Archive for July, 2010

Google, Content Farms & Why This May Be Blekko’s Moment

2010/07/26

At the beginning of Google’s “Searchology” event in early 2007 original Google employee Craig Silverstein opined, “If Google had started a year or two earlier, it wouldn’t have worked.” That’s because prior to that time (1998) the internet wasn’t yet large enough to require Google or enable people to see the value of its approach. As *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

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Matt Cutts On Hacked Site & Hand Editing Search Results

2010/07/26

Google’s Matt Cutts spoke at a SEO conference in Belgium named Search University II. He spoke for about twenty minutes about a lot of SEO topics. The specific topic he put more stress on was about hacked sites – which..

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AOL Launches Political Ad Platform, Seeks Top Music Ops Hire

2010/07/26

When AOL is in the news, it means business… CEO Tim Armstrong said advertising would be AOL’s primary source of revenues in his turnaround plan for the company. As such, AOL already demonstrated its willingness to leave non-viable operations behind by selling its failing and ailing social site Bebo for a reported $10 million

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Should Google AdSense Do Away With Pub IDs? Go Allowed Sites Only?

2010/07/26

A featured WebmasterWorld thread is titled “Shocked to See Many Sites Using My Adsense Code.” It is a common story, you have a popular site with Google AdSense ads on them. There are many people out there that copy your…

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Google Webmaster Tools Query Report Relates To AdWords Exact Match Tool

2010/07/26

One of the more typical questions you find in the Google Webmaster Help forums is why do not search query reports in Google Webmaster Tools look wrong. In one explanation from a Googler, he explains how the numbers actually work…

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AOL Keeping Google (And Bing) On Its Toes For Search Deal Pick

2010/07/26

AOL is currently gauging the offers of several companies to power its search as its $700 million-a-year deal with Google is set to expire in December.

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Google Revamps Dictionary Results

2010/07/26

Google announced they have redesigned and enhanced their dictionary results. Google said you no longer have to type define or what is prior to your search to trigger a dictionary

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Primal: Semantically Driven Keyword Research and Brainstorming Assistant

2010/07/26

Primal is a new interesting semantic search assistant that has drawn my attention due to keyword-research potential.

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How To Hide News Sources in Google News

2010/07/26

As many of you know, Google recently redesign Google News and yea, made several tweaks after the never ending user complaints.

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Why Guest Blogging Works Better Than Article Marketing

2010/07/26

A week ago, while I was perusing some marketing forums, I found a thread about the effectiveness of article marketing today.

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