Archive for September, 2010

Tangential Relevance and Link Building

2010/09/13

Tangential relevance is the idea of something being related to a topic in an indirect manner. I feel like Tony Robbins using that term, but it’s one that I’ve really come to love, as it’s an idea that can be very useful in searching for quality sites that are relevant to your niche, yet maybe not so relevant as to have been totally plundered by your competitors yet. You’ve probably read or heard the idea of starting at page 10 of the results of your search, and this is not so different.

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Link Building through Social Media Monitoring

2010/09/13

So much of our online marketing efforts overlap with one another.

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Google Offers Rel=Alternate Tag For Translated Templates

2010/09/13

A couple weeks back, I wrote a post named Google Says Using Google Translate Can Be Against Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. The post drove a lot of comments, because I kind of wrote things there to drive it

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Google Approves Anti-Google Ad Despite AdWords Trademark Issue

2010/09/13

Almost all Google AdWords advertisers know that bidding on some keywords are off limits. One of those keywords is [google] and typically you won’t see any ads for a search containing the word [google], unless the ad is from Google. However, recently Google has allowed an anti-Google ad to be shown

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Google vs. Bing 9/11 Remembrance & Other Logos

2010/09/13

If you visited Google or Bing on Saturday, 9/11, you would have seen a remembrance to 9/11. Google’s was very small and not all that noticeable but Bing’s was a complete theme

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Google Adds Alternate & Hreflang Attributes

2010/09/13

Google introduced new SEO specific attributes for handling multi-lingual pages and content. The new attributes are rel=”alternate” and hreflang=”x”. It looks something like this when used in the source code of your files: Google says it should be used when (1) template (i.e.

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How Social Media Sites Are Fighting Spam

2010/09/13

Social media spam can take various forms. About two (or a bit more) years ago I used to be a social media newbie myself and I remember doing what I would now call spam: I registered at social media networks to drop my own links.

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What Is Missing In Google Instant Search?

2010/09/13

Google Operating System has a nice post explaining the nine features now missing in Google since launching Google Instant. They include: Google Suggest always on, even if you opt out of Google Instant.

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What Is Missing In Google Instant Search?

2010/09/13

Google Operating System has a nice post explaining the nine features now missing in Google since launching Google Instant. They include: Google Suggest always on, even if you opt out of Google Instant

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What Is Missing In Google Instant Search?

2010/09/13

Google Operating System has a nice post explaining the nine features now missing in Google since launching Google Instant. They include: Google Suggest always on, even if you opt out of Google Instant

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