Posted by Danny Dover

How well do you know your neighbours There is a concept that folks don’t really seem to talk about as much as they once did and I think it is time we did. And that is; TrustRank

Google Voice launched a ‘call phones’ feature this month that works within your Gmail account. Not much to say about it, except that it could make Google Apps for Business an even more attractive proposition, as they are offering international call rates (computer to phone) starting at 2 cents a minute to Japan, Britain, Germany and France.

Earlier today it was reported that Yelp’s content had been removed from Google Places — though not from Google.com results. What’s going on exactly? Here’s Google’s  public statement about it: “Place pages organize relevant information about a wide range of places and locations, and they surface great sources of information like reviews *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Google Realtime Search service has finally gained its own home page, as well as some new tools including “conversations view,” Google Alerts for real time content and the ability to see tweets filtered by geography.

Blekko is a stealth search engine which aims to change the search game by being fairly transparent with ranking data. Since they will start out with limited search marketshare, they aren’t risking much in sharing data that other search engines have traditionally been rather secretive about.

One of the most important factors in one’s ranking on Google is your volume of citations (i.e. mentions of your business name and address, not just links to your site.) The challenge lies not in obtaining hundreds of citations from any site, but by getting the right citations from the right places

I love it, Google keeps tweaking their re-design to make it more similar to the look prior to the redesign. Why? Their users keep complaining and asking for the old design and Google made one tweak a month or so..

I am sure everyone by now knows the news that Google Voice is coming to Gmail.

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion on the basic topic of using absolute URLs versus relative URLs.