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Hear Milestone speak at the 2011 Mountain Travel Symposium about the importance of Social Media Optimization and Online Reputation Management. Milestone will demonstrate eBuzz Connect – its high-tech social media and online reputation management tool for the lodging and travel industry.

Google’s latest algorithm update known as the “panda” penalized a lot of low quality and shallow content sites. According to Matt Cutts, Google’s main focus is making content farms and low quality content sites less visible in search results. The good news for Milestone clients? Google is helping original content rank higher and Milestone Internet Marketing ensures the content on our sites is unique and original.

It should no longer be a question of whether or not hospitality clients should have a mobile presence. Rather, hotels and resorts should be focusing on ways to enhance their mobile presence in order to capitalize on the rapidly growing searches that are done on mobile devices. One of the fastest and most effective ways to generate mobile traffic is by running a mobile paid search campaign.

Facebook PPC campaigns can be a very cost effective way to drive traffic to a business Facebook page or website. There are distinct differences between Facebook and Google ads that are critical to the success of a PPC campaign.

Social media is having a larger impact on organic SEO factors on a daily basis. Both Bing and Google have recently taken steps to increase the influence a user’s friends have on the search results she sees when browsing the web. Taking some simple steps can help to ensure that you stay relevant to the search engines.

Search Engines support micro formats in local and SEO search. Deploying micro formats can help in SEO and Local search results and rankings.

Google and Bing have both confirmed that social media signals are influencing search engine results. As search trends continue to evolve, so will the factors that effect the SERPs. Several social media channels already play a key role in the search environment.

The importance of Local and Hyperlocal promotions is increasing day by day. Today, Local results are viewed millions of times a day with 20% of searches on Google being local in nature and 64% of the searchers on the net looking for results within 15 miles.

Facebook is a great opportunity for advertisers. With a self-serve image and text-based ads platform, it’s critical to learn the best practices for Facebook ads and avoid ad fatigue by targeting the right profiles, rotating ad copies and images, offering incentives and more.

A new set of data visualization tools can now render data visually. Charlotte Bourne of Mediative and Wister Walcott of Marin Software discuss the applications and tools for visual analytics.

Paid Search Marketing is evolving quickly and there are several new and unique ways to implement strategies into ad copy and keyword research. SMX West 2011 in Santa Clara inspired a discussion about hot topics in PPC.

Never leave a webpage alone. There’s always room for improvement. Make the small changes in design and content, and you may see a significant improvement in conversion. At SMX, the experts outlined some easy-to-follow frameworks on how to look at your webpages and see what can be adjusted to further enhance conversion value.

Users are looking for authentic engagement and a captivating voice while using social media. By giving them the respectful, robust Twitter experience they’re looking for, you guaranteeing yourself a legitimate following. Here are some tips given at this year’s SMX West conference.

This session from SMX West 2011 covers all the new ad formats Google has recently launched: AdWords video ads, AdWords SiteLinks, local AdWords, product AdWords, comparison ads etc and explores how to take advantage of these new features.

Haven’t done mobile search ads yet? You’re missing out on a growing market! eMarketer predicts that mobile ad spend will surpass $6.5 billion in 2012. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that “mobile will be a larger business than the PC-Web,” likely a primary reason Google recently spent $750 million to acquire mobile advertising network AdMob. This SMX West session looks at mobile paid search opportunities and how search marketers can get ahead of this tsunami of opportunity.

Google dramatically expanded its collection of information about the real world with its introduction of Place Pages – a webpage for every place in the world – for businesses such as hotels, points of interest, transit stations, neighborhoods, landmarks and cities. If you haven’t yet claimed your place page you’re missing out on a fantastic opportunity for controlling your own destiny and gaining valuable search traffic on Google Maps.