We are so excited to partner with The Sarasota-Manatee Originals! The Originals are such an important part of our city's history and community. They are a close-knit group of locally owned restaurants, some who have been around as long as 20 years, who are committed to keeping the Sarasota and Manatee area unique.

We have built The Originals website from the ground up! Running their social media has been such a special project for us because of their interesting events, special promotions, and variety of restaurants involved. We have taken on all of the social media platforms and are thrilled to see such a great response from the community and desire to see The Originals succeed!

We are going to begin educational programs with The Originals and teach their members about online marketing, social media platforms, and search engine optimization. These classes will help them to create a stronger image for their restaurants and understand how to tackle different online publicity strategies. This will not only enhance their own image, but The Originals image as a whole.

In the Sarasota area, we have done website design for The Bijou Cafe and Drunken Poet who are part of The Originals and are currently working on revamping The Crow's Nest. With such as strong sense of unity throughout the different restaurants within The Originals, we feel as if we have been accepted as part of their family and look forward to additional projects we take on.

by Amanda Brooks

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Our next Plugged-in Lunch Networking Workshop at the Half Shell Oyster House will be Wednesday Sep 12th at 12pm. Every 2 weeks we feature a new Business Development topic while you enjoy a phenomenal lunch in the Half Shell Oyster House private meeting room.

Google admitted today that search spam has increased in recent months, and the search giant has outlined its plan to combat spam and the rise of “content farms.”

Google search quality and SEO czar Matt Cutts published a detailed piece on the Google Blog regarding the company’s efforts to improve the quality of its search results. He starts off admitting what we’ve been suspecting for months: there are more spammers trying to scam unsuspecting Googlers.

“Today, English-language spam in Google’s results is less than half what it was five years ago, and spam in most other languages is even lower than in English,” Cutts said. “However, we have seen a slight uptick of spam in recent months, and while we’ve already made progress, we have new efforts underway to continue to improve our search quality.”

Cutts makes it clear that webspam refers to the junk that appears in search results when websites try to cheat their way to a higher position. With the launch of the new version of its search engine, Google Caffeine, Google has been indexing more content than before, including spam.

“As we’ve increased both our size and freshness in recent months, we’ve naturally indexed a lot of good content and some spam as well,” Cutts explained. “To respond to that challenge, we recently launched a redesigned document-level classifier that makes it harder for spammy on-page content to rank highly.”

read more at: http://mashable.com/2011/01/21/google-combat-search-spam/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Mashable+(Mashable)