Business owners in Portland, Oregon, can now sign up for Google Offers Beta. Google is promising businesses on the Offers website that the Groupon-style program, which went live last week , will help bring in new customers, with Google handling all the marketing to users who have subscribed to receive offers to buy a deal worth at least 50 percent off.

Users of Google Docs have been no strangers to positive change over the course of the last two years. Google Docs has added a number of great new features, including additional language support, an improved interface, easier sharing options, real-time updates on collaborator changes, and (most recently) pagination

Google is about to launch a premium video on demand service through YouTube that will directly challenge iTunes, Netflix, Hulu and even cable TV. In the past YouTube tested video rentals (and has continued to do so) but the titles were limited and the results have been muted

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster complaining his site isn’t ranking well anymore in Google. When Googler, JohnMu, checked out his site…

Google has lifted a manual punishment on discount site Overstock.com, which in February was penalized for offering discounts to students and faculty in exchange for links on coveted .edu sites.

Local Search Rank Checker is a nice web-based tool that lets you check and track your local search engine positions efficiently. Here’s a quick overview of its features (you can run your own test drive and share your opinion: this doesn’t require any registration or payment) Track Your Local

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This article is really part three of our Link Building Foundational Blueprint series, and will focus on using content to attract links. Here are parts one and two. There are many ways to generate links using content, you’re probably familiar with article writing, guest blogging, link bait,…

In the past month, Google’s +1 has been the most hyped Social feature that Google has launched to date, as it has the potential to compete with Twitter and Facebook. A less noticed launch during this same time included social changes to Google’s Latitude product, which have also been..

Google says it flat out in their SEO Webmaster Guidelines , “Be wary of SEO firms and web consultants or agencies that send you email out of the blue.” There are plenty of disreputable and black hat SEO practitioners that are scrounging for clients.