Because I like to talk about the little guy, the SMB, I had to point out that Google is paying attention to the SMB as well. At least that’s what it kinda looks like.
Google has started its small business blog but they have committed the cardinal sin of new blogs. You see, if you are a small business owner and you learn that Google is blogging to help you understand more about the opportunities online for an SMB you would expect something spectacular, right?
Well, not so much. There are just 2 posts and plenty of links to things elsewhere. That’s it. You would figure that Google would have read enough to know that you don’t tell the world that you have a new blog and then show just 2 posts (with one being the intro of the blog which is news but it’s not exactly ‘content’ for the SMB). I recommend at least 20 entries be there before you tell the world about your blog otherwise you run the sever risk of people being underwhelmed.
I am really curious to see what Google does to populate this blog or will this go the way of Wave and other things that Google tried but didn’t really give a rip about?
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Hi Frank, very interesting. I wasn’t aware that Google had started a small business blog. And you’re right it is somewhat surprising to learn that they’ve made it public when it had such a small number of posts. Wonder where the blog will show up in the search results…