Archive for September, 2011

Update Your Google Product Feeds By September 22nd

2011/09/05

Google has posted a reminder that the updates to the Google Product search feeds is just around the corner. If you do not update your product feeds with the new guidelines by September 22nd, Google may suspend your account

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Google Now Showing Three-Line Ad Sitelinks

2011/09/05

We’ve seen reports and are also seeing some AdWords ads displaying with three lines of sitelinks, and Google has updated its help documents to indicate that “up to six” and “three-line” Ad Sitelinks are now being displayed.

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Google Customer Support Surprise: Phone Reps Handling 10,000 Calls A Week From 60 Countries

2011/09/05

Google has long received mixed-to-negative criticism for its customer service — or lack thereof. But Francoise Brougher is changing all that. Perhaps the least well-known senior executive outside Google, the VP of Global Advertising and Product Operations has quietly built an impressive..

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Labor Day & Freddie Mercury (Queen) Logo On Google

2011/09/05

Today is Labor Day in the U.S. and it is also Freddie Mercury’s birthday. Freddie Mercury is well known as the lead signer of Queen.

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Google Celebrates Freddie Mercury’s 65th Birthday With Google Logo

2011/09/05

Today on most Google properties you will see a special logo, video logo, for Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday. Freddie Mercury is most well known as the lead vocalist for the popular band, Queen. He was born today in 1946 and died from bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS on November 24, 1991…

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Tools to Create Perfect Blog Post Graphics (Without All the Work)

2011/09/05

Over a year ago, I wrote a post on blog post graphic resources , with most of my focus set on image generators. Since then, several new tools have been introduced that make it even easier for bloggers to create custom images to enhance their posts. Why Make Your Own Graphics?

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Using Google +1 For Rankings & Profit

2011/09/05

Since the launch of Google’s +1 feature, search engine optimizers (SEOs), business owners, and spammers have all circled around the +1. Services have launched selling them, rumors and whitepapers have scattered across the web “proving”…

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Free Tools to Audit Your PPC Campaigns

2011/09/05

There are a lot of great tools for performing SEO audits , and some good posts on the topic of performing PPC audits “by hand”, but there seem to be far fewer similar tools for paid search campaigns. In this post I’ll introduce you to a pair of tool sets that can help you get a quick idea of problem areas in a pay-per click campaign. I’ll also offer a brief cautionary note on over-reliance on PPC auditing tools.

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Link Building: How to Set Goals & Gauge Your Competition

2011/09/05

Anyone who’s done any SEO at all will know that links are vitally important for ranking and indexation, and have been since Google jumped into the scene all those years ago.

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