This week is blended search week on our SEO company blog, and of course, you can’t discuss blended search without understanding the various types of results that you might get, depending on the sort of query you have.  Without further ado:

Last Thursday we talked a little about blended search and how the search engine result mix has changed over time.   Today, our SEO company will cover search landscapes, how to analyze them, and most importantly how to use them to your optimization advantage.

As always, here are our SEO company’s favorite articles and blog posts this week:

Customize Wordpress lists their top ten tips for applying SEO to Wordpress.

This week our SEO company is looking at search engine optimization and online marketing through the eyes of two of Britain’s most well-known exports, David and Victoria Beckham. First of all, both of them would likely be incredibly dedicated to learning new search marketing techniques; after all, David Beckham was known for the fact that he “practiced with a discipline to achieve an accuracy that other players wouldn’t care about“, to quote his former manager at Manchester United, Alex Ferguson.

Blended search is a hot topic right now - in fact, you may even describe it as the future of search.  Blended search means a mix of traditional listings, local search, videos, images, blogs, news, book content, and even maps in the search engine results.  Our SEO company knows that blended search does have an effect on the overall SEO process, and that various types of media that show up in the results.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, it is best to follow grammar and spelling conventions; after all, writing lik this maks u look stewpid. However, our SEO company knows that sometimes breaking the rules - using an alternative spelling, incorrect grammar, or other intentional errors can make your writing distinctive and memorable.

Twitter, the social networking and microblogging application, is currently one of the hottest trends in the social media sphere. “Everybody’s on Twitter! Follow me on Twitter! I’ll tweet it!” are all common phrases, especially in the online marketing community.

One of the more common questions our SEO company encounters is this query: “when someone clicks on my website (or competitor site, for that matter), does the click-through help improve the site’s ranking in the search results”?

As always, here are our SEO company’s favorite articles and blog posts this week:

GrokDotCom points out that offline reps need to care about the online experience.

Oprah is quite possibly the world’s most famous Chicago resident, at the moment at least.  Therefore, our Chicago SEO company is looking at search engine optimization and online marketing through the eyes of Oprah.