Merry Christmas Saskatoon! We are well into the holiday cheer at Trio. From Christmas music playing in the background, to the loads of chocolate we have already eaten, we are definitely looking forward to spending quality time with our friends and family over the holidays. 

In celebration of this time of year we wanted to share with you our clients who are running Christmas Specials this month - everyone likes a deal! We also thought it would be a great time to showcase some of the new websites we launched just recently. 

We will be posting our Christmas Holidays shortly, as well as adding a little holiday flare to our website! 

Happy Shopping Everyone - Only 19 more sleeps!

- CBB

 The Kinsmen Club of Saskatoon - Get involved with the Kinsmen's Special Needs Shopping Event

The Retiring FarmerTM Assante Wealth Management - Attend one of their financial seminars this coming winter!

Rugg & Sons Custom Metal Urns - Their workmanship is second to none!

8th Street Laser Therapy - Revolutionary therapy that increases your body's healing process. 

Inspiring Youth For Success - A Foundation dedicated to inspiring, motivating, and supporting "at risk" youth in achieving their future goals and dreams. 

Palliser/EQ3 Furniture Store Saskatoon - Everything Under the Tree give away with Magic 98.3

Bronze 1 Tanning Salon Saskatoon - Tanning Minute Specials & FREE Christmas Gift Packages 

EnviroWise Soap & More Saskatoon - Cleaning Product Christmas Gift Baskets

Untangled Hair Group Saskatoon - Hair Service Gift Cards

It is official - Google has stated that the +1's will affect your website's search results.  Read below excerpts from a TechWyse blog article published today. 

If you have questions about Google +1 and how to get it added to your website - give us a call (306) 716-0680.  Trio is a local Saskatoon web design company.

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Google has officially stated that the +1 button will indeed affect search engine ranking. This is ground breaking news as it will ultimately shape traffic; with all the hype there is about social search, a few key points should be considered, as they help put things in perspective.

• You must be logged-in to Google in order to see socially influenced results.
• If you don’t have an extensive Gmail or Google+ profile, you may not see any socially influenced results.
• Latest estimates put Google+ users at 40M and Gmail’s user-base has been estimated at 193M as of 2010.
• Although, the above stats are not specific to North America, it’s safe to assume that a large number of North America’s 270M+ person internet population are on Gmail and/or Google+.

When you +1 a site you are in effect recommending it to those in your social circle. So if I +1’d a sushi restaurant in Toronto, and one of my Google+ or Gmail contacts searched for “Sushi in Toronto,” a site with the +1 might appear higher in search results than it would have otherwise! So it’s easy to see how having a lot of +1’s can boost your organic search rankings to specific networks of people.

How Can You Get +1’s?

• Put the +1 on every page of your site. Ask your web design company to implement this on your site.
• Post on Google Plus, people can plus one your page right from their news feed.
• Rank high organically and in paid search, the +1 button appears in search results and the better you rank the more +1’s you’ll get.
• Send out a newsletter telling people that you’ve installed the +1 button on your page and that you’d appreciate it if they +1’d you.
• Ask people on other social networks like Facebook and Twitter to visit your page and +1.
• People will also be able to +1 your page by clicking on a +1 button from their browser toolbar

How You Can’t Get +1’s

• You’re not allowed to offer anything in exchange for a +1; Unlike Facebook which allows you to offer coupons and other incentives for liking a page.
• You can’t buy +1’s Google won’t tolerate and has revoked those who have sold +1’s.

In Summary

The +1 button is essentially a vote for your page, every time you vote your recommendation can be echoed across your Google-based social network (Google+, Gmaill, Google account). So if you haven’t already +1’d your own site do so from Google Search and be sure to add the +1 button to your own site!

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