ORANGE, CA-Google’s Chrome has surpassed Firefox to become the second most used Web browser in the global market, Web analytics company StatCounter announced today.

StatCounter Global Stats—the company’s research outlet—reported that Chrome took 25.69 percent of the world market in November, with Firefox trailing just behind at 25.23 percent. Just two years ago, Chrome held only 4.66 percent of the global market.

Chrome’s huge jump was not enough to surpass Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, which maintains a strong lead with 40.63 percent.

“We can look forward to a fascinating battle between Microsoft and Google as the pace of growth of Chrome suggests that it will become a real rival to Internet Explorer globally,” said StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen in a press release. “Our stats measure actual browser usage, not downloads, so while Chrome has been highly effective in ensuring downloads, our stats show that people are actually using it to access the Web also.”

In the United States, Chrome still holds just 17.3 percent of the user market. Firefox retains second place with 20.09 percent, falling far behind the clear winner, Internet Explorer, with 50.66 percent of the U.S. market. Although Chrome sits in third place, the browser has made a sizable leap from last year’s 10.89 percent.

According to rival statistics released by Net Applications, an Aliso Viejo-based Web analytics firm, Google Chrome will most likely become the second most popular browser by mid 2012.

In any case, Google’s recent growth as a Web browser, search engine and social media platform is great for those marketing their business on the Internet, especially those focused on Google SEO.

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ORANGE,CA-Google+ announced a new way for businesses to ramp up their social networking promotion today. Thanks to the updated badge making tool, companies can now display the faces of users already subscribed to their Google+ page.

The search engine giant unveiled the widget along with Google+ Pages last week, allowing businesses to connect fans with their new page on Google’s social networking site.

The customizable widget, dubbed a Google+ Badge, lets Internet users either +1 your Web page or add your business to their circles. And starting today, users can see the faces of those fans already following the brands they love.

“The Google+ badge has graduated out of preview today, be one of the first to put it on your site!” Google said in an email Wednesday. “For those who’ve already added the code, this means all users will be able to see the badge starting today.”

“Featuring both an ‘add to circle’ and a ‘+1′ button, the Google+ badge helps you grow your audience on Google+ while also showing more recommendations on Google Search,” they added.

So, what are you waiting for? Hurry up and get your company a new badge!

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TAMPA, FLORIDA — We here at Master Google love innovation and technology, even if it’s outside the realm of SEO optimization service. That’s why we contributed recently to a student robotics project at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

The college students are making a robot butler as their Capstone project.

“I admire their ability to dream big,” says Ali Husayni, founder of Master Google and the affordable SEO services company’s top SEO services expert. “I’m also proud of my brother, Mahdi Zadeh, who is part of this group of college students.”

Zadeh and his classmates plan to build a robot from scratch that has unique abilities.

“This robot will carry beverages and plates on its back and will be sitting in a room ready for service,” Zadeh says, adding the robot will be called by a microphone through a voice activation system and will take orders such as “drink,” “food,” etc. Another possibility is that it will work with a number of claps.

For example, if you clap once, it will bring a beverage. If you clap twice, it will bring food.

“This robot is going to have the ability to find you wherever you are,” Zadeh says.

Locating people will be made possible through two GPS units. Thanks to a radar system (or bumper system) it will be equipped to dodge any walls or other obstacles that stand between you and the robot as it makes its way toward you.

Although Husayni says he looks forward to seeing the finished product, he’s also happy to have been able to contribute to an interesting cause.

“I believe that part of being a good business person means giving back to the community when you can,” said the Internet SEO specialist. “This is a hardworking group of students who are going to go on to do great things after they graduate. If this project helps advance those efforts, I’m proud to be part of it.”

To learn more about Master Google, visit: www.mastergoogle.com. Alternatively, you can call the company’s toll free phone support service at 1-877-932-6559 or call internationally at +1-303-932-6559 with any questions or to schedule a free consultation with Ali Husayni.

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ORANGE, CA-After today’s launch of new pages designed for companies and brands, it’s clear that Google+ is taking care of businesses.

