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Service Highlight: Web Design

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

NetSearch Direct offers website design services including creating, designing and setting up your website and setting up a blog if your business would like one. We have a skilled website designer and web development team. We offer a couple of different website design packages to fit varying budgets and needs. NetSearch Direct would be glad to partner with you to create or update your online presence.

The web and online media including mobile is here to stay and the more presence you have online now the better chance you’ll have at gaining more leads and more return on your investment. To learn more about the website design packages we offer please contact one of our sales representatives by calling us at (804)228-4400 and speaking with someone today!

Social Media Day: June 30th!

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Social Media Day is coming up on Thursday June 30th this year! Social Media Day is a global event that is a celebration of the technological advancements that enable everyone to connect with real time information and communicate from miles apart. You can connect with other fellow social media and technology enthusiasts by hosting or attending a Social Media Day Meetup in your area.

The local Richmond, VA Social Media Day Meetup will be held at the Capital Ale House at 623 E Main Street in Richmond starting at 6 PM on June 30th. You can also use the hashtag #smday and #smdayrichmond on Twitter to tweet about Social Media Day 2011. Also, don’t forget to post your pictures and videos on YouTube, Facebook and Flickr on Social Media Day, after all it’s about sharing isn’t it?

Google Offers Search Via Voice, Text or Image

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

Google is now inspired to provide new ways to remove barriers to knowledge on the desktop and help you get to your results faster. On a mobile phone, you’re not limited to typing – you can search using your voice or a picture. Now you can do the same on your computer with Voice Search and Search by Image on your desktop or laptop. You can also get your results faster with Google Instant on Images and Instant Pages. With Voice Search now available on desktop, searching by voice is becoming more ubiquitous and the idea of being able to speak your search will be more familiar, no matter what you’re searching for.

To search using an image, go to images.google.com and just put your picture in the search box. Also, you can click the camera icon in the search box and upload a photo from your computer or paste the URL of an image from the web. You can also drag and drop pictures from web pages or your computer into the search box. To search images on the web even faster with just one click, you can download the Chrome or Firefox extensions.

According to Google, whether you’re typing, speaking, or using an image, entering your search is only part of the process. You’re not really done searching until you have the answer you’re looking for. But waiting for webpages to load adds time to this process – the average webpage takes about five seconds to load. With Instant Pages in Chrome, you can skip the extra seconds waiting for a page to load and get to the answers you’re looking for faster with web pages that load instantly.

Service Highlight: Social Media

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

We offer several social media services including blogging, setting up your Facebook page, posting on your Facebook page and adding applications to your Facebook page. We are also beginning to work more with Twitter in setting up Twitter accounts and posting tweets. We offer a couple of different social media packages to fit varying budgets and needs. NetSearch Direct would be glad to partner with you to manage your brand and image online.

Social media is here to stay and the more social you become now the better chance you’ll have at gaining more leads and more return on your investment. To learn more about the social media packages we offer please contact one of our sales representatives by calling us at (804)228-4400 and speaking with someone today!

Service Highlight: SEO

Friday, June 17th, 2011

We offer several SEO packages depending on how many pages you have on your website that you would like search engine optimization performed for, as well as if you are looking for local, regional or national SEO services.  We offer a couple of different SEO packages to fit varying budgets and needs.

NetSearch Direct would be glad to partner with you to manage your search engine optimization and help you compete more effectively on the internet. We can help increase your rankings in the search engines to get you noticed and we can get you leads for your business. Isn’t that what’s important? We can help you get there by helping you acquire more leads to help your business succeed and grow.

Using SEO we can help increase the chances you’ll have at gaining more leads and more return on your investment. To learn more about the SEO packages we offer please contact one of our sales representatives by calling us at (804)228-4400 and speaking with someone today!

NetSearch Direct Welcomes Catherine Roe of Google!

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

NetSearch Direct is excited to be welcoming Catherine Roe of Google to Richmond. We are throwing a cocktail party tonight at Hermitage Country Club to welcome her to town. Along with Catherine Roe of Google and the employees of NetSearch Direct there will be several associates from Free Agents Marketing attending.

NetSearch Direct is happy to be sponsoring this month’s Richmond AMA luncheon, which Catherine Roe will be speaking at tomorrow. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Catherine for her sharing her time and expertise with us and all of the people who will be attending the AMA luncheon tomorrow. We will be giving out complimentary copies of our book at the AMA luncheon tomorrow. Be sure to grab your copy of the book we wrote on SEO titled SEO 3.0: The New Rules of Search Engine Optimization.

Office & Website Redesign Project

Monday, June 13th, 2011

NetSearch Direct is currently redesigning our interior office space, as well as our website and blog. When we are finished the website and blog will look drastically different with a different color scheme, layout and content. Our office will also look somewhat different. We have cleared out clutter, opened up some cubes and made more usable space, created a sitting area in the front of the office and we plan on painting our new colors on the walls, adding artwork, adding stand up desks for associates who would like them and potentially creating another office space for a salesperson.

We are very excited to be redesigning both our physical space and our space online as many of you know us. We wish to project the image of a modern and knowledgeable internet marketing agency that stays up to date on all the current trends and tactics in online and digital marketing. Check back often and soon you will find a whole new website that will be much better organized with a much better design and feel. Once our website redesign is completed please feel free to share your thoughts with us.

Google Panda Update Coming Soon

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Google will soon be releasing version 2.2 of the Panda algorithm update.

Google’s Matt Cutts said that the update have been approved but have not been rolled out yet, but that should happen soon.

The next update will target a common webmaster complaint related to the original Panda/Farmer update: sites that scrape and re-publish content and are out-ranking the original source of the content.

Google’s Cutts also reiterated some previous Panda-related information:

  • Google will continue to tweak and update the Panda algorithm.
  • There’s no exact date yet for when Panda will launch fully beyond English-language searches.

Likester: The New Searchable Database for Facebook Likes

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Likester is a new startup that makes Facebook likes searchable in a database for you or anyone to search. The database shows trends among friends, locations, categories and the world. Facebook “likes” are of much value to brands and marketing efforts. Likester hopes to make it easier for brands and individuals to keep track of what is popular. Likester’s database is able to show you what is most popular among your friends and among all Facebook users too.

Likester hopes to help e-commerce website better leverage the “like” button. Right now Likester could be one of the only ways to find out what the most liked local business in your local area is. Likester allows you to search for the top liked websites in a specific location, what a specific friend liked and see who likes a specific page as well.

All of this data can be useful to both Facebook individual users and to businesses and brands as well.

Google Translates the Internet for You

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

You can use Google translate to translate from one language to another. Also, you can search in other languages and go back and forth between two languages when performing searches on Google.com. Google Translate allows you to translate any website from one language to another in a matter of minutes making all of the internets content readable to people all over the world who speak multiple different languages.

There is also a free application available if you have an iphone, ipod touch or ipad. You can download Google Translate on iTunes for any of those Apple devices. Google Translate is also available on the Android market now as well. You can also use Google Language Tools which will allow you to perform a translated search by typing in the search phrase in your language and Google will find results in other languages and translate them for you to be able to read.