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Noticed that a few of your Google-based Firefox extensions aren't working that well right now? Numbers missing from the CustomizeGoogle extension? It may be because Google made some modifications to their code... modifications which may also mess up read more »
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AdWords/PCC match type nitty-gritty.

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OK, I admit it, I used to be the kind of guy who was tied up with using nofollow links to channel PageRank authority to my blogs self-serving links. But I recently read a blog post over at Blue Jar, and subsequently found a great Wordpress plugin f read more »
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Google's search engine results pages (SERPS) are increasingly becoming more localised. If you wanted to see the results that people in Australia get on google.com.au when searching for terms like "SEO" then you simply accessed the regional site. B read more »
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Is The Great Google Adwords / Adsense Showing Explicit Or Adult Ads
What is happening to The Great Google??
I was doing search on one of the keyword “tantrik ” I got a big shock by seeing that Google showing this type of ads also. I know this is read more »
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According to Ann Smart "If you need to keep track of all latest news, rumors and (educated) theories behind Google penalties..." read more »
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So far since the onset of the "Vigoureux Artiste of the Month", I have featured two artists namely Toon and Johannna. I know several local artists and it's high time that I feature some of them here.

For this month, I had the chance of interviewi read more »
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Video of Matt's comments about why they don't mention big name sites that get penalized for playing with black/grey hat tactics during SES San Jose 2008 read more »
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Review of Cuil.com - Hey, better late than never right? read more »
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Great bunch of stuff including real ideas from Micheal Gray, not just the regular stuff that you see everywhere. Great read read more »
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Google is giving preferential treatment to blog posts with video syndicated from a Google video sharing site (Google Video or YouTube). Example shows page 1 ranking within hours. read more »
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Interesting experiment on manipulating google's organic results. read more »
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I have been asked countless times how to get included in the Google “One Box”. That’s when there used to be a “one-box”. Now we have Google Universal Search results. They contain listings from Google Products, Google News, Google Images, Videos, etc read more »
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After describing what your website is about, search engines pay close attention on the keywords you use in your Title, Heading, Body ,Meta tags and links. So make sure to provide rich keywords in those areas. Always try to keep rich keywords in the read more »
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This blog post puts forth a hypothetical situation in which a company buys links then later regrets it. What recourse would such a company have? Would it be possible to contact Google and ask forgiveness? read more »
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Google Webmaster Central has added a new feature that aims to make website visitors’ encounter with the perennial problem and most dreaded 404 “Not found” page a more pleasant if not useful ... read more »
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Does Google Changes Rules On Nofollow? Does nofollow still pases anchor text link juice and PR? Read here for full details. read more »
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Google Adwords Can be one of the Best Ways of Driving Targeted traffic to your website, and we all know that Targeted Traffic = More Sales.But On the other hand google adwords can also be the downfall for many people. Many people do not know how to read more »
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Old (and new) media sites are stopping to link out in articles, instead linking to pages on their site that profile the website they talk about. Will this hurt the web? Unethical? read more »
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Google Insights for search is a great tool for advertisers, marketers and entrepreneurs. You can follow the trends in search (which means you can know what the world finds interesting). The real added value of this tool to my opinion are the compari read more »
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Great post on video search optimization, the good, the bad, what you might not be doing and some strategy for views over time, instead of just lots up front. read more »
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Tad Miller of Search Mojo: Google came out publicly about using your individual search history to personalize its natural search results for your search queries over a year ago. But recent headlines about privacy of search data and Google’s new “tra read more »
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Yup, Google's found and officially declared that it's indexed the last page of the internet. read more »
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Search engines decide website ranking. If your content is genuine then it ranks well by search engines. Search engines monitor each and everything of our websites. How many visitors are getting daily, How many visitors are getting for a particular p read more »
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