Category Archives: Search Engines

Is Screening the Answer to Censorship Internationally?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by admin

Censorship is not a new topic; it has been around in many forms for a long, long time and it looks like it is not going anywhere any time soon. Now it seems more than ever before in the (relatively) short history of the internet has there been so much … Continue reading →

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Search Engine Market Share Report, December 2011

Posted on January 9, 2012 by admin

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Google’s Sponsor Review Campaign Shocks the SEO World

Posted on January 9, 2012 by admin

David Angotti wrote a great post on this on Jan 4th detailing that Google paid bloggers to post reviews; it’s a great post that describes the situation in detail. This news shocked my world a little bit and we had some clients raise some concerns. As… Continue reading →

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Google Announces Panda Updates Will Resume “Next Year”

Posted on December 19, 2011 by admin

Google announced via Twitter that Panda Updates have ceased for 2011 and will resume after the New Year.  Perhaps this is an early Holiday gift to webmasters that need to cultivate content and links on their existing webpages.  The last update came i… Continue reading →

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SEO Video: 45 Minutes of Q&A with Matt Cutts

Posted on December 16, 2011 by admin

It is the weekend and that means you might have 45 minutes to be entertained and get great tips from the fabulous Matt Cutts. This video is a recording of a live Q&A on September 21, 2011. If you haven’t seen it you may want to sit back, rela… Continue reading →

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Google’s Autocomplete On-Deck and What It Means for Online Reputation Management (ORM)

Posted on December 15, 2011 by admin

With the rise of Google and the power of Search, online reputation management (ORM) has become an extremely hot topic.  Let’s face it, after hearing about a person, brand, company, or product, most people Google it.  As a result, and as many of you… Continue reading →

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What is the importance of the new personalization quiz in Google Offers for marketers?

Posted on December 15, 2011 by admin

Google Offers, the new offering being molded to compete with the likes of Groupon, is expanding and in the process, hoping to make an impact in the increasingly crowded deal space. Google recently started presenting deals from 14 new partners, includin… Continue reading →

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How Does Google Use Quality Raters?

Posted on December 8, 2011 by admin

There’s been a lot of fearmongering talk lately about Google’s human quality raters and just exactly what they’re used for and how their ratings are used internally at Google. Discussion was running rampant at Pubcon where I witnessed… Continue reading →

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Will Google Be Around in 2 Years?

Posted on December 8, 2011 by admin

My search marketing career started in 2003, back when the keyword meta tag rained superior and search engine submissions still counted for something. Back in 2003 if someone asked me if Google would be around in two years I would have laughed. Fast for… Continue reading →

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Google to Charge for Maps — Fear Not, There are Alternatives

Posted on November 10, 2011 by admin

As geo-location and real-time mapping begin to play a larger role in online advertising, a distant fear looms on the horizon. For quite some time, publishers have been granted the benefit of supposed “free” products such as Bing Maps or Google Analytics, with little thought to the real cost of these services. However, all of […]

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