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• Switch to the new version of AdSense for search
  Over the last two years, the AdSense team has offered the powerful Google Custom Search Engine (CSE)…
• AdSense: Behind the Scenes - Meet Evanne
  In the last video of this series, Evanne, a member of the Partner Development team, talks about her…
• Watch our latest webinar recordings
  Over the last few months, we held a number of webinars to help you further optimize your site:Optimi…
• AdSense: Behind the Scenes - Meet Alton
  In the next part of our video series, Alton, our Optimization specialist, shares with us his experie…
• Announcing the AdSense in Your City program
  This summer and fall, the AdSense team is coming to visit you! In an effort to work more closely wit…
• We’d love to hear your feedback
  Your opinion matters to us! So we’ve put together a short survey so you can tell us how we're doin…
• AdSense: Behind the scenes - Meet Alejo
  Continuing our Behind the Scenes video series is Alejo, our AdSense for video and AdSense for games…
• AdSense Facts & Fiction Part IV: Program policies
  Fiction: AdSense disables accounts and issues warnings at random.Fact: We rely upon a detailed set o…
• AdSense: Behind the scenes - Meet Debby
  Do you ever wonder who’s helping you optimize your webpages? Who works hard to ensure your payment…
• An update on the AdSense Product Ideas page
  A few months ago, we created a Product Ideas page for AdSense, where you could tell us what product…

• AdSense Facts & Fiction Part III: The stats pipeline
  Fiction: Site maintenance periods and delays in my AdSense reports mean that data isn’t being reco…
• Keep current on all things advertising
  The rapid pace of change in the advertising space can be dizzying. From new ad formats to new ad sys…
• Introducing the Google Display Network
  We’re always focused on improving AdSense by bringing more advertisers to your sites, giving you m…
• AdSense Facts & Fiction Part II: Electronic Funds Transfer
  Fiction: Google doesn’t support Electronic Funds Transfer in my country because they don’t like…
• AdSense Facts & Fiction Part I: Placement targeting
  Fiction: Targetable placements are difficult to set up and don’t do anything for my siteFact: It o…
• Join us for a top tech tips webinar this week
  This Wednesday, May 26th at 5pm GMT, we’re hosting a live webinar to share some top tech tips with…
• The AdSense revenue share
  Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue sh…
• Category filtering available in 13 languages
  If you're an international publisher who's been waiting for category filtering, we're happy to let y…
• Two new ways to optimize AdSense on your website
  Publishers frequently ask for new ways to increase the relevancy of the AdSense ads shown on their s…
• Join us for an AdSense for search webinar this week
  We’re hosting a live webinar to share our tops tips on optimizing AdSense for search on Wednesday…
• Live AdSense webinars available in six languages
  The AdSense team is hosting a new series of live online webinars this summer. These webinars will fo…
• Site maintenance on Saturday, May 8
  This Saturday, our engineers will be performing routine site maintenance from 10am to 2pm PDT. You'l…
• Additional publisher resources: Using Webmaster Tools
  In the second part of our ‘Additional Publisher Resources’ video series, Deborah Chang will expl…
• Additional publisher resources: Navigating DoubleClick Ad Planner
  In an effort to help our publishers navigate the array of Google products, we’re happy to announce…
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• Summer Excuses?
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• A Shout Out About Annotations
  A few months ago at the Google I/O conference, we were approached by Zach Steindler, a co-founder at…
• Will Using Google Analytics Have A Negative Effect On My Ranking?
  Good news from the horse’s mouth. We don’t mean to call Matt Cutts a horse, but, well, if you kn…
• Using The Wrong Tracking Code Can Cost You $500k a Year
  This is a guest post from Tom Critchlow who is an excel ninja, data geek, analytics nerd and head of…
• Analytics Intelligence Tips: Custom Alerts
  Last week, we shared a video on how to get the most out of your automatic alerts. Now that you’re…
• Analytics Intelligence Tips: Automatic Alerts
  When was the last time you checked the bounce rate for visits from Hong Kong? You may never have nee…
• Campaign Data Issue Being Corrected
  Late last week, we made a change that caused some visits and campaign data to be processed incorrect…
• Web Analytics TV #10 with Avinash and Nick
  It’s the 10th Anniversary of Web Analytics TV! Happy Birthday to us!In this exciting series, with…
• Like Web Analytics? Check Out The Beyond Web Analytics Podcast
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• Advanced: E-Commerce Roll Up Reporting For Websites With Different Languages
  If you're a business owner of any size, you've at some point considered expanding. And as the web ma…

