The Best of ’3 Things You Should Know About Small Business’: May

NEW YORK (MainStreet) — What 3 things that happened in the world of small business during the month of May might business owners need to remember today? Here are some highlights.

1. What did you think of Small Business Week? The U.S. Small Business Administration, along with a host of sponsors, put on the 49th annual National Small Business Week Conference from May 20-26, where it honored nine 2012 National Champions and special award winners in a variety of categories, including home-based business champion, family-owned business champion, veteran champion and young entrepreneur of the year.

The 2012 Entrepreneurial Success award went to Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani. Ulukaya is “the remarkable and ambitious Turkish immigrant who, with financial assistance from SBA, added yogurt to his product line and today is expanding and producing jobs and dominating the U.S. Greek yogurt market,” the SBA said in a May 22 release.

Besides the awards, the SBA put on a variety of live and web-based educational sessions, many of them for free.

So did you link your marketing to the event?

2. Google’s new search algorithm is hurting businesses. Google’s(GOOG) so-called Penguin changes, implemented at the end of April, are an effort to “target over-optimized websites that were stuffed with keywords in an attempt to improve their search

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