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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and SEM (Search Engine Marketing) has always been the great abyss to me.  How to EVEN find the time to master some of those skills is more than my overloaded schedule can handle.

I’ve engaged some very savvy friends to tweak here ‘n’ there (names provided on request), and have mulled over many an SEO pitch (there’s only a couple of million every day in my mailbox).

I may take another stab at it with GoDaddy.  Probably a few of you use this service to register domains, host your domain, blog, or otherwise manage complex internet tasks.  I like GoDaddy, mostly ’cause when I call for support I get an immediate answer from someone who speaks real old-fashioned North American English (a rarity in this day of out-sourcing).  Oh, and they always solve my issue, too.

Whenever I log onto GoDaddy, I see them adding services, tweaking their interface, and offering new value…in other words, they’re not one to sit on their (ahem) laurels.

Now, they’ve got this new Search Engine Visibility tool (I guess that’d be SEV, wouldn’t it).  At any rate, it seems to be offered as another tool in my account…no charge added-on, and WoW, it’s opened my eyes to some things I could do to get more attention to my main demo site, and hence, hopefully, more traffic and business out of it.

HERE’s the link to a brief explanation of the service.  I don’t think you have to be a customer of GoDaddy to look at this overview.  There’s a lot to digest, here, and I haven’t yet, so I don’t have much more advice to give you, but rest assured, I’ll be spending some time in the next few days, checking it out some more.

One other thing…I’ve blogged about the delightful search engine: SearchMe before.  I liked it’s visual representation of pages, and I applaud any outfit that even thinks of taking on the Google behemoth, merely from a competition-is-healthy standpoint.

Well, SearchMe ran out of funding, and as of yesterday went underground until they can find some more.  If you type <searchme.com> now, you get the Google search page.  HERE is an excellent TechCrunch article on what’s going on with SearchMe.

CourVO

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