The new facet of the social media platform, dubbed Google+ Pages, allows businesses to add their own content so that fans can stay connected “to the sports teams [they] root for, the coffee shops [they’re] loyal to and the TV shows [they] can’t stop watching,” Google Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra said in a blog post this morning.

“So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people,” Gundotra said. “But we want to make sure you can build relationships with all the things you care about—from local businesses to global brands—so today we’re rolling out Google+ Pages worldwide.”

Social networking rivals, such as Facebook and Twitter, have long accepted business accounts. In fact, building a corporate presence on these sites has become an essential part of marketing your business on the Internet.

Therefore, it’s no surprise that—since its initial release in June—many businesses eager to get on Google+ established personal accounts to advertise their companies, but were forced out by Google as early as July. Terminated account holders, however, were consoled by the promises of corporate accounts in the future.

A week later, Google Product Manager Christian Oestlian posted an announcement to his Google+ page that a pilot program to test business accounts was in the works, to which thousands applied. Already, businesses such as Macy’s and Coca-Cola have begun using their Google+ Pages.

And for good reason. As if the release of Google+ Pages wasn’t enough excitement, Google also revealed two perks to having a business account.

“Today’s launch of Google+ Pages can help people transform their queries into meaningful connections, so we’re rolling out two ways to add pages to circles from Google search,” Gundota explained. “The first is by including Google+ pages in search results, and the second is a new feature called Direct Connect.”

According to Gundota, the Direct Connect feature guides users that type “+” before their query to the relevant Google+ page. For example, those searching for “+Pepsi” will be immediately redirected to the beverage’s Google+ page.

In addition to the aforementioned features, Google+ gives businesses the freedom to add friends or companies to their circles, interact with customers via Hangout video conferencing, attract followers and share information about themselves. Google+ Pages offer unique capabilities that Gundota is sure the corporate world will love.

“Not only can [fans] recommend you with a +1, or add you to a circle to listen long-term,” Gundota said. “They can actually spend time with your team, face-to-face-to-face. All you need to do is start sharing, and you’ll soon find the super fans and loyal customers that want to say hello.”

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ORANGE, CA— Google’s U.S. market share increased from 64.8 percent in August to 65.3 percent in September, reaffirming that the search engine should be the main focus of business owners’ search engine optimization campaigns.

On October 11, comScore, Inc.—a global leader in digital business world analytics—released its monthly analysis of the nationwide search market, revealing that 65.3 percent of searchers typed their queries into Google’s search box. During the same month-long period, second place market shareholder Yahoo fell to 15.5 percent, trailed by Microsoft’s Bing that remained unchanged at 14.7 percent.

Ali Husayni, SEO expert and founder of Master Google, said that Google’s increase was predictable, considering the company’s history of technological innovation.

“With Google being the cutting edge provider of search, it’s only natural for their search market to grow,” he said.

Husayni said that Google’s recent raise in market shares validates Master Google’s concentration on the search engine giant.

“It reiterates our thought process in developing our SEO strategies to focus on Google alone,” Husayni said. “Ranking on Google is what generates new business, which is our goal for every one of our clients.”

Following the release of the comScore report, shares of Google increased by $22.05, amounting to $537.17, compared with Yahoo, which rose just 37 cents to $15.84 and Bing, which climbed 69 cents to reach $26.94.

“Business owners should be aware that, in order to stay in business and grow, they need to be found on Google search results,” Husayni added. “That is the bottom line. If your business is not on Google, your business is doomed.”

Google’s third quarter results, which were announced October 13, reported revenues of $9.72 billion. “We had a great quarter,” said Larry Page, CEO of Google, in a press release posted on Google Investor Relations. “Revenue was up 33 percent year on year and our quarterly revenue was just short of $10 billion. Google+ is now open to everyone and we just passed the 40 million user mark. People are flocking into Google+ at an incredible rate and we are just getting started!”

The wealth of new search features and social networking components is what sets Google apart from the competition, Husayni said.

“The search results are not diluted or full of spam,” he said. “They have a very sophisticated, fast-paced way of analyzing sites and their relevancy to a particular query. What’s more, their development of Google+ is a good alternative to Facebook and Twitter.”

