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August 2011

Google’s New Extended Sitelinks

Coveted by Webmasters the world over, Google’s Sitelinks have recently gotten a lot of attention. With the new, extended sitelinks, search engine results pages offer almost a full scroll to sitelinks. This has left SEO-ers and webmasters scrambling to find out how to get sitelinks on their site.

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August 2011

Google +1 Button SEO Data

On March 3th, Google launched “+1” as a way to challenge Facebook’s Cross-web “Like” button and how Bing has chosen to use Facebook “Likes” in their search results. The idea is pretty simple. Content recommended by friends and acquaintance is likely more relevant than content from strangers. For example, a Transformers movie review from an …

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July 2011

Selling Google +1 SEO Spam Already?!

Even before Google+ really kicks off, spammy sites are already looking to manipulate whatever influence +1’s have on a site’s rankings by selling them by the hundreds. Can the system be gamed so easily?

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July 2011

Google Analytics Benchmark Results

Based on anonymous data sharing gathered from Google Analytics users all over the world, Google has just released benchmark results to Google Analytics users via an opt-in only eNewsletter. Absolute metrics such as total # visits, pageviews, or conversions for all opted-in websites are NOT reported. The benchmark report includes the following data. Review, share, …

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March 2011

W3C Validation Nuances

Is there an argument to be bade against W3C valid markup? Some insist perfectly valid markup is a requirement. We’re not sure that’s true.

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January 2011

Google PageRank Update – Does it Matter?

Google has just announced an update to the PageRank values of many sites within the Google Toolbar. This is the first significant toolbar PageRank update since April of 2010.

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December 2010

Social Media to Sales Lead

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you’ve certainly heard about “Google Instant.” What you may not know about is Google’s “Realtime,” a new(er) feature that can turn all that brain-bleeding online chatter into useful marketing data that, for the savvy marketer, can translate into uber-relevant sales opportunities. For the …

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August 2010

Hidden SEO Gold

As Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik explained in an interview for Search Engine Strategies 2010 Expo, most people only look at the first 10-20 results that their analytics tool provides. However, this is only the beginning of what the data can show.

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February 2010

Real Simple Syndication (RSS) Simplified

Simply put, RSS is a standardized, un-styled web page format used to publish frequently updated web content—such as blogs, news, job postings, etc. These standardized web pages (or ‘Feeds’) can be displayed (sometimes referred to as ‘consumed’) in RSS readers (like a web browser) or “aggregators” like Outlook or Feedburner. Here’s the point of RSS …

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July 2008

Shame on Google’s “Aging Delay”

Lawrence Deon in a post on “Web Marketing Now”, wrote about the length of time it takes Google to calculate and attribute a higher page rank to a much deserving website. Originally, it was to eliminate “link farms” and other unfair SEO behavior, but they’ve gone too far!

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