Archive for September, 2010

How Getting Overly Obsessed with Search Engine Optimization Can Kill Your Online Business 

2010/09/01

How’s that for an advice coming from a guy who eats, sleeps and breathes Search Engine Optimization? If the truth be told, I should be aiming to convince people that SEO is the holy grail of internet success rather than repelling them. Just to make it clear, I am in full senses and not in a mood to shoot myself in the foot

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Google Search Now Indexes & Crawls SVG Files

2010/09/01

The Google Webmaster Help blog announced they are now indexing SVG files and documents. SVG is a royalty-free graphics format typically used on the web for fancy font usage.

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Day 1 at the SEOmoz Training Raceway

2010/09/01

Posted by Dana Lookadoo This post was originally in YOUmoz , and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. I’m going to speed through the 2nd half of the 1st day at the SEOmoz Pro Training Race Track

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Google Cache Broken For Home Pages

2010/09/01

There is a weird Google bug with the cache feature. It seems to only impact home pages

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Experian Hitwise Has Launched Two Major Search Products

2010/09/01

At some point during the crush of Connected Marketing Week , Experian Hitwise announced the launch of two new premium Search Intelligence products that can improve your search marketing performance.

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Taking Over a Business With Bad Google Maps Reviews?

2010/09/01

A Google Places Help thread has a story of a person who bought a business from someone else. The issue is, that business has pretty bad reviews in Google Maps and since there will be new management, he wants to…

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The Real Cost of Buying Links for SEO: -$4 Million

2010/09/01

I was reading a copy of the Inc 500 issue on my flight back from Dallas this weekend and came across an article about a seasonal online retailer that was “penalized” right before the Holidays for paid links and estimated the loss of organic search visibility at $4 million in sales.  Now he’s “thanking” Google for the spanking because he’s mended his ways and is reborn as a social media enthusiast.

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Gmail Priority Inbox: Google Applies Algorithm to Email

2010/09/01

Following their new computer to phone calling service Google have launched a new beta feature for Gmail users, called priority inbox. It ranks your email according to what you read.

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