Promote Your Insurance Agency Website » Google http://www.insurancewebsiteblog.com Insurance website, Design, SEO Tue, 11 May 2010 00:12:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Matt Cutts – What Google Knows About Spam http://www.insurancewebsiteblog.com/2008/12/13/matt-cutts-what-google-knows-about-spam/ http://www.insurancewebsiteblog.com/2008/12/13/matt-cutts-what-google-knows-about-spam/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 22:18:42 +0000 admin http://www.insurancewebsiteblog.com/?p=126 Who is Matt Cutts?
Matt Cutts works for the Search Quality group in Google, specializing in search engine optimization issues. (Source)
Matt’s: Blog: http://www.mattcutts.com

He knows his stuff and put out a video earlier this year with some pretty good insight into website spam, SEO and Google.

Video Notes:

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Those are not the only search engines out there, there are others; they may not be as popular as Google or Yahoo but they do have web users searching on them. So how important is it to submit your insurance website to the major search engines? Extremely! Take a look at the list below and see how many search engines (This is only a partial list) scan Google, Yahoo or DMOZ for their own search results.

Google www.google.com http://www.google.com/local/add/lookup?hl=en-US&gl=US
Yahoo www.yahoo.com http://listings.local.yahoo.com/csubmit/index.php
MSN www.live.com http://maps.live.com/localsearch/YPDefault.aspx
DMOZ www.dmoz.org http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
AltaVista www.altavista.com (Powered by Yahoo) http://www.altavista.com/addurl/default
Ask.com www.ask.com Uses DMOZ
AllTheWeb www.alltheweb.com (Powered by Yahoo)
AOL www.aol.com (Powered by Google)
Netscape www.netscape.com (Powered by Google)
Excite www.excite.com (Scans major search engines)
Lycos www.lycos.com Not available
WebCrawler www.webcrawler.com (Scans major search engines)
Dogpile www.dogpile.com (Scans major search engines)
Mamma www.mamma.com (Scans major search engines)
Gigablast www.giggablast.com Submit site
]]> http://www.insurancewebsiteblog.com/2008/08/25/adding-your-insurance-agency-web-site-to-search-engines/feed/ 1 Local Search – Google Local Search http://www.insurancewebsiteblog.com/2008/07/28/local-search-google-local-search/ http://www.insurancewebsiteblog.com/2008/07/28/local-search-google-local-search/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:36:41 +0000 admin http://www.insurancewebsiteblog.com/?p=5 When it comes to search engines local search should be a top priority for your insurance agency website. Integrated with Google Maps and normal Google Search; Google local search does an excellent job displaying local companies. The best part about local listings is that it is free!

Doing a Google search for the key words: “insurance, Jacksonville” I am able to see a handful of insurance agencies listed next to a map above the normal search area. This is prime real estate for your insurance agency website.

How do you get your agency listed on the top?

Well that question is really only known by Google, but there are some things that you can do to help get noticed.

Own your business

Well, you may already own it, but let Google know that you do.

http://www.google.com/local/add/lookup?hl=en-US&gl=US

The above link allows you to enter information about your business. To make it even better, Google goes an extra step and will either call you or send you a postcard in the mail to verify that you are who you say you are. Once you have verified your business; Google allows you to enter hours of business, photos and more detailed information.

On a scale of 1 to 10 for importance, I would rate this as an 11. A must for every insurance agency.

See also:

Local Search – MSN (Live.com)
Yahoo Local Search

Next week: Yahoo local search

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