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Avatar Went Hot: December 16, 2008 - 5:22 am
Posted By: bwelford 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Google Searching
If you rely only on Google rankings, you'll miss what is really important. That's relevant website traffic, conversions and improved bottom-line results. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 10, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: Ruud 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google Searching
Post stands by itself (valid, good stuff; balanced) but another key part I liked is: "I think what is the most troubling is how the SEO industry, generally speaking, seems to not only slowly begin to see the evolution of SEO, but makes bold statemen read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 25, 2008 - 10:48 am
Posted By: jameszol 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Danny interviewed SearchWiki product pros at Google. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 6:27 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 49 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google will announce today the launch of SearchWiki, a major addition to its user interface that allows users to edit search results. When using SearchWiki, you can re-order, remove, or add web pages to the search results for any query. You can also read more »
17 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 19, 2008 - 5:50 am
Posted By: mvandemar 51 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Searching
The "Did you mean" feature of Google Search has decided that if it simply can't figure out what you meant to type in, it will just make up words of it's own for you now. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 16, 2008 - 6:44 pm
Posted By: NeO 54 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google search has now added voice recognition software to their search application on Apple iPhones. Now, iPhone users can request Google results without having to type... read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 5, 2008 - 12:20 pm
Posted By: mrmunchies 64 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.nvisolutions.com)
Category: Google Searching
As an SEO, I’ve always been a little perturbed to know that the American oriented Google index has, as its home, the aggrandized Google.com domain. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2008 - 4:34 am
Posted By: mrconn 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.garryconn.com)
Category: Google Searching
Doing a simple search for the term blog reveals some interesting information found in the SERP. There is absolutely no mention of WordPress or any other blog publishing platform. Yet, there are three instances of Google mentioned.

Ironically, af read more »
49 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 22, 2008 - 5:50 am
Posted By: barnaseo 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seo.site-reference.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google hacks for keyword gold-digging and discovering the next Watergate scandal. - "Advanced search operators are one of the greatest tools for the SEO practitioner; and hackers alike." read more »
11 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 15, 2008 - 1:15 am
Posted By: mblumenthal 86 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google's community edit feature has become the playground for blackhat local marketers. Any business that has not been claimed and validated is susceptible to hijacking, and the affiliate spammers have hijacked some of the best known national brands read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 14, 2008 - 6:36 am
Posted By: dsnyder 87 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: Google Searching
I found yet another change in the way Google hands Universal search interesting today.

These changes actually were originally noticed in Spring of this year with the inclusion of thumbnail pics. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2008 - 10:07 am
Posted By: andymurd 92 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
After resisting for many years, Google are going to provide RSS for their main search results. SearchEngineLand get the scoop. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 9:23 pm
Posted By: mblumenthal 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martijnbeijk.com)
Category: Google Searching
Streets have gone AWOL, cities have gone missing and SMB's are feeling the pain of not being able to generate driving directions to their business! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 5:46 am
Posted By: mblumenthal 108 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blumenthals.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google is rolling out a new voting tool that provides complete voter information including maps & driving directions to all polling locations.

Being able to generate a driving map for each potential voter to every polling place offers incredible read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 7:13 am
Posted By: EricLander 109 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ericlander.com)
Category: Google Searching
Blog post contains an example of a (potentially) new video search result format I've begun noticing this morning. It may be old, and if so - apologies in advance. This is the first I've seen of these results though so i wanted to share with the com read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 18, 2008 - 12:02 pm
Posted By: JoshuaSciarrino 113 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jimboykin.com)
Category: Google Searching
Yesterday QualityGal gave a few thoughts on the recent comments about Michael Gray’s take on Guy Kawasaki accepting a camera for the review…and how they feel Google should treat this (the ole paid link debate stuff). read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 15, 2008 - 9:22 pm
Posted By: steaprok 115 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google Searching
I like Guy Kawasaki, I really do, I don’t always agree with him, but I do think he’s a smart man, and a thought leader in the space. That said I do think it pretty unfair that the A-List bloggers in the space get “free gifts” in exchange for bloggin read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 9, 2008 - 11:02 am
Posted By: EricLander 121 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.ericlander.com)
Category: Google Searching
Earlier today I reached some sort of boiling point and I started up a rant about Google and the topic of reputation management online. This blog post is targeted at Google and may feature some debatable stances. Ultimately though, I hope it's worth read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: EricLander 128 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Searching
There's a beta release coming out tomorrow morning in more than 100 countries, so I've tried to collect as much information as possible tonight to help us all prepare for what will clearly be a busy week in the search industry. read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 6:55 pm
Posted By: tonyadam 134 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.martinbowling.com)
Category: Google Searching
Martin Bowling writes about Google Suggest(s) and the reputation management nightmare it could create. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 26, 2008 - 8:57 am
Posted By: mdjensen 135 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.soloseo.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google is now rolling out Suggest to their homepage, but how does this affect SEO as we know it? read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Searching
A Google patent granted this week explores how a search engine might look at queries that contain stopwords or stop-phrases, and determine whether or not the stopword or stop-phrase is meaningful enough to include in search results shown to a search read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 6, 2008 - 9:06 am
Posted By: MattMcGee 155 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Barry Schwartz details some juicy new data Google is sharing about searcher behavior. You can compare search patterns by category, by location (!), and over certain time frames. It's basically search data porn for marketers. :-) read more »
9 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 1, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: Cowley 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.setfiremedia.com)
Category: Google Searching
Essential reading if you want to optimise your Google Product Search feed. Google have released a new Google Product Search Performance Tool which shows a host of useful data about your impressions, clicks and feed items. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 4:12 pm
Posted By: EricLander 168 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Searching
Complaint sites continue to litter the SERPS for a number of major brand names and the problem is quickly growing out of control. This morning, Loren Baker introduces us to an open discussion on how to combat these negative brand influences. read more »
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