Posts tagged: Google

SEO Ultimately Breaks down to – Google VS. Oprah

Derek’s Sandbox –  8
In continuation of my SEO Training at MorePro…
I’ve realized this week that there are two kinds of Authority in this world.
Oprah- and Google.

(Allen, August)                  (White, 2009)
These two authorities can make you or break you effortlessly.
If you have a website- Google probably owns you and you don’t even know it. This [...]

New SEO Client Site Indexing Issues – A Timeline of Improvement

Updated analysis as of 12/10/09
Having submitted the sitemap files on 12/3/09, we were hoping to see some changes reasonably quickly in the indexing.  Without much additional linking – only because it hasn’t started yet – the numbers do look improved after just 1 week.
Indexing Counts (Site saturation) 12/10/09

Google (258) +22
Yahoo (4) +2
Bing (23) +22

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Derek’s Sandbox Day 33

Derek’s Sandbox, day 33
-Hey! I still have a job at MorePro!-
As promised from last week we are moving into the “whys” of SEO marketing this week. But the major question I want to address this week is why Google, Yahoo and Bing are constantly changing their search algorithms.
Throughout my whole life I’ve found that I [...]

Google Webmaster Tools 404 Error Verification Problems Resolved

The folks over at Google Webmaster Tools have made some changes to the validation process which should help more sites validate their website.
Among the improvements, is the removal of a weird 404 error HTTP server response that prevented many sites from validating their website.  The issue was out of most site owners control and dependent [...]

Google, SEO and Staying Classy

There’s been some controversy in SEO land this week. Matt Cutts, Google’s mouthpiece for linking policies, stated publicly that websites heavily involved with paid links are considered high risk. Many of the SEO pros in the blogosphere took offense to this and feel that Google is profiling search engine optimized websites unfairly.
The issue of contention [...]

The Battle between Google, Myspace and Facebook

There is currently a fierce competition underway between Google, Facebook and Myspace for the best full-service social networking hub. Google, as always, is striving to dominate user services from email, chatting, blogging and now social networking. Facebook and Myspace have also been competing to become the point of origin for all user activities.
What this means [...]

Google Labs Has Potential Diamond in the Rough with Mobile Voice Search

Everyone knows that texting while driving is dangerous. New from Google Labs is a way to essentially type without taking your eyes off the road. Expected to roll out later today, this app, originally for the iPhone could eventually expand to other phones or mobile devices.This is not Google’s first crack at voice recognition software [...]

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