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A series of questions that I would like answered honestly about the workings of Google Chrome. read more »
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As John Andrews writes, bait and switch is the practice of offering something attractive to draw an audience of consumers, to which you then sell an alternative. Has Google just done this to us with Chrome/Chromium? read more »
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South African online marketing firm Entelligence contends that Google effectively stole its client, a yellow pages publisher. read more »
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I tested Google’s new browser nonetheless and even before I could find out “how much faster it is” I was put off by a whole list of concerns and annoyances.
Read the 10 most pressing ones: read more »
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Sometimes you come across a set of search results that just don't make any sense. For most ordinary users, I suspect they probably just move on to the next query, but for those of us deeply embedded in the world of search and SEO, these noggin'-scra read more »
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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 »
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Effective 9/1/2008, John Andrews will be working for Google. He explains why in his post. read more »
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Mike Blumenthal shares a new monetization technique spammers are using in conjunction with exploiting Google Maps' long suffering mass upload feature. read more »
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Patrick thinks that Google is reducing the weight it puts on anchor text in setting rankings: it's not based on a huge amount of evidence, but it's an interesting proposition.. read more »
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Eric Ward writes, "Some client scenarios can be uncomfortable. Among them is when the client has worked especially hard to create a content area that they feel is linkworthy, and thus should attract links, but you, as the person who has to go get th read more »
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Google likes spam. Sounds surprising? Well, actually it does! Of all the spam that is generated, Google seems quite comfortable with 5% of the lot read more »
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Tom Critchlow gives us another clever and ethical linkbuilding technique. The basic principle is to find link leads by searching for pages or sites which used to offer a service and no longer do. read more »
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I have decided to try a new method in regaining my lost Google search result mojo. I figure that someone from Google is stuck reading hundreds of boring reconsideration requests per day. As a result, I determined that if my request stood out from th read more »
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According to Google themselves, their goal is to hire people who are "as passionate about their lives as they are about their work" - so why is it that a company that's concerned about the quality of their employees can’t seem find anyone decent for read more »
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Insightful interview with Aaron Wall of SEOBook which discusses SEO, the industry, SEO tactics, whether or not SEO scales and ongoing SEO challenges. read more »
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Fake Social Media Profiles - Good, Bad or Ugly. I think Michael Gray really hits the nail on the head with this one. I guess as with so many other things it really comes down to the intent. read more »
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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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A great article about Microsoft Browserank, a pagerank alternative from Microsoft.

Although I am not in alignment that Google doesn't use any user behavior data as the article implies. read more »
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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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Wil's wheels are turning, he's got some good thoughts going here......
Here’s the problem…the ad for a CMMS/EAM software appears to be BEHAVIORAL, yes I said it. I was logged out of my account when the ad showed.

I only visited that site because read more »
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Do you broad or phrase match keywords in Adwords? By default, you can't see which terms Adwords uses to trigger your ads - it could be totally bogus keywords!

You need this hack to expose exact keyword referrals, or you'll spend too much on Adwor read more »
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Michael Gray takes a purely hypothetical look importing wikipedia content into Knol and making it one huge scraper site, i read more »
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Don't let the title put you off - this is an outstanding article on the difficulties associated with doing SEO consultancy for small businesses. read more »
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The #1 ranking page on Google and Yahoo for a killer local real estate query happens to be a domain for sale. [sarcasm]Nice job, search engines. That's good for users.[/sarcasm] read more »
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The revenue rationale behind Quality Score is that users will click on fewer ads over time if the ads that are being served are not relevant. This theory, however, is based on the assumption that ‘low quality’ ads can be replaced with ‘high quality’ read more »
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