GLiD has changed to Blend SEO Internet Marketing & Design.
Blend starts with the end in mind. A blended skill set of design and marketing contributes to SEO for a stronger, unified result. Blend is SEO (search engine optimization) infused with design and marketing. Our blog, the BlendER (ER = Everything Relevant), breaks down problems that are hard to chew into easily digestible servings.
Google Office in Atlanta
Google invited 150 search marketing professionals along with Bing, Yahoo, Razorfish and 360i into the Atlanta Google office for a mobile search marketing event. Each of the major search engines sat side by side along with Razorfish to speak on upcoming trends in mobile search and to answer our questions from search engine optimization consultants, internet marketing companies, web designers, creative agencies and any company providing SEM and SEO services among the 150 first people to make it through the door in Atlanta.
I was one of those 150 people.
The event was simulcast from Google Atlanta to offices in New York and Boston. Limited audiences were invited to attend the event in New York and Boston. A live feed from each office was projected on the wall in the Atlanta office alongside the speaker presentation screen. The speakers responded to questions from all three locations.
I showed up a little early to make sure I had plenty of time to explore the Google office. The office in Atlanta is a satellite office for Google, and as you might imagine looks like a small version of the California office descriptions, decorated with big red, yellow, green and blue circles in the carpet, carved into the walls, in the ceiling and repeated playfully throughout the decor.
After networking for about an hour with other SEM and SEO agency, marketing and designer SEMPO Atlanta members we settled down for the presentations. After introductions by various sponsors and SEMPO officials we got to the speaker presentations. Razorfish went first, followed by Yahoo, Bing, then Google.
Whether intended or not, the reoccurring theme behind was how human behavior drives mobile search. Here’s a synopsis of their presentations. …continue reading this SEO article »
I am changing my business name and the website domain name. How do I keep search engine traffic? What do I do for search engine optimization so that I don’t throw away my past SEO efforts? How do I redirect traffic from other websites and marketing to the new website?
If you are in this situation, there are two things to consider:
At the very least, I expect you will inform your current and potential customers and that the name will be changing before it happens. For example, I plan to change my business name from GLiD to Blend. The name change has been long overdue.
People may want to know why and what to expect? Will services change under the new name? Is management changing? For example, GLiD will be changing to Blend.
For GLiD, the core services have evolved from industrial design, to graphic design, to search engine optimization and internet marketing. GLiD initially was created for Greg Lee Industrial Design. Keeping the same name, the acronym transitioned to Greg Lee I.D. (for identity) and later to Greg Lee Intelligent Design (encompassing identity, print and web development). Since 2004, SEO and internet marketing slowly infused deeper into the services while providing extensive graphic design and website development while working in tandem with an influential internet marketer in Charleston, South Carolina.
The internet evolved and GLiD did too. Learning from experts in internet marketing and SEO, GLiD knowledge base grew. In January 2009, I moved the GLiD office to Atlanta, a hub for the internet marketing and SEO community. By January 2010, I began serving as the search engine optimization research and development department for the Atlanta internet marketing firm, Medium Blue. In summer of 2011, GLiD will transition to Blend, dropping industrial design to completely focus on SEO, website development and graphic design.
During the transition period, www.GLiD.us will be co-branded with banners advertising the name change to Blend. After the transition to Blend, there will still be prominent messages showing formerly GLiD, to address traffic from old links that promote GLiD. …continue reading this SEO article »
As of January 19, 2010 I (Gregory Lee) will be employed full time for the “Top SEO Company in the World“ while continuing SEO consulting. I was hired as the Research and Development Technician to help clients with websites that are struggling. I will be researching and developing new strategies to improve website visibility where the normal good practices just are not quite doing enough. I’ll be researching new algorithm changes, studying link profiles, doing competitive website research, and overturning stones to improve standard procedures. …continue reading this SEO article »
