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Google Buzz is Social Media…Competition for Twitter?

February 18, 2010

Yet again, Goole has released another Beta program out of the hands of a a select few gmail users accounts.  On Tuesday February 9th, 2010 Google released Buzz to ALL gmail account holders.  What is Google Buzz and what is it all about?  Why do the major social media sites have to worry?
Well, it is [...]

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Google AdWords Pay Per Click Implementing Phone Number Conversion Tracking

January 29, 2010

There is a new feature soon to be released for Google AdWords Pay Per Click Advertising allowing advertisers to place a phone number below their ad. This will be an additional line, to the already overcrowded space. This means ads will have a headline, 2 descriptions, and a display URL. Optionally there [...]

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Why is Google Showing Website Breadcrumbs in Search Results URL?

January 21, 2010

If you have noticed some changes in the search engine results page, then you are not alone. Recently, Google, Yahoo, and Bing have continuously began to change the way the organic results appear. The latest change has been adding breadcrumbs, rather than the entire URL. What this means is that you should [...]

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Google has Changes the Way Sponsored or Paid Search Engine Results are shown

November 20, 2009

Many of you have been searching on Google for a specific product when you look at the right column where the sponsored results are only to see a new method for advertising. Rather than show strictly text ads, the first three sponsored results have been transformed into picture advertisements. The only text is [...]

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What happened to the Organic Search Results in Google

November 18, 2009

If you have been searching through Google lately then you would have noticed that the search results have become cluttered with Google Advertisements instead of organic search results. This is not true for all searchers as this feature is still in the development stage, but every once in a while you will get [...]

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November 2009 Google Page Rank and Algorithm Update

November 3, 2009

Google has recently updated their Page Rank and their ranking algorithm. This is a good for some webmaster and a stressful time for others. Luckily the new update has shed some more insight as to how Google ranks websites and how to increase your websites Page Rank.
Looking into many websites I host and manage for [...]

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W3C Validator not used in Google Search Engine Ranking Factors says Matt Cutts

September 20, 2009

There have been many arguments as to whether or not Google search engine ranking factors look for a clean code in a website. The W3C Schools have brought forth a very popular and widely used tool, called the W3C Validation and the CSS Validation. Basically, both these tools look at your HTML and CSS Style [...]

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Google likes Keyword Spamming! How is it possible?

July 29, 2009

Can it be true that the search engine that runs everything, makes the rules, delegates that keyword spamming is not good, created the nofollow tag…is breaking their own rules?
Yes this is true…Google Base, Google’s product search, seems to favor sites that keyword spam the product descriptions. Since the only advice on the web for Google [...]

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Google Admits Page Rank is Inaccurate and Useless

April 30, 2009

It is often debated the accuracy and use of Google little green bar, infamously know as Page Rank. People constantly ask me and others the importance of Page Rank. We often give them the answer they do not want to hear, Page Rank is inaccurate and useless. Why would you judge the importance of a [...]

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Google Recognizes Varieties in Keywords

October 7, 2008

Recently when I was performing a search for a few of my keywords I noticed that Google picks up different forms of word varieties. For example, when searching for “website optimizers” Google picked up both “optimizers” and “optimization” as a keyword for optimizers. This is something that must be taken into consideration when editing your [...]

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