• New Edition Of A Great Book
  A few years ago, Brian Clifton was working at Google in London, leading our team in Europe. Since th…
• Use Case: Twiddy & Company
  We’re excited to hear from users that are able to attribute some incredible growth to Google Analy…
• The Power of Multiple Custom Variables, part 2
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• The Power of Multiple Custom Variables
  This is the first part of a two part deep dive guest post about using Multiple Custom Variables writ…
• Building A Business With The API
  Do you like web analytics data? Do you like number crunching in Excel? Get ready to drool once you c…
• Working with AdWords Conversion Products
  Hot on the heels of the launch of the new and improved AdWords reports in Google Analytics, we wante…
• A Segmentable Funnel
  Ready for a fun workaround that you can use in Google Analytics if you like? We enjoyed this contrib…
• The New AdWords Reports in Google Analytics
  Last month, we made a number of announcements around the Google Analytics ecosystem. Along with laun…
• School’s out, but the learning never stops
  Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer Seminars for Success are a great way to get in-depth,…
• New Google Analytics Book Released
  A new book by a stellar team is now available for you to take your usage of Google Analytics to the…
• Web Analytics TV #9 with Avinash and Nick
  This is the 9th exciting episode of Web Analytics TV with Avinash Kaushik and Nick Mihailovski, wher…
• Greater choice and transparency for Google Analytics
  Many website owners use Google Analytics and other web analytics tools to make business-critical dec…
• It’s now easy to set up new sites with Asynchronous Tracking
  We’re happy to announce that the asynchronous tracking tag, which came out of beta last week, is n…
• Videos From Master Class In Singapore Now Online
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  Webmaster Level: AllWhen Googlebot crawls your site, it’s expected that most URLs will return a 20…
• Video Sitemaps 101: Making your videos searchable
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• Sitemaps: One file, many content types
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• Quality links to your site
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• Google Videos best practices
  Webmaster Level: AllWe'd like to highlight three best practices that address some of the most common…
• Our new search index: Caffeine
  (Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog)Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexi…
• Crawl Errors now reports soft 404s
  Webmaster Level: AllToday we’re releasing a feature to help you discover if your site serves undes…
• Grab bag videos are back!
  We’re kicking off June with the start of a new round of webmaster Q&A on the Webmaster Central You…
• Chrome Extensions for web development
  Webmaster Level: All The Chrome Developer Tools are great for debugging HTML, JavaScript and CSS in…
• Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars
  Webmaster Level: AllSince we released the latest version of Top Search Queries in Webmaster Tools we…

• Call for webspam reports in Thai, Indonesian, Romanian, Czech and Farsi
  Webmaster Level: AllUpdate on May 19, 2010: We have several translated versions of this post! If you…
• Do know evil
  (Cross-posted on the Google Online Security Blog)UPDATE July 13: We have changed the name of the cod…
• URL removal explained, Part IV: Tracking your requests & what not to remove
  Webmaster Level: AllIn this final installation in our URL removal series, let's talk about following…
• You and site performance, sitting in a tree...
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• Rich snippets go international
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• To slash or not to slash
  Webmaster Level: IntermediateThat is the question we hear often. Onward to the answers! Historically…
• URL removal explained, Part III: Removing content that you don't own
  Webmaster Level: AllWelcome to the third episode of our URL removals series! In episodes one and two…
• Help Google index your videos
  Webmaster Level: AllThe single best way to make Google aware of all your videos on your website is t…
• Updated malware feature in Webmaster Tools
  Webmaster Level: AllA little over six months ago we released a new malware diagnostic tool in Webmas…
• Webmasters - configure Google services at your hosting panel
  Webmaster Level: AllToday, as announced on the Official Google Blog, we’ve taken an additional ste…
• More data and charts in Top Search Queries
  Webmaster Level: AllWe've got good news for site owners who are frequent users of the Top search que…
• Better recipes on the web: Introducing recipe rich snippets
  Webmaster Level: AllAnticipating the start of the season of barbecues and potlucks, we’ve added re…
• Using site speed in web search ranking
  Webmaster Level: AllYou may have heard that here at Google we're obsessed with speed, in our product…
• When and why was my site flagged for malware? Learn in near real-time!
  Webmaster Level: AllWe’ve been hearing this question for many years from webmasters. That’s why…
• Adding Images to your Sitemaps
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• Maybe This Company Can Predict How Google Me Will Fare
  Interesting investment by Google Ventures in a company called Recorded Future, a wonderful play on v…
• Signal Update
  Every day I spend an hour or two curating a set of links that I find provocative, useful, or importa…
• CM Summit Sizzle Reel
  I'm proud of the team that put the CM Summit together, and this reel. Well done folks!...
• This Week In Signal
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• What Means This, To "Go Google"!?
  I thought it meant to search! Apparently, in this context, it means to drop Microsoft Office and use…
• What Would You Ask Fred Wilson?
  Tomorrow I will be at the Geo Loco conference in SF, interviewing Fred Wilson, partner at Union Squa…
• The Facebook App Economy: Revival Time?
  Who remembers the utter gold rush that was the Facebook Platform back in 2007, back when everyone, a…
• On Math, iPhones, Android, and the 100K Phone Gap
  The media really, really, really loves to write about Apple and the iPhone these days. It reminds me…
• We Are Capable of Many States
  In this overwraught essay, a novelist yearns for a time before addiction to technology slowly draine…
• Search, Foursquare, and Checking Into States of Mind
  I've written before about my relationship with Foursquare, and I'm sure I will again. I've tweeted m…

