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By now, just about everyone’s heard of social media. After all, even the Pope has a Twitter account. But what about social SEO? With the introduction of Google Plus, social SEO has become an industry buzz word—and for good reason.

High quality web design SEO companies, like WebiMax, assist clients in building a strong and optimized website. Strong optimization built within the beginning framework of the website holds tremendous value and helps our clients surpass their online goals.

Local Search Visibility is a service that has emerged in recent years as Google has made a strong push to introduce (and enhance) local search. This service works well for companies that want to focus in a geographically defined area.

Mount Laurel, NJ, Kenneth C. Wisnefski, founder and CEO of WebiMax, announced today, that “on July 1, 2011, WebiMax will be moving our U.S. based headquarters to a 24,000 square foot operations center located in Mount Laurel, NJ”. The operations center is set to house up to 300 employees by the end of 2012.

At the beginning of last week, we at WebiMax started seeing another wave of movements in search engine rankings that suggested to us Panda 2.2 update was live. Unannounced at first, Google now confirmed today that this was in fact the case. Although we’ve all known that the update would be arriving shortly, no one knew exactly when it would happen.

If you’re an entrepreneur, CEO, or marketing executive that has been paying attention to the entire buzz behind “Google” and “SEO”, then surely you understand the importance of increasing your online visibility. Consider this: Google holds 85% market share in internet search engines. Paying attention to Google’s PageRank parameters and understanding SEO value can give your company a competitive advantage.

Kenneth C. Wisnefski, founder and CEO of WebiMax, announced today, that “in congruence with our global expansion initiative, I have appointed David Touri (Sydney, Australia) and Alex Schlup (London, United Kingdom) as Directors of our international offices in Australia and the United Kingdom”.

Announced today on CNBC, Facebook will likely have their much anticipated IPO during the first quarter of 2012. Although a price per share has not been discussed (as that is over a year away) the company is projected to be valued at over $100 billion.

Announced today, Google will be adding “Google Webmaster Tools” data directly to their Analytics platform. This is a big deal for SEO companies as a new section titled “Traffic Sources” and “Search Engine Optimization” with sub-sections displaying data of summary, queries, and landing pages.

Announced today, eBay, Inc. will acquire Magento, a popular (and highly reputable) ecommerce platform. Magento was founded several years ago and has grown from a basic open source platform to an industry leader. eBay is planning to use Magento to create a new open commerce platform, called “X.Commerce”.

Social media creates a second identity for the user; an online identity. Two part, social media is all about leveraging your online presence whether you’re a business or individual user, however, with that, comes an extreme amount of reputation management that can be easily damaged. The importance, therefore, to properly influence your online visibility must be done with careful attention.

Yesterday, Google rolled out their version of a mobile payment platform called “Google Wallet”. Their plan is to enter the multi-billion dollar mobile payments industry, which PayPal originally started many years ago. Amongst this news, PayPal promptly filed a 28-page lawsuit in the state of California against Google for allegedly stealing their mobile payments secrets.

WebiMax, the #1 rated SEO company in the United States, is pleased to announce that their SEO services have been rated #1 in Australia, where the company recently expanded operations.

Social Media firm LinkedIn plans their initial public offering (IPO) of common stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker: LNKD at tomorrow’s opening bell. The company will release tonight (Wednesday) in the after-market trading the official share price. Experts expect the price to be between $42-$45 per share. This concerns some investors, however, as the company has a slowing revenue growth and has not released projected profits for 2011. At the offering, however, the company will be valued at $4.11 billion.

Announced yesterday, Microsoft’s search engine bing will now favor websites that have been “liked” on Facebook by your friends. This obviously changes the rules of search engine optimization (SEO) in that it doesn’t seem to matter the PageRank of the website, if users are logged in to Facebook (as indicated in the top banner) then PageRank is favorably given to websites that your friends have “liked” or recommend. It does not matter if the website contains original, quality content, or even if it normally ranks far off in space of search results, as long as it is “liked” then it’s going to show up high.

The Quarterly Benchmarking Report was released today by Marin Software indicating that advertisers are continuing to shift their advertising dollars from traditional advertising methods to online advertising. The report clearly states that paid search has increased some 61% from last year. This rise in demand however has not driven up the cost per click (CPC).

WebiMax offers many products and services. One of our more requested areas of service stems from our SEO consulting services division. Here, we focus on clients that have internal teams and require additional consultation to efficiently leverage the effectiveness of their current staff. Below are some of the examples in the consulting services we offer:

Today, at the Google I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, CA, Google plans to announce an online music locker service that will allow users to digitally purchase, store, and access their online media wherever they are. The idea of a “cloud” based music service was first announced earlier this year by Amazon.com, and Apple Inc. has been in the talks of launching a similar music service.

In a report released today, Apple has surpassed Google as the world’s most valuable brand. Apple is reportedly now worth $153 billion, de-thronging Google who held the rank for 4 consecutive years. The report, released today by BrandZ, who conducts a study of the world’s top 100 brands each year, was released in London, U.K., where WebiMax recently opened an international office.

The newest addition to Google’s Analytics platform is the ability to track page load speed. This is HUGE! Improving site load speed is absolutely vital to websites (not to mention search engine optimization (SEO) campaigns).