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Lipstick on the Google Blogsearch Face
Google Blogsearch Has A New Face Matt Cutts signals that Google Blogsearch now has a new home page. More and more people are spending free time (and work time) online and lots of those people w...
MarketingConsultants.com Is For Sale
The Domain Name Is On Sale At Sedo Many Marketing Consultants probably received an e-mail message from H Syed, who is selling the domain, MarketingConsultants.com, on Sedo. At the time of writ...
Google Chrome Manual
Google Chrome may be too simple. John Brandon asks this morning whether interest in Google Chrome is already waning. He feels that: People use IE because it comes pre-installed and does mostly...
Yahoo Buzz Is Quite Delicious
As Stephen Wilson tells us, Yahoo Buzz is now open to everyone. Yahoo Buzz is a way of telling the world about websites that have particularly delighted you and the Buzz Log gives added visibility to...
Search Engine Olympics - a Gold Medal for ?
Which Search Engine wins the Medals? Today’s headline suggests that Yahoo Wins Gold Medal for Online Olympic Traffic. As U.S. workers continue to check out the Olympics online during the work w...
DMOZ Descriptions Do Not Work For Google
Human beings sometimes work with concepts and may use different words to express the same idea. This human intelligence is not easily mimicked by a computer which is digital. True or false, that is ...
Ideal Google Snippets To Target Your Prospects
The NUB Of Getting More Internet Sales, as described in a recent SMM newsletter, is to make sure that you provide the very best solution for those prospects in your niche who are feeling pain, in othe...
Knols, Knols, Decisions, Decisions
.. or as Tiffany Monhollon so deftly put it in the words of the bard, To Knol or Not to Knol? Her post is well worth reading since it summarizes much of the present decision problem many of us are fa...
Google Cannot Do All Internet Advertising
Last week saw the launch of Google’s Knol, a sort of Wikipedia With Ads. This is a major event, which will impact most Internet stakeholders in very significant ways. It had been running in a ...
Business Strategy Reality Check With Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Some might find the title somewhat oxymoronic, given that the words Business Strategy are coupled with the notion of a Keyword Tool. However the linkage will become clear later. Recently Trevor Cla...
Website Signposts To Help Visitors Find Their Way Around
Introduction Where can I find what I’m looking for? Website visitors can be either humans or robots / spiders from the search engines. Although human visitors are what you are seeking, those ...
Advanced SEO - A High-Level Overview
SEO is good. Advanced SEO must be better. The level of chatter on the Internet about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is at an extraordinary level following the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle on ...
Someone is wrong on the Internet
Matt Cutts of Google has an intriguing slip in his post, Something is wrong on the internet!. He is referring to this cartoon by xkcd. Matt Cutts said something rather than someone. He went on to s...
Google Search Quality Lifts The Veil - A Little
Google Search Confesses It Should Open Up More Udi Manber, VP Engineering, Search Quality, acknowledges in the Official Google Blog that Google Search Quality is overly secretive. Search Quality is...
Tag Clouds To Guide You
The box you see at the top of the right sidebar, which is labeled Popular Tags, contains what is called a tag cloud. All the SMM blogs are now displaying such a tag cloud since, as explained elsewher...
Keyword Selection Strategy
Christine Churchill has an excellent article today listing costly keyword research mistakes. They are Targeting keywords that people never use Confusing keyword popularity with keyword appropriatenes...
Microsoft should KISS more often
KISSKeep It Simple, Sweetheart Microsoft has finally said its courtship of Yahoo! is over. Perhaps it was never meant to be. Danny Sullivan has a very fine analysis of the whole saga and wonde...
Will Google Find Waldo?
Finding Waldo seems to be a hot item at the moment. The natural way to find anything now is to Google it. That’s the challenge that Melanie Cole, a Media Art student, has set Google Earth. The g...
Ten Commandments For Google Links
Some website owners seem to feel that there are three steps in creating a successful website. These are: Design the website Do on-page SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for the Web pages Get links to ...
Google Blog Post Snippets Are Now Dated Just For You
Malte Landwehr commented on an earlier post on the changes in Google snippets for blog posts. He noted that the Google snippet dates on his blog posts appeared in a German format and therefore requir...
Google Snippet Rules Change For Blogs
A previous post discussed the importance of Google snippets in bringing visitors to your Web pages. It is of course important to rank towards the top or even #1 on a Google keyword Search Engine Repo...
Do Google Snippets Work Better Than Twitter?
Brevity is the soul of wit - Oscar Wilde A surprising number of people, and indeed some surprising people, are now using Twitter to give status reports on what is happening in their corner of t...
Headlines Are For Humans, Titles Are For Robots
For good SEO, choose the right title. As we all spend more time in social media, such as Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon or Sphinn, the ability to write catchy headlines becomes as important as it ...
How Wordpress Blogs Are Hacked
Hacked WordPress Blogs can score well and fast in Google The previous two articles in this series have suggested ways to combat the ever-increasing hack attacks that WordPress blogs are receiving. I...
Blogs Take Center Stage For Marketers And For Google
Blogs Move Into The Spotlight Brian Solis has just published The Definitive Guide to Social Media Releases. It would appear that Social Media Releases are what Press Releases have morphed into ...
Wordpress Blog Hacked
It’s hardly news. Hacking into blogs is far more prevalent than you may think. A Google search for ‘My Blog Was Hacked’ gives a count of over 2,770,000 web pages. I regret to say ...
Where Do You Shop - MSN, Yahoo or Google?
Which Store For You -MSN, Yahoo or Google? Back in 2004, Jakob Nielsen expressed concern that Search Engines were becoming Answer Engines. As a Pew Internet Report at the time confirmed, Internet use...
A Better Slogan For Google
Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” Could Be Much Improved For Google, their much-touted slogan of “Don’t Be Evil” seems to do more harm than good. It so easily genera...
URLs - Human-Friendly Or Robot-Friendly?
To WWWOr NotTo WWW. Many websites will find at least half of their traffic comes because someone has done a Google search. Sometimes it’s even higher than that. So if there is a conflict...
When I’m Not Doing SEO
Sometimes I Sit and Think: Sometimes I just Sit This is one of those meme posts. You know what I mean. Someone tags you and you’re supposed to tag someone else. If it’s someone you kno...