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Avatar Went Hot: August 16, 2007 - 11:27 am
Posted By: skinner 387 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seofaststart.com)
Category: Google Other
Has anyone else here heard about this (apart from Danny Sullivan that is)? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: annie7 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has proven that they can monetize conversations with GMail and GTalk. Should we be expecting a test of AdSense on Twitter anytime soon? read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 4, 2008 - 9:08 am
Posted By: kevgibbo 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Great post from Ann Smarty: "I’ve been compiling the list of advanced Google Analytics tips that open up plenty of possibilities to track and evaluate. Today I am sharing the list and expect you to share yours too!" read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 28, 2008 - 8:52 am
Posted By: northrock 41 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Other
Why do I get enraged by this sort of activity? I remember when one of my sites was voted against, and Google paid someone to steal it and wrap it in AdSense. The person who stole my content outranked me for my own content because a Google engineer t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 24, 2008 - 2:37 pm
Posted By: northrock 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up? I found 1/3 of the pages listed on the Knol read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 2, 2008 - 12:24 pm
Posted By: yeepage 157 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
The Google Algorithmic manner of ranking and serving relevant online and indexed documents to specific Google queries has been a mystery to many over the past decade, with search marketers and mathematicians working to expose the way Google ranks si read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 7:37 am
Posted By: patrickaltoft 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.blogstorm.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
Most SEO companies, including mine, see a good number of hacked websites, usually after the site owner contacts us wanting to find out why their Google traffic has suddenly dropped for no apparent reason. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2007 - 6:29 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 316 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google Other
Many of the blogs highlighted in the update just a couple of days ago seem to have reverted to their previous position. Now for anyone who might be thinking otherwise, there are still some obvious penalties on place for a few sites, but it is less o read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: August 27, 2008 - 5:39 am
Posted By: toddmintz 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.johnon.com)
Category: Google Other
Effective 9/1/2008, John Andrews will be working for Google. He explains why in his post. read more »
12 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2008 - 1:18 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 74 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
Danny says, "About two seconds after Google Trends For Websites came out, people started noticing that one company's websites oddly had no data available -- Google's own. Google will tell you all about the traffic to competitors like Yahoo and Micro read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 10:20 am
Posted By: graywolf 72 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.splitbrain.org)
Category: Google Other
So a Firefox plugin developer was contacted by Google who asked him to stop distributing his plugin because "google couldn't scale".

I'll reach for my heavy duty roll of tin foil and start working on my hat, but I'll bet they also didn't want him read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 15, 2008 - 3:30 pm
Posted By: JohnWeb 204 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://andybeard.eu)
Category: Google Other
In response to his growing concern over Google's treatment of his site with regards to the paid links issue, "I have spent a long time deciding on a course of action, and have decided that blocking my content using Robots.txt is ultimately better fo read more »
16 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 26, 2007 - 4:45 pm
Posted By: DoshDosh 346 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google Other
Web site owners and marketers have always craved more information with regards to how Google sees their site. Google Webmaster Tools address these and other needs as they provide support for those looking to diagnose errors, improve a site’s visibil read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 10, 2007 - 9:12 am
Posted By: Wiep 271 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google Other
A response to Matt Cutts blog and the Official Google Blog: please stop being a bunch of cry babies! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2008 - 12:20 am
Posted By: gyutae 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.winningtheweb.com)
Category: Google Other
Could this be it? If you’re on top of the tech news, you know that Digg has been on sale for over 6 months now - actively looking for buyers to take on the social media monster.

In the latest round of rumors, Google is set to buy up Digg for $200 read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 27, 2007 - 1:12 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 315 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Or, I guess more to the point would be, who forgot to follow up the report by manually checking before applying the penalty? read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 23, 2008 - 8:31 am
Posted By: mvandemar 106 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Last month Google revealed a new crawling method that they were testing out, whereby they were filling out forms on sites that they came across, in order to help facilitate the discovery of new pages. Now there appears to be some unintended side eff read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: January 15, 2008 - 6:26 pm
Posted By: ciaran 235 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.97thfloor.com)
Category: Google Other
Chris over at 97th Floor makes a compelling case about Google indexing and ranking a site that seems to be clearly in violation of Google's TOS on several accounts. Intrigued? Read on.... read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 31, 2008 - 11:35 am
Posted By: mvandemar 39 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Other
Betcha those guys at eHarmony would have never thought of this dating advice! Thanks for the tip, Google! :) read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: June 27, 2008 - 8:56 am
Posted By: graywolf 71 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.economist.com)
Category: Google Other
One former executive, now suing Google over her treatment, says that the firm's personnel department is “collapsing” and that “absolute chaos” reigns. When she was hired, nobody knew when or where she was supposed to work, and the balloons that all read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 27, 2008 - 9:01 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 104 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mattcutts.com)
Category: Google Other
Matt Cutts explains what Google does when it discovers a hacked site: temporary removal from the index with a "hacked site" flag, contact the site owner, and then potential reinclusion within 48 hours when everything's fixed. read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: May 30, 2008 - 11:36 am
Posted By: rustybrick 99 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has a new, all blue, favorite icon. My life is now complete! read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 3:16 am
Posted By: ciaran 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google Other
Not content with acting as most people's default browser, Google actually now wants to be people's browser. It makes you wonder why they keep pumping so much cash into Mozilla (although for those guys I guess 'so much cash' is a relative term) read more »
19 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 17, 2007 - 11:51 am
Posted By: DoshDosh 326 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Other
It is no coincidence that Google chose not to update toolbar PageRank scores in a great deal of time before spreading more propaganda against paid links, and then launched a partial data push (how often do they do that)? This way when they finally u read more »
6 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: December 24, 2007 - 9:20 pm
Posted By: patrickaltoft 257 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidairey.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
I’m going to tell you my story. I will detail everything I know about the web pirates who are threatening my livelihood, and tell you what you need to know in order to avoid the same thing happening to you. read more »
13 Comments     


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