Archive for February, 2011

How To & When To Use Google Ad Extensions: Phone & Local Extensions

2011/02/25

Over the last year or so, Google has been steadily adding features to the AdWords interface that on the surface seem wonderful, unless managing and learning AdWords isn’t your full time job. It seems like just keeping up with what remains and what is gone and how to work the new stuff is a 40+ Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Google’s Farmer Update Live: 12% Of Google’s Results Forever Changed

2011/02/25

SEOs and webmasters have been eagerly anticipating, both in fear and excitement, the release of Google’s content farm algorithm. Google announced that is has been rolled out yesterday.

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World’s First Hotel Room Search Engine Launched

2011/02/25

We have seen recipe, real estate, books, prices, and job specific search engines, but never one specifically for hotel rooms. Yesterday, Room 77 unveiled a search engine that does just that.

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Interview With Hampus Jakobbson Part II: Plugging Into The Grid

2011/02/25

In part one of my interview with Hampus Jakobbson, TAT Co-Founder and now Strategic Alliances EMEA at Research in Motion, we talked about user experiences designed for Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants.

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Google’s Mobile Search Adds “Open Now” Filter

2011/02/25

When you’re on the move, there’s often no sense finding local businesses that are closed.

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The Fastest Ways to Share Anything on Twitter (FireFox and Google Chrome)

2011/02/25

Let’s face it, we tweet a lot. Most of us have a great habit of sharing any interesting article we come across. And I am sure you are already aware of quite a few browser tricks to quickly grab the page URL, add a comment and share on Twitter

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Searchfest Recap: My Favorite Takeaways

2011/02/25

On Wednesday, the 5th annual search marketing conference, Searchfest took place in my humble town of Portland Oregon. This is always a great conference with amazing speakers and really smart people asking really smart questions.

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Overstock.com’s Great Rankings Got Them Penalized In Google

2011/02/25

Another one bites the dust! Google Penalizes Overstock for Search Tactics from the Wall Street Journal reports on Google’s latest victim. Overstock.com is now penalized by Google for J.C. Penney and then Forbes and now Overstock

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Cyclic Redirects Causing SEO Issues

2011/02/25

There is an interesting Google Webmaster Help thread of an example of what is called a cyclic redirect. Basically…

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Google’s Safe Search Feature Gets Unlocked

2011/02/25

In November 2009, Google began allowing you to set your browser to a permanent (cookie specific) SafeSearch lock for your images search results. So if you never want adult related images to show up in Google Images…

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