• Recent Signals
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• On Facebook, Google, and Our Evolving Social Mores Online
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• Is Yahoo Dead? I Don't Think So. Who Else With This Scale Can Be Neutral?
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• Last Few Signals...
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• Will Google Compete With Facebook? Er...It Already Is, Folks.
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• Google And Yelp Express “Complicated” Relationship In Conference Interview
  There’s nothing that jaded and weary conference goers love more than to see some “red meat” co…
• Twitter Helps You Find New People To Follow
  Twitter is launching a new tool called “Suggestions for You” in the hopes of making it easier fo…
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 30, 2010
  Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places acro…
• Study Calls Google ‘King Of Malware’
  Google has twice as much malware in its search results as Yahoo, Bing, and Twitter combined. That’…
• MSFT Will Challenge Google-Yahoo Japan Deal
  In a move that should surprise no one, Microsoft says it will try to block the recently announced Go…
• SMN Webcast Aug 3 – New research on consumer retail buying
  Search Marketing Now hosts a free webcast on Tuesday that will include results from a new comScore r…
• Google Advertising Google Image Ads With Image Ad
  As we know with the new Google Image redesign that Google would be pushing image ad formats for imag…
• Google Places API Offers Local Data To ‘Check-in’ Developers
  Google previously announced (at its I/O developer conference) the creation of a Places API as part o…
• When Good SEO Becomes Bad Information Architecture
  Have you ever heard the phrase search engine optimization (SEO) architecture? At first glance, it mi…
• SPONSOR MESSAGE: Get More Traffic and Sales with VeriSign Trust™ Seal
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• Whiteboard Friday - Outsourcing Content Creation
  Posted by Danny Dover This week on Whiteboard Friday, Rand Fishkin describes the methods he recomme…
• 7 Cutting Edge Web Design Trends (that Can Actually Improve SEO)
  Posted by randfishAs the worlds of web design and SEO merge ever closer, we've been seeing design-sp…
• How to Benchmark in Analytics
  Posted by JoannaLordWe have a lot of changes going on at SEOmoz (feel free to get excited, we sure a…
• SEO Chrome Toolbar is Here! Download the Mozbar for Chrome Today
  Posted by Danny Dover Well folks, this may be the biggest tool introduction since Ryan Seacrest star…
• The 12-Step Landing Page Rehab Program [Infographic]
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• Create a Link Building Team Within Your Organization
  Posted by RobOusbeyAt a small or medium sized company, you might be part of a very small team with r…
• It's Gonna Be Good: August PRO Training Seminar Finalized
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• Whiteboard Friday - How to Get an SEO Job
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• Working with Navigation in SEO [SEO Fundamentals]
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• Demand Media's eHow.com Using Interesting Expired Domain Redirect SEO Strategy
  Perhaps part of the interesting data Richard Rosenblatt was talking about was link anchor text on ex…
• Portrait of an SEO
  The following is a guest post by Kpaul. :) A long time ago, on an Internet far, far away (when I wro…
• Yahoo! Tests Microsoft Search Results
  Straight from the horse's mouth: We’ve started testing organic (also referred to as algorithmic) a…
• Blekko Cozy Up to Webmasters, Offers Killer SEO Data Free
  Both Yahoo! and Microsoft have confirmed that they will start testing the Bing algorithm live on som…
• What Creates Digital Ghettos?
  Open source software is awesome, and I am much richer for it existing. But the concepts that work in…
• Multi-Level Marketing BS
  Excellent Penn & Teller program on multi-level marketing. BTW, NSFW. Those who are easily offended,…
• Google's Brand Debacle Backfires
  As Google reached the limits of returns in direct marketing they started pushing the value of brandi…
• Content Farming - SEOs Get It, Journalists Don't
  Recently, there have been a series of negative articles about content farms. Content farms, such as…
• Google As Publisher...
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• I Like it, I Love it, I Want Some More of It
  In information retrieval some words are powerful / potent. They are really descriptive and get right…

• Excessive Worry About Competition
  Excessive Worrying = Missed Opportunities Do you worry too much about who you are competing against?…
• Free Data
  The other day a person contacted me about wanting to help me with ad retargeting on one of my sites,…
• How Does Google Work?
  This image might need updated in the years to come, but it does a great job laying out how Google wo…
• The Inside Line On SEO
  There are so many blogs on search marketing. Then there are so many forums. And Tweets. So much SEO…
• Building a Business by Focusing on Angry Overly Important Individuals?
  I just read a WSJ article about how some hotel chains are trying to woo people leaving negative rema…
• An Interview with Johns Wu
  Internet success stories rarely get any sexier than the story of Johns Wu.  In 2006, while still an…
• SEO Competitive Intelligence Strategy
  It's bad enough having to compete with Google's engineers. But to win the search game, you need to…
• How To Combine Brand & SEO
  In 2008, Eric Schmidt let slip that Google would use brands as a signal to clean up the internet ce…
• BlueGlass LA
  I spoke to Loren from Search Engine Journal today and he mentioned a conference he is helping put to…
• Google Maps Devours Second Click
  In the past when I claimed that the Google Maps insertion in organic search results wasn't more orga…
• New Google AdWords Training Course
  Back when I got into SEO part of the reason I wasn't too into PPC back then was because I had limite…
• Bulk Register.com & eNom Customers: Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt Reveals Hidden Cost
  The third reason we really like [eNom] is because the data, right. Almost 10% of the entire web hit…
• Keyword List Comparison Tool
  This video is a review of one of our online SEO tools - the keyword list comparison tool, which mak…
• LiveStrong OR SpamStrong? You Decide!
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• TV is the New Mobile
  When Google enters a field sometimes they do so quietly, but when they decide they want to own somet…
• The Hidden Risk of Trusting Link Building Networks
  Yesterday someone emailed me this quote People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you…
• Google Still Busy Killing Off the Link Graph, One Link at a Time
  Now that big media practices keyword stuffing, engage in link selling, are invested in SEO start ups…
• Recent Interviews
  I was recently talking to my buddy Chris from Warlock Media, and he mentioned a blog post where he w…
• Strategizer Review, Wordtracker's New Tool
  Wordtracker continues to add value beyond their position as a well-respected keyword research tool p…
• Wordstream PPC and SEO Tool Review
  Wordstream Review Wordstream is a suite of online marketing tools which cover Keyword Research and M…

