Posts Tagged ‘googles’


Your Twitter Authority Matters

Wow… I’m stunned. I just read yesterday’s article from Danny Sullivan about the influence of social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, in Google and Bing.  (What Social Signals Do Google & Bing Really Count?, December 1, 2010) Image via Wikipedia What amazed me most is that Google pays attention to your influence on Twitter! They [...]

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Google Tests New META Tags for Duplicate Content

For a very long time, the duplicate content question has plagued SEOs from around the Internet. Does it matter? What happens when you put it out there? Does Google penalize you? Image by Getty Images via @daylife All of these questions are valid for webmasters wanting to know how they can be credited for their [...]

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Google’s New Search Preview

Have you seen it yet?  Google just came out with a new feature that allows you to preview a page before you actually click on the link. All you have to do is rest your cursor on the listing and the page pops up in condensed form. If it doesn’t, there’s a small magnifying glass [...]

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Google: Another Algorithm Change?

Google has been really busy mucking about with their algorithm over the past couple of weeks. It seems that now, they might be putting greater emphasis on some internal pages than on root domains, which could have more to do with the page’s popularity. Image via CrunchBase Aaron Wall of SEOBook.com wrote a great article [...]

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SEO Competition Research

  Image by Maria Reyes-McDavis via Flickr   Since I'm into SEO, I have a friend, who often asks me to check out a Google #1 listing and tell him why it's #1. I don't run an extensive test, but it's pretty easy to see what makes a site rank vs. others that don't. So, [...]

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Google Suggests You May Need a Name Change

Privacy issues are of concern to many people today. They worry that someone will steal their identity. But how about this? In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt states that if you get a bad reputation online, you need to change your name. Hmm… So, that means college students caught drinking [...]

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Why Is Google Binging It Up?

Today, I got an IM from my good friend, Brian Edmondson, who asked if I'd seen Google today. I'm like, "No. Why?" Then, he asked me if I'm an SEO. Smart ass. LOL What he was referring to was "Instant search," not really a new thing. You may have already been using it and just [...]

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