You ever had that feeling of deja vu? You know the feeling you've been there, seen that, done something before and it's happening again? Well apparently so has Google! Search results and other efforts served to their customers are being used again by their competitor Bing; you heard me right Bing is using Google's search results.

I mean hot mess in a bad way, just so you know. While Google Hotpot is a bit disheveled, it is not attractive.

There is nothing more irritating than knowing a place exists and searching for it on Google, only to have it not show up on the location search. So when our Marketing Manager, Colin, asked me to write a post about the 5 most important ranking criteria for Google local business listings, I was thrilled. I could finally figure out just why my favorite little shops were leaving me high and dry when I tried to find their locations.

Increasing the number of quality backlinks to your website can be one of the most impactful and difficult tasks of a sound SEO strategy.

What's a Backlink?

A backlink is traditionally defined as another website that links to your own. At their most basic level, a quality backlink acts as a vote of confidence for your website. The more votes you have, the better you rank!

A very important element in building a website is color. Naturally, people connect certain colors with different emotions and feelings. People of the world see color differently. This is because tradition, religion, and symbolism affects how people feel about color. In order to create a good user experience it is very important that your palette is reflected to your audience.

First, let’s look at a few dominant colors and how they can evoke different emotions.

File this one under the, "it's good to have cash reserves in a down economy" category.

Have you found a good use for Google Wave yet? Until more people join (and there's some other way to be notified of a new wave without having to log in), I have a feeling I won't be using it too often.

But, I've got 3 Google Wave invites to hand out. If you want to see what the much hyped service is about yourself, now's your chance.

First three to comment get the wave invites!

Today may prove to be a game changer for Twitter.

Why?

Because of lists. Today marked the major release push for Twitter Lists, a new feature that's been rolling out slowly to users over the last week or so. Twitter Lists will allow you to create lists of other Twitter users, which you can share across your network.

Contrary to popular belief, I say the best day of the week is Monday. Not Friday, not Thursday, and certainly not Saturday... Monday. Why is it my favorite day, you might ask? Because on Mondays, I get to review and edit our fantastic weekly podcasts. Sure, I usually know the topics ahead of time, and most days, I even participate in the podcasts, but in a world where yesterday's news may as well be last year's news, a refresher is always good.