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• #1 Guest Blogging Incentive: Backlinks (Guidelines and Ethics)
  Accepting guest posts is an effective way to freshen up your blog, share various perspectives and bu…
• Is Google AdWords Advertising Itself Honestly?
  I’ve been working on PPC for my dad’s dental seminars business, and I have to admit that while I…
• Making the Process Clear: Improve Your Search Engine Rankings in 6 Steps
  Ranking higher in search engines is something that every business is trying to do (or at least they…
• Google dynamic linking
  One strange and creepy patent Imagine if you had a program that would automatically go through the…
• How to Automate and Scale Your Guest Blogging
  One of the things we do to help our SEO efforts is to write professional articles about our niche. W…
• Algorithms: The Cure for Copywriter’s Block
  Writer’s block, or perhaps more accurate these days, blogger’s block, is a common occurrence. Gr…
• How to Re-Purpose Your Content to Optimize it for Traveling Season
  I feel lucky enough to work from home for about 3 years now and to be able to travel wherever I want…
• 5 Things You Need to Know to Succeed With Bing
  With the impending implosion of Yahoo’s disappointing Panama project and seeming overnight surrend…
• Yahoo Japan Switching to Google as Search Provider
  In a surprising development, Yahoo Japan just announced that it would be switching to Google as its…
• Weekly Search & Social News: 07/27/2010
  Hello ladies and gentleman, geeks and phreaks alike, it’s time for another edition of ‘7 Days of…

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• How to Cultivate the Socialization of Your Business
  Sponsored by JenKaneCo, well known social media evangelist Brian Solis recently gave a presentation…
• 4 Steps to Social SEO Success
  The sheer volume of social media marketing and search engine optimization advice posted online can m…
• 10 Social Media Marketing Questions Answered by Engage!
  I’ve been familiar with Brian Solis as many have, for several years. We’ve done a few video inte…
• Getting Connected at SES San Francisco
  The Search Engine Strategies conference from Incisive Media has really taken an amazing turn this ye…
• 5 Tips on Twitter Chats Plus 8 Marketing & PR Chats to Follow
  There are many tactics companies can implement as part of a smart Twitter Marketing strategy. Growin…
• Is Your Online Marketing Agency a Dud? 23 Signals of Credibility
  Hiring outside expertise to grow thought leadership, sales and market share is essential for compani…
• Video: Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead
  Sometimes we learn best about doing things in new and innovative ways by understanding them in terms…
• SEO Tops Digital Marketing Tactics for 2011
  Here we are just past the halfway mark in 2010 and we’ve tapped into the stream of future marketin…
• 6 Tools For Better Blogging With An iPad
  Like many others, I recently purchased an iPad out of curiosity. While my intentions were of discove…
• 3 Things You Should Know About the New PRWeb
  As a longtime customer of PRWeb, I’ve seen many changes over the years. The oldest optimized press…

• SEO Basics: Telephone Game & the Fresh vs. New Content Debate
  There’s a game of telephone going on about a hundred different theories of Search Engine Optimizat…
• Smarter Ways to Get Content Ideas for B2B Blogs
  One of the most common challenges of business blogging is sourcing content. The range of things that…
• Moving from Fragmented to Segmented Online Marketing
  Companies today have a virtual smörgåsbord of options when it comes to marketing their products…
• 3 Essential Small Business Search Marketing Trends
  “Qualified”, “showing intent to buy”, “high conversion rate” and many other phrases are…
• 10 Reasons Why Your Analytics Are Failing & 13 Tools To Help
  Web Analytics are a key indicator to the health and performance of any website, but online marketers…
• Lee Odden On SEO And The Social Web – OMS Minneapolis Keynote
  Lee Odden, TopRank Online Marketing CEO gave the opening keynote of Online Marketing Summit Minneapo…
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• Win a Free Pass to Online Marketing Summit Minneapolis
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• Content Marketing: Definitions of Curation & Context
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• How to Write Highly Popular 30+ Item List Blog Posts to Get Links and Traffic
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• Top 16 Tweets from #BrightonSEO
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• Top 20 WordPress Plugins to Supercharge Your Blog
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• 10 Online Ways to Advertise for Jobs Without Recruitment Agencies
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• Google China: Just Abiding by the Laws? No, Censoring!
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• Will Facebook Search Become the Dominant Player?
  In recent months I have been reading all kind of material on Facebook, search and SEO. I’m not her…
• The Twitter Hype is Over
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• Why Google Won’t Buy Twitter & What They Will Buy Instead
  Welcome back to the infamous “Twitter Weekly” attack where I dissect the hype around Twitter lik…
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• SEO Tutorial: Assessing a Keyword Domain for Purchase – Does Buying Make Sense or Not?
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• Twitter: Big in Japan
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• Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 30, 2010
  This week we covered how those pink ads are really pale purple and are here to stay by replacing the…
• Daily Search Forum Recap: July 30, 2010
  Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine R…
• Google: The "Last Thing We Want" Is The "Best SEO To Win"
  Jeremy Sussman, a Google Local Product Manager has been pretty frank and clear with people in the Go…
• Google Site Speed: Two Factors, GoogleBot & Users
  Tedster started an outstanding thread at WebmasterWorld, something I personally never thought about…
• Google News Sitemaps: One Language Per Sitemap File
  This week we covered the Google one language per page rule and today I spotted a thread specific to…
• Google Ordered To Remove Search Results On Sex Charges But Document Still Shows
  Google will remove search results when a court orders them to do so or when the search result can in…
• Google: The Robots Meta Tag Is Cumulative (First Come First Serve)
  Here is a little SEO bit that some of the even more experienced SEOs may not have heard of. The orde…
• Microsoft's Street Slide, A Preview
  The online mapping products get cooler almost every day. The latest buzz is around Microsoft Street…
• Daily Search Forum Recap: July 29, 2010
  Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine R…
• Deja Vu: First Time Matt Cutts of Google Saw Web Spam
  Aaron Wall posted an example of a large brand manipulating Google through an old spam technique. In…

