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Avatar Went Hot: October 10, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 12 hours ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Just doesn't seem to me like the kind of thing they would normally condone. This isn't even one of those "accidental" ads that sometimes pop up due to keyword insertion in the ad. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2008 - 2:14 pm
Posted By: Maing 3 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Google SEO
Here are few tips on how to diagnose both on-site and off-site issues with Google Search and its advanced operators. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 9, 2008 - 10:07 am
Posted By: andymurd 2 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: October 8, 2008 - 8:54 am
Posted By: iBrian 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Google SEO
David Harry covers a variety of patents Google have for social profiling - while illustrating the massive intrusion into privacy.

However, the suggestion is that this could be a way to monetise social media, but there's no getting around user int read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: October 7, 2008 - 11:07 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
In an earlier post, I [Greg Sterling] solicited questions for Google about local search. My intention had been to present them at the What’s New in Local Search panel at SMX East this morning. But I didn’t get my act together to distribute them at t read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 8:21 am
Posted By: bloggeries 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businessol.com)
Category: Google
Interesting take on this by none other than Catfish himself. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 6, 2008 - 2:52 am
Posted By: Ruud 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Google Other
Google has removed the suggestion to add your site to relevant directories such as ODP or Yahoo.

Google's JohnMu explained it's just something people don't *have* to do.

Rustybrick/Barry: "I have seen this before - or similar statements. In my read more »
3 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 5, 2008 - 1:43 pm
Posted By: kelvinnewman 7 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seoptimise.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Casanova-ish KevGibbo shows how a career in PPC will give you plenty ideas for charming the ladies or the guys read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 3:15 pm
Posted By: beussery 8 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.beussery.com)
Category: Google SEO
Google removed "directory submissions" from their Google Webmaster Guideline suggestions earlier today! read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2008 - 3:18 am
Posted By: jameszol 9 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.semvironment.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Firefox Add-on that let's you see your daily AdWords stats and perform keyword research on the fly. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: October 1, 2008 - 5:24 pm
Posted By: Harith 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Running a website can be complicated—so we've provided Google Webmaster Tools to help webmasters to recognize potential issues before they become real problems. Some of the issues that you can spot there are relatively small (such as having duplicat read more »
1 Comment     
Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 3:40 pm
Posted By: martinbowling 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://snydeysense.com)
Category: Google
Dave Snyder gives us a round up of what has changed in universal search & google. read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 7:10 am
Posted By: SEOidiot 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://deanhunt.com)
Category: Google Other
Write up of how to spot and deal with potential link insertion hacks, how we solved it and a free checking tool.

Nasty hack to discover this one, hits your rankings before you notice in most cases. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 30, 2008 - 7:03 am
Posted By: steaprok 12 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wolf-howl.com)
Category: Google SEO
You know there are days where you really just cant believe the things you see. Cruising on over to the Martha Stewart blog you’ll read how they are running a contest and REQUIRING a link back to Martha’s Blog to be entered … (screen shot for posteri read more »
4 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 29, 2008 - 1:03 am
Posted By: evilgreenmonkey 15 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.out-law.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Publishers must take responsibility for the suitability of published adverts, even if the ads are chosen by an automated system like Google's AdSense, the UK advertising regulator has said. read more »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 27, 2008 - 1:06 am
Posted By: Harith 16 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Google SEO
Matt Cutts posted the following comment on his blog on September 24, 2008: "I wouldn’t be surprised if new PageRanks started showing up this weekend or so."
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/traveling-light-posting/#comment-133935 read more »
40 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 9:23 pm
Posted By: mblumenthal 18 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 - 4:22 pm
Posted By: tomcritchlow 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google
Is there a line between blog marketing and pay per post? Are promotional gifts just another form of money? Ciaran comes down on the side of no. read more »
10 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 2:20 pm
Posted By: mvandemar 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com)
Category: Google SEO
Some direct evidence countering the suggestions Google Webmaster Central blog made yesterday. read more »
7 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 11:55 am
Posted By: paisley 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
Hrmm... so what about all thos DNN, Joomla, TYPO3 rewrites i've written, do i have to change them back? read more »
29 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 9:38 am
Posted By: graywolf 17 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wired.com)
Category: Google
Few companies set out to do bad deeds, but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. When Josh McHugh profiled the young corporation in January 2003, it had one clear and concise rule: "Don't be evil." Ah well, times change. CEO read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 7:48 am
Posted By: hotwheel 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
Category: Google SEO
Unbelievable post on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog telling us to NOT use URL rewriting as it has no advantage and is too dangerous. Uh, hello?! The post itself uses URL rewriting. read more »
22 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 23, 2008 - 5:46 am
Posted By: mblumenthal 18 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 »
2 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: September 22, 2008 - 7:13 am
Posted By: EricLander 19 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 19, 2008 - 9:07 am
Posted By: KateMorris 24 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO
A further look at the initial discovery of Michael Gray's about the Google News indexing issues. read more »
2 Comments     


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