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Avatar Went Hot: April 25, 2008 - 4:38 am
Posted By: janecopland 259 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Google Searching
Rand and I posted a relatively amusing piece of linkbait on Tuesday night. Little did we realise that we were about to take over the top ten most searched for phrases at Google. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 20, 2008 - 3:41 pm
Posted By: MattMcGee 202 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google Trends now tracks and shows data on individual web sites, and can compare groups of web sites together. read more »
14 Comments     
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: March 23, 2008 - 9:42 am
Posted By: theGypsy 292 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Google Searching
SEO Book.com - Lets take a look at a typical Mahalo page
mahalo.com/Best_Computer_Speakers
That page has a #1 ranking in Google with 0 unique content and 0 value to the searcher (according to Google's above guidelines).

How can Jason Calacanis read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: September 2, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: EricLander 129 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 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: 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 »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 3, 2008 - 12:12 pm
Posted By: CristianMezei 311 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seopedia.org)
Category: Google Searching
An extensive post I just made about the Google Sitelinks (what are, how to get them), where I tried to be as accurate as possible with my findings. It includes Do's and Dont's sections, a FAQ and a resume of Vanessa Fox's post. read more »
4 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: March 25, 2008 - 6:22 am
Posted By: janecopland 290 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk)
Category: Google Searching
Andy Beal thinks that The New York Time is over-reacting with its article questioning the new move; however, he seems to be overlooking some serious implications of Google's "Search within a site" feature. read more »
16 Comments     
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 »
17 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: July 3, 2008 - 7:12 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 190 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google Searching
Michael Gray writes, "Last night I was using Google Maps to get directions and noticed a new feature, a camera icon located next to each of the steps on Google Maps. When I clicked on the icon I saw a picture of my house!" He goes on to write, "... read more »
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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: January 17, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Posted By: billslawski 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Searching
Frequently used words, or stop words, were often ignored in search engine indexing, but sometimes they can be significant to a search, like one for the opening line of a Shakespearean soliloquy, "To be, or not to be?"

If using compression inte read more »
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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: 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: 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: March 12, 2008 - 10:25 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 302 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.brentcsutoras.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google has gone and added search boxes in the search results. Based on how often people show they have desired a more specific search result, the boxes will show under the site links on the search results page. read more »
15 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 21, 2008 - 12:59 pm
Posted By: ColinCochrane 233 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.colincochrane.com)
Category: Google Searching
Just like the title says, this may be the greatest sitelink that Google has ever generated for a site.

Be warned, however, because it is quite offensive. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 28, 2008 - 8:30 am
Posted By: mvandemar 226 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google Searching
Some confusion over an interpretation of one of Google Webmaster Guidelines. read more »
5 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: February 20, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Posted By: bwelford 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google Searching
Hacking WordPress Blogs is lucrative to a hacker as they create hundreds of online pharmaceutical blog posts that rank well and fast in Google searches. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 1:34 pm
Posted By: janecopland 248 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk)
Category: Google Searching
It now seems that Google is ignoring its own advice, and the use of noindex, and is indexing search results pages. If you look at Computer Weekly’s robots.txt file, you’ll see their search pages are noindexed. And yet the pages have been indexed. read more »
8 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 29, 2008 - 9:26 am
Posted By: SpostareDuro 287 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google Searching
Google doesn't like us optimizers gaming their algorithm. They have put these walls in place to keep us in check, thus making it an ongoing battle to grab the top spot. read more »
6 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     


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