• Yahoo Search Marketing Reporting Goes Down For Many
  There are several complaints at both WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums that the Yahoo Search Ma…
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  Wired published an article last night named Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitor…
• More On Google Alerts Quality Control
  A couple months ago, we wrote on how Google Alerts tweaked their algorithm to be more more quality f…
• Image SEO Expert Knocks On Bing Image Search
  A WebmasterWorld thread has Zeus, someone well known in the SEO forum space as tracking the image se…
• SEO Is Not All About Technical Changes
  A WebmasterWorld thread makes a basic and obvious point that many newbies miss. SEO is not just abou…

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• Offline Purchases From Your Online Presence
  One of the major challenges from local businesses that have had success with local search engine opt…
• PPC Advertising: Is It Really Worth It?
  If you’ve got the funds, PPC advertising may be something that a marketing company is encouraging…
• Mobile Marketing: Local Search King?
  Mobile marketing isn’t something that people take into consideration much when getting involved wi…
• Target Market Marketing
  Target, target, target. Always know your target market! If you can’t name the type of audience you…
• Flash: Not So Flashy for Search Engines
  Sometimes flashing a bit of Flash can be a good thing (excuse the pun), but if your wanting to optim…
• Social Media: The Driving Force of Local Search
  If you own one of the few people in the world who hasn’t heard of social media campaigns or the su…
• Link Building – Why You Need It
  Link Building is an important part of hyper local search. If you choose to implement only SEO keywor…
• Building your SEM campaign
  To build your digital advertising campaign, there are a number of tactics you can use. One SEM tacti…
• SEO Tips and Tricks
  Using SEO on your website is a bit of an art form. Search engines scan websites and look for overzea…
• Hyper Local Search Growth
  Hyper local search is something that has been gaining prominence with the media over the last few ye…

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blog.alexa.com

• The Alexa Site Audit
  Today I thought I would write about one of our newest offerings, the Alexa Site Audit. The Site Audi…
• Alexa for Google Chrome
  Over the past months we have gotten a large number of requests for an Alexa Toolbar for the Google C…
• Advanced Demographics
  You may be familiar with Alexa's demographics data, but if not then you're in for an extra treat. Th…
• Amazon Universal Wishlist
  We've added a new optional button to the Alexa Toolbar for Firefox, the Universal Amazon Wishlist! N…
• Get Notified!
  Do you have an Alexa or IMDb toolbar for Firefox installed? Do you use Gmail? Then you might want to…
• Are you in the San Francisco Area?
  If you use Alexa.com and you're in the San Francisco area, then we would love to have you participat…
• Search Analytics with Alexa
  Some time ago we released some new Search Analytics features, and so far the feedback has been very…
• IMDb Toolbar
  If you're a movie fan,  check out the new toolbar for the Internet Movie Database!   You can sear…
• What Does it Mean to be Number 1?
  Last week there was quite a bit of press around the fact that Facebook was the most popular site on…
• Advertise on Alexa.com!
  Did you know we have a new self service advertising solution for Alexa.com? This is a great way to r…

• Toolbar Updates
  We've made some small updates to all of the Alexa Toolbars. These include the Alexa Toolbar for IE a…
• What's Going On With My Alexa Rank?
  There are two questions that seem to come up quite often in both our forums and out in the Blogosphe…
• We're Listening
  We are always interested in hearing what you think, your ideas, your suggestions, and even your comp…
• Finding Sites with the Site Finder
  Have you tried the Alexa Site Finder recently? If not, we've made a few improvements that you might…
• Search Analytics with Alexa
  When we search for something on the internet, either through a search engine like Google or a site's…
• Webmasters, Own Your Site!
  The Alexa help forums have been great for letting webmasters provide us with ideas for new services,…
• New Sites Linking In and Demographics data now live!
  In addition the the Alexa Traffic Rank, Alexa's Site Info pages provide a plethora of information ab…
• Network with the Alexa Toolbar for FireFox!
  If you use Twitter or Facebook, then we have something cool for you. I am happy to announce that we…
• 2009 Year in Review
  For those of you using the Gregorian calendar, Happy New Year! It has been an amazing year for us he…
• Get a Reviews Widget for your site!
  Since we reintroduced website reviews on Alexa, we have received a number of requests from webmaster…
• Move over Sparky, there's now a full fledged Alexa Toolbar for Firefox
  I am happy to report that you can now download an Alexa toolbar for Firefox with the same look and f…
• Alexa in Chinese continues to grow
  59E4ZA2KEN8EThe amount of positive feedback we've received about the Chinese version of the Alexa we…
• Alexa, Now in Chinese
  To better serve our Chinese users, today we are releasing a beta Chinese language version of the Ale…
• In toolbar reviews
  Since adding the ability to review websites back to Alexa.com, the response has been phenomenal. Rev…
• It's good to share
  As the father of a toddler, I'm constantly reminding my little one how important it is to share. For…

