In an effort to improve local search and its Places pages , Google announced a project six months ago , in which it would supply interested business around the United States, Australia, and Japan with photographers that would take high-quality photographs of their businesses.

In an effort to improve local search and its Places pages , Google announced a project six months ago , in which it would supply interested business around the United States, Australia, and Japan with photographers that would take high-quality photographs of their businesses. Since that time business in over 30 cities have participated and today Google announced their plan for these photographs . Users that search for any of the participating establishments will be able to view these pictures

Google’s effort to bring photographers to local businesses to capture interior and exterior images now bearing fruit. The company announced that the images that its contractors have been collecting (all over the world) are now online: Starting today, the images we’ve taken as part of the pilot can be viewed on the Place pages of participating *** Read the full post by clicking on the headline above ***

Linkbait is one of the crucial types of Internet marketing. Linkbait takes some time to create, but the results can be both viral and effective. However, with all types of Internet marketing methods, publishers must be willing to spend a significant amount researching, prepping, formatting, and creating linkbait that is going to be strong enough to attract the attention of the masses.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a very revealing, at least to me, post from a Googler about how the Google Algorithm works. Many people feel the Google Algorithm is a single, but large algorithm

Ever since Google bought FeedBurner I, and many others, have felt FeedBurner, as a service, has been slowly dying. Google proved us wrong yesterday when they announced a new beta version of the FeedBurner dashboard

A WebmasterWorld thread has several complaints about Google’s search quality. Tedster sets the tone with his post: In our Google Updates and SERP Changes thread, scottsonline made this observation: “Day to day I won’t find the same results in google..

In mid-September news broke that Google was in talks to purchase ITA Software Inc, which is the leader in flight data information, for $700 million and it has made a lot of people very unhappy . A group of very popular online travel companies have formed a coalition called FairSearch.org and planning on taking their cause to Capitol Hill and the members of Congress to demonstrate how unfair they feel this deal will be to them and their businesses. Companies like Kayak.com, Expedia Inc., Farelogix Inc.

We’re roughly a week away from Halloween and I still can’t decide what I’m gonna be!  First I thought about dressing myself up as a homeless person referring to myself as a “link beggar”.  My second idea was to alternate between wearing a white hat and black hat all day depending on my mood…yup, not the most creative, I know.  Anyways, that’s not the point of this post.  What I want to discuss is link acquisition and whether or not link builders are manipulating webmasters. I’ll let you all in on a secret a little crow once tweeted in my ear.  “Obtaining authoritative links is the key to top search engine rankings.” Ok, now in all seriousness every SEO knows this and obtaining these links is like convincing a vampire to take a big bite out of a clove of garlic.  Each and every day we find new reasons to convince other people that it’s a good idea to link to specific pages within our website.  Techniques such as unique content, badges, brewing up controversy, personalized e-mails and infographics are pretty commonly used to obtain links.  The question is “ are SEO’s manipulating webmasters?” Let’s further break this down into two separate thoughts. Getting The Biggest Bang From Your

We’re roughly a week away from Halloween and I still can’t decide what I’m gonna be!  First I thought about dressing myself up as a homeless person referring to myself as a “link beggar”.  My second idea was to alternate between wearing a white hat and black hat all day depending on my mood…yup, not the most creative, I know.  Anyways, that’s not the point of this post.  What I want to discuss is link acquisition and whether or not link builders are manipulating webmasters. I’ll let you all in on a secret a little crow once tweeted in my ear.  “Obtaining authoritative links is the key to top search engine rankings.” Ok, now in all seriousness every SEO knows this and obtaining these links is like convincing a vampire to take a big bite out of a clove of garlic.  Each and every day we find new reasons to convince other people that it’s a good idea to link to specific pages within our website.  Techniques such as unique content, badges, brewing up controversy, personalized e-mails and infographics are pretty commonly used to obtain links.  The question is “ are SEO’s manipulating webmasters?” Let’s further break this down into two separate thoughts.