Archive for October, 2009:
Google’s Place Pages: What Are They?
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Yeah, I know I’ve written a lot about Google the last few weeks. I didn’t really set out to do that, but they just keep releasing so much stuff! And they are the big dog so I think it’s important to keep track of them. Today’s piece is about a new feature available within Google [...]
What is Google Wave?
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Google Wave is a new initiative announced by Google last May. Google describes Wave as “Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.” Wave has not yet [...]
Google Video Channels: Tips for Efficient Web Searching
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Google has developed its own video channels to provide information about its services and how they work. The main channel is called The Google Channel (www.youtube.com/user/Google). There is also a channel for Webmasters.
Can Images be Optimized for Search Engines?
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In the never ending quest for greater website optimization one may wonder whether or not images may be optimized. Obviously, the physical image itself, e.g. mycat.jpg, consists of a blob of digital pixels that cannot be analyzed by the search engines’ indexing software. So, how can images be optimized?
Backlinks: Does Quality Count?
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The Google Webmaster Blog recently released a post talking about “low-quality backlinks.” I thought I would share some of the information from that article and talk about backlinks in general and the role they play in search engine optimization. First of all, what is a backlink?
Google Continues to Dominate Search Engine Marketshare
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Industry research site comScore (www.comscore.com) recently released its monthly analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. The figures show that Google continues to dominate the market with 64.5% of searches done in the August to September, 2009 period being done on Google.
SEO Tip: Maximizing Your Use of LinkedIn
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LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site launched in May, 2003 and mainly used for professional networking. As of October 2009, it had more than 50 million registered users across more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
We advise our SEO client’s to include a LinkedIn account as part of their SEO Social Networking strategy. I [...]