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blog.traffick.com

• Five Quality Score Myths Busted
  In search marketing, it’s easy to get people obsessed with a particular metric: you express it on…
• Freedom Sold Separately
  Well, this is bizarre. About a month ago, I posted some incoherent ramblings about number crunching�…
• Will the BlackBerry Slander Never Stop?
  When a company is #1 at something — or close to it — any hiccup that comes along is proof their…
• If You’re a Linchpin, You Have Nothing to Fear from Trada
  Trada, the paid search management environment that enables crowdsourcing in a bid to help advertiser…
• The Real Impostors
  There was a bit of an unanticipated dustup in response to Mona Elesseily’s perfectly sensible colu…
• PPC Advertising Copy: 7 Heavenly Virtues
  In the landing page optimization world, only a small elite reach peak performance. Those are the mul…
• Google Changes Ad Policy in Response to France Case
  Among several other policy updates related to permissible advertising categories and claims, Google…
• Imposing Coherence: Ever-Shifting Mission Statements
  At a recent industry presentation, I had the chance to see several of Google’s high-ranking execut…
• Canada: Do Not Call, or Do Not Care?
  Canada’s version of the Do Not Call anti-telemarketing legislation (offering homeowners a chance t…
• French Navx AdWords Banning Case - Comments
  Google will appeal the French regulator’s decision in this Navx case… and I can see why. There a…

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ysmblog.com

• Ad News and Views from Around the Web
  Online spending up double digits; tweeting at Harvard Biz; hitting the Hispanic market; giggling for…
• Free Ship = Good Tip
  It’s the wonder offer that works wonders for your sales Editor’s Note: This is another in a ser…
• Ad News and Views from Around the Web
  Right Media Open; social gets “searchy;” online video’s the new deal; not so Old Spice and mor…
• New Search Alliance Transition Updates and Tips
  Important information about the organic and paid search transition, new Yahoo! and Microsoft editori…
• The Powerful New Choice in Search
  Video: How the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance can benefit advertisers Combining scale with the…
• Viva World Cup! Viva Yahoo!
  Yahoo! topped the FIFA World Cup online league Goal! The comScore numbers prove what Paul the Octopu…
• Ad News and Views from Around the Web
  Social meets search; the death of corporate blogging (maybe); social media will reach middle age; Ya…
• 5 Burning Questions About Your Ads
  In which we answer the most frequent queries from our webinars Editor’s Note: This is another in…
• Six Social Marketing Events Not to Miss in July
  Meet and greets marketers shouldn’t miss We’d like to share some of the spectacular upcoming eve…
• 4 Tools You Should Be Using
  Essential tools to make your account better, stronger, faster Editor’s Note: This is another in a…

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redflymarketing.com

• How to Maximize Your Click-Through Rate and Add More Control to Your Landing Pages Using Ad Sitelinks
  In the organic search listings you’re probably familiar with Sitelinks. They are the collection of…
• Google Global Extension For Chrome
  Last week, due to popular demand, we quietly released the beta version of our Google Global extensio…
• View From The Other Side Of The May Day Update
  A post about the Google MayDay update, how it has impacted countless webmasters, site owners and bus…
• The Newest Member Of The Redfly Team
  A blog post about our the latest member to the RedFly family. Sinéad Cochrane, Irish tech blogger o…
• Redfly Ireland’s First Google AdWords Certified Partner
  Redfly has become Ireland's very first Google AdWords Certified Partner. After years of experience,…
• Google Global Firefox Extension Version 2.2
  It’s been a while since our last Google Global update. We’ve been kicked into gear by the forcef…
• What Every AdWords Advertiser Should Know About Quality Score – The Ultimate QS Improvement Guide
  A lengthy and detailed post, that goes into quite a bit of detail on the subject of the Google AdWor…
• Mulley Communications Online PR Workshop
  On Saturday, the 23rd of January, I attended an online PR workshop run by Damien Mulley from Online…
• The RedFly 2010 Marketing Conference & Event Schedule
  Want to meet with us in 2010? The Redfly team will be traveling the globe to attend a wide verity of…
• Geo Target Your Way To A Higher CTR & Quality Score
  A post about using AdWords Geo Targeting to improve your quality score. By using searchers location…

