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Google appears to have penalized Squidoo, thanks to an attack led by Jason Calacanis, who run a Squidoo competitor. Talk about a cat fight. And there read more »
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Google recently announced that they had begun to roll out universal search features, where their search results pages would contain more than just web pages and documents. This has some small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) concerned. The feeling read more »
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The newly announced Google Checkout gadget addition page is asking for permission to allow them to display it on the main Google site. Could we see transactional ecommerce gadgets right in the search results page, and what does it mean for SEO? read more »
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Google Webmaster Tools just launched Sitemap warnings. This is pretty cool because it breaks down problems with your Sitemap into two parts: warnings and errors. Before, every problem was classified as an error. Now, the only problems that are liste read more »
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Hardly quantitative but at least we gave it a go.... read more »
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In the interview with Matt Cuts about search and SEO in China, Matt and his top Chinese webspam engineer, Jianfei,answered my long list of questions with great tips and insights.

It is helpful to all SEOers and online marketers. read more »
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Most people say traffic is money, but what good if the traffic doesn’t convert ... read more »
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Detailed article on how I achieved number 1 in google for some niche keywords. Pic and resources included. read more »
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I’ve been noticing a sharp decrease in traffic to most of the Squidoo lenses I make decent money from, it appears that a few other blogs have noticed something similar... read more »
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I've developed a tool which captures the search engine love from invalid inbound links. Instead of a 404 response it sends a 301 redirect to the canonical URL. read more »
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How to get indexed in Google in an hour. read more »
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can’t all be relevant both on mate read more »
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News came out earlier that Google would be supporting a meta tag to say a document isn't available after a certain date. Here's more details about that, from Google. In addition, they're now supporting a way to report meta robots information within read more »
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A basic overview of some changes to be coming as a result of Google Universal. Impact of Video, News, blogs, and more on the top 10 serps. read more »
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No, it's not a dance, it's the Google algorithm! The Googlerithm has been prodded and poked by SEOs for years, and this review simplifies the Googlerithm into its most important components, and refers readers to authoritative articles on individual read more »
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Thank you for choosing MsMoneyGirl.net for making money online. Let me introduce a new level of SEO. read more »
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Eric draws on interviews, conference sessions, and personal experience and distills it into 15 things.

#9 mentions that at SMX, I was asked if Google penalizes sites that make heavy use of nofollow on internal links throughout the site. Eric is r read more »
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Armed with these tools I published the post, pinged Feedburner, Feedburner pinged Google and I sat back, waited a few seconds and started refreshing Google Blog Search to see how long it would take to get indexed. This is the cool part, the blog pos read more »
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Microsoft must be losing millions in UK sales as their website isn't listed for any searches on google.co.uk! read more »
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...with potential 'Duplicate Content' issues to boot. :) read more »
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The Google Webmaster Central service has gained a new "Message Center" area that will initially be use to notify site owners of official spam penalty problems and eventually used to communicate about other issues related to site inclusion at Google. read more »
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I’ve recently had some clients ask me how to increase rankings on specific subpages when seeking to target long tail phrases. I’ve also been asked about reasons why pages get tossed in Google Hell (supplemental results). Often the answer to both of read more »
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New tool to check rankings across multiple Google datacenters. read more »
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This article talks about the optimization of key components that any business can use to further their search engine promotion. Please note that this post will discuss the common traits that all businesses will need to use. Special or niche products read more »
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There's been debate over the past year or so about sites with registration systems allowing Google in but stopping others who must either have a free or paid registration. But that's cloaking! Well, Google eventually said they really prefer that use read more »
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