Husayni said that, in light of Google’s imminent monopoly of the search market, the Master Google team will continue becoming better at optimization strategies specifically geared toward Google crawlers.

“Now there is going to be even more competition for Google placement,” Husayni said. “And Master Google will certainly rise to the challenge.”

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TAMPA, FLORIDA — Ali Husayni has been a prolific writer in the past several months, and that is apparent in the September issue of Orthotown Magazine, where one of his articles appears.

Husayni, founder of the SEO consultation firm Master Google, wrote an article titled, “Long Live the King- SEO Still Rules the Internet Marketing World.” The article explains how SEO marketing strategies provide the best value for the money.

The article tells readers how developing keywords, optimizing their websites, developing quality inbound links, participating in social media circles and utilizing Google Places can help orthodontists ensure that when people in their geographic location search for orthodontic providers, their websites appear prominently in organic search results.

The Orthotown article features comments from two of Master Google’s clients who have had a great deal of success in their practices as a result of their SEO campaigns: Bob Donovan, administrator of Dr. David Alpan’s practice, Aesthetic Orthodontics in Las Vegas; and Peter Eisenhuth, administrator of Dr. Jennifer Eisenhuth’s Eagan, Minnesota orthodontics practice.

Donovan and Eisenhuth offer valuable insight to orthodontists considering an SEO campaign, Husayni says, adding that he was particularly happy with Eisenhuth’s input because Eisenhuth had worked with two other SEO firms prior to choosing Master Google. That experience brought about several helpful tips, which Eisenhuth shared during his interview for the article.

“I’ve enjoyed showing readers of these publications how our search engine optimization results are better than those of our competitors by explaining a bit about what we do,” says Husayni, who has had articles published in “The McGill Advisory,” Bentson, Clark & Copple’s “reSource,” and “The Progressive Orthodontist” this year.

Husayni also has been forthcoming with advice on what practitioners can do on their own to improve their SEO in Google organic search results.

“We’ve shown through some of these articles that there are several steps orthodontists can take on their own to improve their sites’ rankings on Google,” he says. “But we also make it known that for advanced SEO work, it’s best to bring in a professional. Of course, we want them to choose us because we truly believe our efforts are the most effective and we back that claim up with an SEO guarantee.”

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TAMPA, FLORIDA — Google search optimization expert Ali Husayni recently had an article published in the popular orthodontics publication- Bentson, Clark and Copple’s “reSource.”

It is a quarterly publication.

Husayni’s article gives helpful tips on how- with the proper approach to SEO- first page Google results are at orthodontists’ fingertips. The article is titled, “Beat Your Competition on Google Organic Search Without Hiring an SEO Firm.”

“We’ve had an incredible amount of success over the years with our orthodontist and dentist clients, in terms of getting their websites to appear on the first page of search results for their most important keywords,” says Husayni, an SEO services and website ranking expert. “There are plenty of steps practices can take on their own to improve their search rankings, and this article shares 10 of the most important steps.”

Some of the tips Husayni gives include recommending that practices list their sites on Google Places, and having their webmaster build a blog under their site’s domain name.

“Particularly with Google SEO, blog updates done frequently are a key factor in improving organic search results,” Husayni says.

Other recommendations made to orthodontists were to write articles and press releases about their practices and post them on their blogs and on relevant distribution sites. Husayni also recommends that practices add their sites to the Yahoo! Directory.

Orthodontists who belong to professional organizations can request that those organizations place a link to the orthodontist’s site from their site. He listed civic organizations and non-profits as examples.

Husayni embarked on an article writing campaign earlier this year to share important SEO information with orthodontic and dental professionals. He recently has had articles published in “The McGill Advisory” and “The Progressive Orthodontist,” in addition to “reSource.” He also has an article slated for publication in an upcoming issue of Orthotown magazine.

“I would like to parlay this into some speaking engagements at future seminars and conferences,” Husayni says. “SEO is important, and I enjoy helping dental and orthodontic practices increase their revenue by enabling more patients find them easily online. I want a platform to share this information with more of these professionals.”

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Tampa, FL — Our resident professional SEO expert, Ali Husayni, has had an article published in the July issue of The McGill Advisory, a prestigious monthly publication geared toward orthodontists and dentists.