• Google To Become The World’s Biggest Search Affiliate?
  In this post I examine the recent changes Google has made to it's paid search offering, the loss of…
• How AdWords Can Be The Best SEO Tool In Your Arsenal
  A post with examples of how AdWords can be used as an incredibly effective SEO tool in many ways. Fr…
• Website Redesign – A Sometimes Essential SEO Tactic
  A post discussing the increasing trend towards website redesign as a prerequisite to any effective S…
• Search Engine Ranking Checkers – Why They Still Matter
  A post about search engine ranking checkers, organic SEO monitoring and the need to track many long…
• Is Your Business Model In Line With Google’s?
  A post about how Google has dealt a death blow to advertisers using AdWords for affiliate marketing…
• How AdWords Determines How Much You Pay Per Click
  Google's Chief Economist, Hal Varian has posted a fantastic video that simplifies the whole system a…
• Introducing The New AdWords Networks (Placements) View
  Post detailing some of the great new features of the new AdWords beta interface including content ne…
• 5 More Ways to Improve CTR
  A follow on post on different methods to increase not only Adwords, YSM and MSN click through rates,…
• Irish SEO, SEM, Webmasters & Designers Meetup Take 2
  The time has come again. Irish SEOs, online marketers, webmasters, all members of the Irish Webmaste…
• How To Use The Content Network To Invest In Domains
  A detailed article on using placement performance reports from the google content network to source…
• RedFly Interview With Aaron Wall Of SEO Book
  An interview with the man who literally wrote the book on Search Engine Optimisation. Dave Davis fro…
• Should You Jump Into Social Networks to Promote Your Business?
  There’s a lot of buzz in the online PR world about social networking, whether that be traditional…
• Free $100 Facebook Coupon Courtesy Of Redfly
  For those of you who are not advertising on Facebook already (and even if you are) and want to give…
• Use PPC To Dominate Your Typo SEO Landscape
  PPC advertising is not only great for generating sales and qualified traffic, it’s also the BEST p…
• Take The Guesswork Out Of PPC Campaign Setup
  As we grow and take on more and more clients as well as consult with smaller clients, there has been…
• Dublin SEO, SEM & Webmaster Meetup
  The stage has been set and flights to Dublin from most European and domestic locations are fully boo…
• How Too Many Press Releases Can Damage Your Credibility
  As an online PR consultant, there are a few questions I repeatedly get from webmasters and online en…
• 7 Tips For Finding & Expanding Your Negative Keywords
  A detailed how to guide on building an effective negative keyword list for your PPC campaigns to imp…
• A Press Release is NOT a PR Campaign
  Article explaining how an effective online PR campaign is a lot more than a simple press release. Th…
• Google Global Video Guide – How To View Google Results In Different Countries
  Our good friend Vittorio over at Tech Savvy Marketer has created a video tutorial on the installatio…

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seobythesea.com

• We’re All Google’s Lab Rats
  A recent comment here noted that the core algorithm behind how Google works hasn’t changed very mu…
• How and Why Google Might Estimate the Number of Users Behind an IP Address
  When you arrive at a web page, the owner of that page might start collecting information about your…
• The Importance of the Journey: Search Trails and Destination Pages
  Two Microsoft papers being presented at this week’s SIGIR’10 conference in Geneva, Switzerland e…
• Head URLs and Tail URLs and Bing’s Supplemental Index?
  A search engine might use two sets of indexes – one for query terms that tend to show up in more s…
• Google Gets Smarter with Named Entities: Acquires MetaWeb
  You may know him by a number of names or titles – Governor of California, Terminator, Governator,…
• Where you Point Your Mouse May Influence Google Search Rankings, Advertisement Placement, and Oneboxes
  Information about where searchers hover their mouse pointers over different parts of search results,…
• Bing’s Categorized Search Results
  When you search on Bing, sometimes instead of seeing an ordered list of search results, you might se…
• Some Random Observations
  People still read books. I started on Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness…

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phoenixrealm.com

• Introducing Open Site Explorer
  I attended SEOmoz’s Open Site Explorer (OSE) webinar last Thursday, January 28, and learned some t…
• PPC Management Software and Tips
  One of the best ways to drive interested visitors to your site is through pay per click (PPC) advert…
• Social Search and SEO
  So how is the social search engine relevant to SEO? It is obviously important because we see how mor…
• Google Social Search
  Google launched its Google Social Search this week. The new product is still in its experimental pha…
• Google News Rank Boosters
  Last time I gave some tips on how to rank better in Google News. Today I’ll be giving some more ti…
• Ranking in Google News
  If you are aiming to rank in Google News but doing exactly the same thing you do in your ordinary we…
• Observations on Google Caffeine
  Last month Google unveiled their secret project: Google Caffeine. According to Google, Caffeine is �…
• Bing Ignoring Instructions Not to Index Pages
  Bing has been having problems with its indexing. Just recently Brett Yount, Program Manager of Bing…
• Microsoft-Yahoo Tie Search Tie Up
  Earlier this year there was a lot of talk about a possible Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo. As we ver…
• The Power of the Hash # in SEO
  Early this month I promised a post detailing the uses of the # in SEO. Here it is. As I have mention…

