Getting Into Holiday Campaigns – Google Style #GooglePartnersPumpkins

Google sent us a pumpkin today. Time to get our holiday campaign creative on! Thanks Google Partners! Are your online marketing campaigns ready for the holidays?
DNS Issues With Network Solutions Causing Outages
Network Solutions, a registrar for domain names, is having some sort of outage today which is causing their DNS not to resolve. Anyone that has their domain registered with Network Solutions may be experiencing issues with access to their site. This is impacting some of our clients as well as many other sites across the […]
The World Has Gone #Hashtag Crazy – Justin Timberlake Video

It seems these days everyone is jumping on the #Hashtag bandwagon. The phenomenon was started by Twitter users. Essentially it started as a tag on a post to signify what the post was about. This created a way to tag your post so it would come up in search even though you didn’t explicitly mention […]
“Being Sought” is Only ONE Way to Achieve “Being Found”

I just read a post from Seth Godin the respected blogger and modern marketer: Being found vs. being sought In his post Seth pits the two ideas or techniques against each other. Yes there is a difference between just dumping keywords onto a site and hoping you will get found, and creating a product and experience that […]
TriStarr Staffing Launches New Website With Blackbird e-Solutions, LLC

We are excited to announce TriStarr Staffing’s new website! www.tristarrjobs.com TriStarr is one of our oldest and best clients. We started working with them in 2006 to help them with their SEO and Website Analytics. Over the years the relationship has grown and we are now an integral part of their online marketing efforts. TriStarr […]
How Well Do You Know Your Brand?

I came across this image today of an advertising campaign from Jeep. It’s very simple, but brilliant! When you see the simple box, never on a flat surface (which is the key to the campaign), with a P and Jeep written inside, what comes to mind? Maybe: The idea that Jeeps are so rugged that […]
Facebook Security Settings Are Under Your Control

There seems to be another chain post on Facebook that is misleading people about how Facebook security settings work. Here’s the post: “Hello to all of you who are on my list of contacts of Facebook. I would like to ask a favor of you…. You may not know that Facebook has changed its privacy […]
Coming Soon a New Blackbird e-Solutions Site!

Speaking of new sites… We’re working on a site of our own! Take a peak under the veil to see what’s coming to blackbirdesolutions.com
Blackbird e-Solutions, LLC Launches New Site for The Protocall Group

Launch Day! We are proud to announce that we’ve launched a new site with one of our best clients! The Protocall Group. www.protocallgroup.com In 2012 The Protocall Group started down the road of rebranding from Protocall Staffing to The Protocall Group to match their business model. The group is comprised of 6 specialty companies. The […]
Client Feeback – From Successfull Search Clients

We love client feedback like this. Not just because it makes us feel good, but because it means our clients are successful! Received this message from a client today: “Met with a new client today. Found us via web search. Website caused her to call us.” Short and simple but great news!
Simplified Blogging – Blogging Before the Internet Age
Think blogging is new. This is what it looked like before the internet age.
Do You Know What Keywords Your Target Audience REALLY Uses for Search?
I often have this conversation with clients and potential clients. The client will usually say something like, ” We don’t want to target (insert keyword here), because that’s not what people in our industry use when they search.” There are many reason’s why this person might say this. Sometimes it’s because they’re too close to […]