searchhistory/lookup?q=label:%22companies-of-intereset%22. Interestingly enough, “companies-of-interest” is one of my bookmarks. Hmmm … those search junkies out there will probably catch on to the relevance.

February 26th, 2007 at 6:48 pm

Ban That!

Yeah, my widgets are getting out of control, but most of my readers use RSS apps anyway. Aren’t crazy amounts of plugins half the fun of blogging?

My latest site “enhancement” is my Ban That widget you can see on the top of my sidebar. It’s a fun site to tell the world about things you hate and why.

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