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seo2.0.onreact.com

• The New SEO – Search Engine Organization!
  Mexican Fans by Celso Flores (image added by sombrero expert optimizer Tad of SEO 2.0) “The New SE…
• Quick & Dirty SEO or Quality Optimization?
  Most Hair Cuts 6.99$ by a4qpa. Last week I went to the barber. Actually she’s a female barber so s…
• Search Marketing Standard: The Future of Print & SEO – Interview with Associate Editor Frances Mary Krug
  The Search Marketing Standard is not only the oldest search marketing print publication I know of, i…
• Why People Hate Ads and Love SEO
  Love by jimscottIMD. I hate ads. I’m not the only one. Most people hate annoying ads. People hate…
• The Best StumbleUpon Resources Outside of SU
  This is an updated post. To enhance your StumbleUpon experience there are great third party StumbleU…
• Sometimes Success Lies in Moderation
  Balance by Liber. Just yesterday i noticed that I entered the Adage 150 top marketing blog list at #…
• SEO is a Craft not a Science
  Running Bumblebee by wwarby Recently there has been a backlash in the SEO industry against what is d…
• Google Filters: Exact Match Anchor Text Links Are the New Meta Keywords
  It’s always fascinating to see how Google treats SEO techniques that have gone main stream. Basica…
• How to Use LinkedIn for Marketing & SEO: 20 Resources
  LinkedIn Tattoo by smi23le Summary: This a a comprehensive list of LinkedIn Marketing and SEO resour…
• Stop Social Media Hopping Now to Save Your Business Later
  Social Media: Paradise or prison? Are you social media hopping? Have you been on Friendster 5 years…

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all-about-content.com

• I’d Be #1 … If It Weren’t for All Those Other Sites
  Years ago I was teaching a friend how to drive. She wasn’t feeling very comfortable pulling into t…
• Media 2.0 Day: Pew Internet & American Life
  This is Part 3 of a series of notes from Media 2.0 Day, part of the Digital Capital Week conference.…
• Media 2.0 Day: Jeff Pulver’s “The State of Now”
  This is Part 2 of my little foray into live blogging a day of conference sessions. I’m not a “li…
• Media 2.0 Day, Digital Capital Week
  Live blogging on DC Week's Media 2.0 Day. Opening session on Social and Traditional Media: How News…
• Change. Brought to You by the Letters P, B, and S
  Wow, it’s been more than a year since I last posted on this blog. I’m dusting it off because I h…
• Google’s One-Line Sitelinks Explained
  Last Thursday (April 2), Google unveiled new shortcuts in their SERPS, displaying a single line of f…
• Yahoo Enhanced Results Allows Embeds Directly Into SERPs
  Yahoo Enhanced Results (via Search Monkey) - by adding a small bit of markup around an embedded obje…
• Back to Basics: Finding Flickr Explore Photos
  Although it’s been a while since I’ve been active on Flickr, my posts on Flickr Explore and the…
• Are Behavioral/Interest-Based Ads More Relevant?
  With the new buzz about AdSense going the route of behavioral targeting (or “interest-based advert…
• Revving Up with RedEngine Digital
  When faced with scary economic times, the instinct is often to dig in, batten the hatches, hunker do…

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wiep.net

• Link Building: Just Another Popularity Game
  You can come up with all the explanations you want, but link building basically is nothing more but…
• Link Building this Month (06.2010)
  “Link building is becoming more difficult lately. People don’t link out anymore and Twitter is p…
• How to Create World Link Maps With Majestic SEO & Google Spreadsheets
  Managers love visuals. Nice charts, infographics or pivot tables make excellent excuses for not havi…
• Link Building this Month (05.2010)
  Newspapers are asked to remove links, natural links become a rarity, and more and more webmasters be…
• 10 Link Building Tools Reviewed
  I have written about useful link building tools here in more than one occasion, but I still get ques…
• Link Building is All About Answering One Question
  When it comes to link building, people tend to overestimate and over-analyze the entire process. Alt…
• Link Building this Month (04.2010)
  Using the right link building tools can make link building so much easier. And I don’t necessarily…
• The Link Builder’s Guide to Conducting a Linkability Audit: It’s YOU, Not THEM!
  This is the very first guest post on Wiep.net, and it’s definitely an awesome one. Garrett French,…
• Link Building for Image Rich Websites
  Link building can be relatively easy or pretty difficult, depending on the industry, the type of web…
• Link Building this Month (03.2010)
  Compared to last month, it’s been relatively quiet in terms of link building articles. I guess lot…

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jenniferslegg.com

• Giving your older content an SEO audit
  When most people sit down to do SEO on an established site, chances are pretty good that a lot of t…
• Could your employees sabotage your social media campaigns?
  Now that social media is the big thing that many companies are trying to roll out, those (often inex…
• Choosing a Killer Avatar for Your Online Profiles
  When you first thought to choose an avatar, you probably didn’t put much more thought into it than…
• What’s your social media personality?
  Think about the last 10 things you Twittered? Was anything personal? Did you mention what you were h…
• Creating new hot content for trending topics
  Sometimes the best articles or blog entries can be something you have written off the top of your he…
• Gaining pageviews on older blog posts through commenting
  Whether you have a old blog that has racked up hundreds of blog posts, or if you are just a newer ye…
• Why Twitter should monetize with advanced features for users
  As Twitter has been gaining more popularity, there has been lots of talk about what Twitter should (…
• How to prevent competitors from seeing your AdWords ads
  For whatever reason, you might decide you don’t want your competitors from seeing your AdWords ads…
• Is your web dev team losing your PPC conversions?
  I was on a conference call today and I had said how many people misunderstand what click fraud actu…
• Are you losing traffic to Google’s new “Did you mean” change?
  Like most people, I do tend to type quickly enough that I can occassionally transpose characters or…