Archive for February, 2012

Removing A Sitemap File Likely Won’t Hurt Your Rankings

2012/02/17

A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who is interested in just removing their XML sitemap completely from Webmaster tools.

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Dilbert: Hiring A Weasel To Do SEO & Corrupt The Industry

2012/02/17

The Dilbert cartoon above doesn’t speak well of the search engine optimization position. The cartoon ties people who do SEO as weasels and those that hire SEOs as an accomplice, someone who actively participates in the commission of a crime. It goes on to say the SEO will go ahead and..

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How to Become a Panda’s Best Friend

2012/02/17

With the launch of Panda, SEOs are more nervous than ever when it comes to their site’s survival in the search results. The mood has become more and more tense with many publishers scrambling to “fix” their pages in hopes of redemption. People are reading horror stories of seemingly innocent websites being affected by Panda.

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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: February 17, 2012

2012/02/17

It was a fairly slow week in search news but we do have some topics I wanted to highlight. I asked can sites that are not socially active with Google+…

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Stats on Facebook 2012 [Infographic]

2012/02/17

The folks at Infographic Labs have made an extremely informative infographic full of Facebook stats.

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Preview Live Search Engine Results Pages With The LiveSerp Toolbar

2012/02/17

Every search practitioner, either paid and organic, has at some point received the same questioning phone call or email from their client or boss:  “I’m was searching on Google for our natural listing (or paid ad) and I don’t see it.” Most of the time, this is due to the search engines… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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SOPA Version 2: JotForm Domain Seized Without Due Process

2012/02/17

On Wednesday, the Secret Service seized the JotForm.com domain and left hundreds of thousands of websites with “broken” forms. Although it was the Secret Service that initiated the investigation, it was Go Daddy (JotForm’s domain registrar) that suspended the domain without warning

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Spreading SEO Awareness & Knowledge

2012/02/17

Taking that first step to genuine SEO awareness can be difficult for SEO professionals as well as information architects and usability professionals.

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Search In Pics: Android Skiing, Fake Google Shops, Google Kippah & Lego Googlers

2012/02/17

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Android Skiing: Source: Google+ Fake Google Shop: Source: ffffound.com…

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Cookiegate Another Privacy Black Eye For Google

2012/02/17

Call it “Cookiegate” — or “Safarigate” perhaps. Late last night we got the Wall Street Journal’s piece: “Google’s iPhone Tracking: Web Giant, Others Bypassed Apple Browser Settings for Guarding Privacy.” Danny covered the article and its claims…

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