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Facebook Has More Traffic than Google Search!

March 30, 2010

This is something very interesting to take not of. Today for the first time in years, Google has dropped from the number one most searched site in the world to the second most searched site in the world. What does this mean for Google and what do they plan to do about it? [...]

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Google Maps and FourSquare Team Up and Create FourWhere

March 18, 2010

FourWhere, the newly created location based social search engine tool displays Foursquare comments and advice through Google Maps interface.  This gives Foursquare users the ability to search for and learn what other users are saying about nearby places and locations.
To work the new application simply input an address or location into FourWheel ad right click [...]

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Google Search May Soon Be on Your TV

March 12, 2010

Google is always dabbling in new adventures and ways to increase their profit margins.  Their most recent endeavor is providing search engine results on live TV!  Currently, Google is in the testing stages with Dish Network to create an exclusive TV programming search engine service.
This is still in it’s initial testing stage and is not [...]

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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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Microsoft’s Windows 7 May Cause Battery Issues

February 3, 2010

Many Microsoft Windows 7 users have started to notice a decline in their batteries longevity.  At first they were confused thinking it was the BIOS drivers that needed to be upgraded, but then began to notice that others who installed Microsoft Windows 7 had the same problem. 

The problem is not prone to desktops, but [...]

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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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Robots.txt Meta Tag Versus X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header .htaccess

December 17, 2009

It has become common practice to implement robot.txt files to prevent the search engine spiders from crawling your webpage and having it show up in the search engine results page (SERP). Unfortunately, robots.txt does not prevent your site from showing up in the search engine results. That means your web page is passing on link [...]

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Tips for Header Tags and Page Title Keywords for the Search Engine Spider

December 16, 2009

The search engine spiders live to read pages that are keyword rich with original content and tons of incoming links. This system pretty much ensures that your website will rank well in the search engines and overtime rank for general, hyper competitive keywords.

Try not to repeat the same keywords in the title, unless [...]

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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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