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How Google May (Theoretically) Discover Web Pages
Very often you find Google knows much more about your site than it is supposed to: you find it crawl pages with 0 backlinks (you...
Google Opening Up Trademarked Keyword Bidding on June 4th
Google plans to open up trademarked keywords to AdWords advertisers in June according to Michael Orey of Business Week. Beginning June 4th, companies will be...
Do You Use Your Brand Name in the Site Title Tags?
I normally recommend adding your brand name at the end of the title tag throughout the site (especially if the brand name is short, catchy...
Can SEO Agencies Effectively Outsource Elements of SEO?
What an odd question. Outsourcing is a tricky area for businesses though, and as SEO is a contractual business for many, agencies and freelancers often...
Duplicate Content Issues Visualized: Collection of Useful Infographics
Duplicate content is one of those topics that are almost impossible to explain to non-SEO-savvy people. The best way to that is to visualize. So...
Twitter Search to Start Indexing Pages and Launch Reputation Algorithm
Some rather interesting changes are headed for Twitter search according to Cnet’s Rafe Needleman and Twitter’s new VP of Operations, Santosh Jayaram. Jayaram, formerly the...
Google AdSense for Feeds Updates with Doubleclick.net Clickthrough
Google AdSense announced yesterday that along with the normal AdSense ads running on websites, AdSense for feeds now also runs using the googleads.g.doubleclick.net clickthough URL,...
WikiAlarm.com : Email Alerts When Wikipedia Page is Edited or Sabotaged
Want to keep tabs on when your (or a competitor’s) Wikipedia page’s accuracy is edited? WikiAlarm.com is a free new service to allow brands and...
Google Awarded Floating Data Center Patent
Google has been granted a US patent for its floating data center idea which the company originally filed with the patent office on February 26,...
Google Hires 200 Goats to Munch their Weeds
In kind of an offbeat story this weekend, Google announced on Friday that the company has contracted California Grazing, a goat herding company, in an...
An Interview with Luis Pereira, Founder of Stumpedia
Launched in February 2008, Stumpedia a human-powered search engine, was very well received in the blogosphere. It was reviewed by quite a few popular blogs...
4 Ways to Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Google Search
Last week we published a cheat list of 50+ Google and Yahoo shortcuts. Today I am following up with a smaller but also useful list...
Low Hanging Fruit and PPC Keyword Opportunities
We could call it Target Market Proximity, ROI Proximity, or Persuasive Distance. How closely your offering fits the search query comes heavily into play in...
How Google Treats Punctuation
Using punctuation in Google search results is the reason for constant misunderstanding and rumors. Meaningful punctuation, like the “#” in C#, hyphens and apostrophes can...
Is Backlink Age an Important SEO Factor?
Apart from well-known characteristics of backlinks like relevancy, diversity, acquisition rate, etc, are there any other that might be considered as well? Some people wonder...
Find Local Blogs and Discussions to Build Links and Connections
Going local is one of the most effective ways to build links and connections. I have already looked at a few ways to search for...
50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
A shortcut in general is defined as “a route shorter than the usual one.” I find this definition the best one because it can be...
Google Maps Adds Over 9000 Webcams
Google Maps has added a ‘layer’ of over 9000 Webcams so users can get live footage of different areas where they may be driving, working...
Google Reports Q1 9% Profit Increase But 3% Revenue Decrease
Google has just presented the company’s Q1 earnings and finally the report showed that Google is not immune to the crisis after all. Google’s revenue...
Google Maps More Popular Than MapQuest
Google showed us a long time ago that it can dominate in search, but it’s taken a while for it to copy that dominance in...
Google Finance Now Running Google Display Ads
Google’s expansion of running AdSense style display ads across its own network has seen new ads within Google News, Google Image Search and other Google...
Microsoft Yahoo Meetings Signal Start of Intelligent Acquisition or Merger
Microsoft and Yahoo may be in talks again on some sort of advertising partnership, or babysteps to an inevitable acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft, as...
Digg Launches New Digg Search Engine
Today Digg released a new version of their internal Digg search functionality which according to social media guru Brent Csutoras is “is a real improvement.”...
Discover Most Frequent Modifiers with Excel
Excel is one of my most favorite SEO tools. I use Excel for reporting, content planning, backlink research and keyword organizing. I discover new possible...
Google Expands One Line SiteLinks : Little Blue Links in SERPS
Over the weekend I noticed more and more Google search results with little blue links between the page descriptions and the target URL in Google...
How to Effectively Promote a Tool
You should have noticed that I can safely be called a tool junkie. I am no expert and I don’t like criticizing even rather a...
Keyword and Topic Research with Wikipedia Visualization Tools
Like I said previously, Wikipedia provides a mine of data worth digging into when researching a topic. It is user-generated, well-moderated and heavily interlinked –...
SEO & Social Media : Are You Willing to be Consistent?
So this question has been on my mind for a while now, “Are you willing to be Consistent?” I mean really ask yourself this question....
How To Leverage Rich Media SEO for Small Businesses
I deal with a LOT of local business – Lawyers, Bankruptcy Trustees, Plumbers, Movers… You name it, I’ve probably dealt with someone in that industry...
Internet Marketing Light Bulb Jokes
Why did I write this? I don’t know why. Because I write jokes… and I’m in internet marketing. I thought it would be fun to...