Husayni’s article explains how dentists and orthodontists- or any business, for that matter- can create a successful Internet search engine strategy for themselves.

“Every year, more dentists and orthodontists who have websites see how significant a role the Internet plays in attracting new patients,” says Husayni. “I felt that by providing some information on SEO link popularity and other SEO-related topics, it would be helpful to practices who are interested in bolstering their Web presence.”

Furthermore, Husayni knew the information he provided might also help doctors determine whether providing quality SEO services for themselves was a task they could tackle alone, or if they needed to turn to a SEO consulting firm to achieve their goals, he says.

“Sometimes providing a road map for SEO services has the opposite effect of giving a business owner the confidence to try making some changes and improvements on their own,” Husayni says. “Sometimes it actually shines a light on how much you don’t know about SEO, and provides the tipping point that prompts you to turn to a professional.”

Either way, Husayni is happy to provide the information, he says.

Husayni’s article shares information about recent changes in Google’s algorithm that might affect business’s website rankings. Here at Master Google, we help clients stay abreast of their sites’ rankings by providing weekly SEO ranking reports.

The article also covers information on Google’s anti-spam strategy, and it sheds light on the difference between “black hat” and “white hat” SEO techniques. It also explains what it could mean if your website is ranked on Page 1, but drops off the first page unexpectedly, as well as what fluctuations in your site’s rank might mean.

“The only thing not changing with SEO is that it’s always changing,” Husayni says. “It is my hope that the article makes that point clear to dentists and orthodontists and prompts them either to be diligent in keeping up with those changes as they handle their site’s SEO, or to partner with a qualified SEO provider to handle that task for them.”

The McGill Advisory costs $20 per issue for individual issues, or $227 for an annual subscription. Dentists and orthodontists interested in subscribing to The McGill Advisory can contact the publication for more information, (888) 249-7537, or visit their website: www.mcgillhillgroup.com.

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The previous Webinar by Sara Bryant on how to create ear grabing messages was a blast. Certainly on target as far as how to introduce and engage your customers to help you sell without actually selling.

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But you don’t have to be a procrastination victim anymore. On Tuesday, July 26, we will be hosting a free webinar called How to Power thru the 5 Types of Procrastination and Not Only Finally Get it All Done… But Get it All Done Faster and Easier.

In it, Dr Stephanie Sarkis will show you the five different types of procrastination, what triggers each, and simple solutions for each. And because it’s Ask2Achieve, she’ll also answer all your most pressing questions on how to stop putting things off, and get them finished. It’s invaluable information for any business owner or executive who needs a push once in a while… Or needs to push their employees.

So don’t put this off… Click here now to register for the free webinar. And start checking things off your To Do list. Also, at the bottom of her page, please post your question!”

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Being placed at the top of Google for keywords people search for definitely increases your site’s traffic. Here are some case studies on how ranking well on Google organic search results can do just that.

Mastergoogle.com

Given that SEO companies compete vigorously to rank well for our keywords, having any presence on the first page of Google for its related keywords and generating traffic is extremely difficult. But, as an SEO company that thrives by being able to rank its clients at the top of Google search results, we certainly have to prove it by helping our site rank at the top.

Google SEO Increases our site visitors by 198% since last year.

Mastergoogle.com is a domain we registered exactly two years ago. In the first year, 12,646 visitors found our site by searching on Google. This increased to 37,773 in the second year. And yesterday, we had the maximum number of visitors finding our site in a single day: 186.

This trend is not unique to our site. We serve many Google SEO clients that have trusted us with ranking them at the top of Google for sometimes very competitive keywords. Read more…

Mavenlive.com

Mavenlive.com is a unique and innovative physical therapy software that allows doctors and physical therapists to organize, modify and print exercises for their patients.

In the past year that we were working on their organic SEO, their site has witnessed an increase of 16,000 visitors. This is a 794% increase.

Google SEO Helps Start Up Company Increase Its Organic Traffic By 794% In One Year.

As a start up company, Mavenlive.com had to compete with well-established software companies on the first page of Google. Today, they rank #1 in Canada and #3 world-wide for their most important keyword: physical therapy software.

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