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Google Browser Size Tool
I came across an interesting post on the new Google tool from Website Magazine that test your website pages for visible call to actions. Here is the post right here. The browser size tool is right here. The post makes a great point about how visible...
Another Reason To Use Twitter & Facebook
I will let this article speak for itself, but here is just another reason you should be using social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. You can see a running example right now for Heisman Trophy. Notice the scroll box half way down the resul...
Cutts Discusses Future Of Search
I was behind on watching some Matt Cutts videos and came across one from last week where Cutts discusses big changes he sees in search in the next few years? He hits on Mobile as well as SMS. Pretty enlightening stuff. Also sorry for the shorter pos...
Inside the Mind of Google
Admittedly I do not watch much television which I am very proud of, but last night I made it a point to watch the CNBC special, Inside the Mind of Google. If you get a chance, it is a very good story along with great interviews by Maria Bartiromo. W...
I Feel The Need... The Need For Speed
Nope, no Top Gun movie clip here.Matt Cutts recently did an interview at PubCon with Mike McDonald and talked about Google Caffeine and more importantly gave a hint about how site speed MAY matter in the future in regards to ranking. He noted a few ...
The 6 Month Measuring Stick
I get a frustrated email every now and again from reader who is wondering why after 2 months they are not on page one of Google. Well, besides there being so many factors that go into ranking to begin with, it is almost an impossible question to ans...
Google Affiliate Program Continues To Grow
It seems every other day I get an email from the Google Affiliate Network of more and more advertisers coming on board. I use quite a few and have been impressed with the results. I have heard of and seen a few Wordpress plugins that are coming alon...
Matt Cutts Video On Titles & Snippets
Today is one of the better videos by Matt Cutts from Google in which he thoroughly explains how Google comes up with the snippets and titles for web pages. Listen closely and you can see how your content can be reflective how snippets used as well a...
Matt Cutts Site Review Video
I came across an older video I had not seen before. Matt Cutts has live examples of websites and actual reviews them as well as takes questions from the audience. The video is quite long at 62 minutes, but well worth the watch. You will indeed pick ...
2009 Ranking Factors From SEOMoz
SEOMoz just released it's newest 2009 Ranking Factors a few days ago. I was going to include this in my weekly Saturday post, but thought it deserved it's own post instead. They survey the top SEO experts and compile answers to questions on each of t...
Is Your Site Suffering From Keyword Cannibalization?
I looked at a site yesterday of a reader that was asking why some of his pages were not ranking better. The site had good backlinks, fairly good SEO, nice link juice flow and the home page was ranking very well for it's term. Taking a closer look at ...
Landing Page For Less Important Pages
Now that page rank sculpting is all but dead, we need to concentrate more on where exactly to flow the juice of the site. Let me again reiterate, that I am more concerned about a page getting the most juice possible than I am about page rank itself. ...
The Best Blog Post Ever?
OK, to say the best blog post ever is a little strong, but the latest offering by Rand Fishkin from SEOMoz, certainly ranks right up there. The post is entitled, Perfecting Keyword Targeting & On-Page Optimization and it clearly is one that should be...
Google On Crawling & Indexing
It has been a while since I pointed to the Google Webmaster blog, but recently they did a post on optimizing your crawling and indexing. The presentation below shows the best practices for crawling and indexing. In the slides you will see some real t...
Google Now Sending Reconsideration Request Messages
Google Employee, Sagar Kamdar, recently posted a reply in the Google Webmaster Help forum that they are now sending confirmation messages after a reconsideration request was processed for a site review. Although it seems they do not tell you if the s...
Why It Makes More Cents To List Fewer Product Listings
How many products should one show on a niche site page? This is always an ongoing question for niche site users. Lets look at it from a Page Rank distribution focus or as I like to call it: Link Juice. Now Page Rank is a highly debatable topic, but t...
Matt Cutts On Google Deindexed Sites
Deindexed sites are common in the affiliate marketing world. This is not just for BANS sites as the common factors are usually site thinness or other major no nos that Google dislikes. While there is really no SURE FIRE way of getting it back in the ...
Do Link Shorteners Pass Page Rank And Link Juice?
Tiny urls and link shortners are here to stay. It makes posting urls easy via Twitter and several other platforms. While not all link shortener services are created equal, MOST will pass page rank or link juice if they are using a 301 redirect. Matt ...
Matt Cutts WordCamp Slide Presentation
Google guru Matt Cutts gave a talk at WordCamp San Francisco 2009 recently and has posted the slide presentation on his blog. There will likely be a video of the talk released soon, but there is plenty of great information in the slide presentation a...
Video On Using The Google SKtool To Categorize Keywords
Was browsing Twitter today and came across a great post on Noble Samurai. It covers some Latent Semantic Indexing talk and also the use of the Google SK tool to categorize keywords. Definitely worth a read and a watch. ...
Google Can See Your Private Domain Registration
Google sees everything and I mean everything. I was asked via email whether using private domain registration will hide your info from everyone, Google more importantly. In a short answer, no. You see, Google actually is a Domain Registrar. (see #895...
Google Webmaster Tools Updated
Google webmaster tools has a fresh updated look. Rather than rehashing everything, I really suggest you read the review that Aaron Wall from SEO Book. He goes through all of the features of the new layout and does an excellent job explaining each fac...
There Is More To Niche Traffic Than Just Google
Google is the king of search engines, but that is like saying the sky is blue. We already know it to be fact and do not need daily reminders of it. However most niche site builders are TOO reliant on Google and can have huge swings in traffic with ev...
Keyword Stuffing Is So 2007
The search engines are getting smarter by the day as is the surfer. Just 2 short years ago, you were able to give yourself a little boost in the rankings for mentioning your keyword several unnatural times in your content and bold it. I am sure we ha...
Video Of Matt Cutts Explaining Link Command
Here is a great video of Google great Matt Cutts discussing why Google only shows a small backlink selection with the link operator command and also explains that you can see your true backlinks in Google Webmasters tools. ...
