Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Google
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Excerpt: Oh no! Real-time (ECN) stock quotes appear to be gone from both the condensed and the detailed Google Finance views. Hopefully, it's just a fluke and it will be back tomorrow. Take a look:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=AMD&btnG=Google+Searchhttp://www.google.com/f ...
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Excerpt: Many search engine marketers have historically recommended placing relevant keywords in URLs. The original rationale was that a URL's contents are one of the major criteria in search engine ranking. Yahoo especially was enamored of keyword-rich URLs. Over time, this has c ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Other, Google
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Excerpt: You might get sued! Expect Google to mail lots of legal letters as they make a desperate effort to protect their ailing trademark. Google has become almost synonymous with search -- and if they aren't careful, they'll end up like "Band-aid," "Spam," and " ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, Black Hat SEO, Security, Spam
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Excerpt: I was playing around with the What is Hosted on that IP? tool I just published, and some of what I found is a bit scary. I see cases where there are a few relatively legitimate sites nestled on the same IP with hundreds of spammy sites. Needless to say, this is a liability.Suppose I am a ...
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Excerpt: Google just added a curious new feature to Sitemaps, now renamed "Webmaster Central." It allows the webmaster to specify whether he or she prefers a site be indexed as www.example.com or example.com. It is documented here. This is curious for a few reasons:1. BigDaddy was ...
Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO, SEO Tools
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Excerpt: I added some new tools to this blog. Not all of it is the mundane "link bait" you see on most SEO web sites. Some of it is kind of neat. Here's what I have so far:1. View HTTP Headers - This one is pretty boring, but it's the first one I created while figuring out ...
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Excerpt: This is a summary of the videos located at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-reinclusion-requests/ and http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/video-tips-for-ses-san-jose-2006/ titled "Video: Reinclusion requests," and "Video: Tips for SES San Jose 2006," respectively. The latter i ...
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Excerpt: By way of Search Marketing Standard's blog post here, I came across the article titled Natural-Born Search Killers by Rob Garner. It points out that as the web matures, web designers and programmers are increasingly faced with more redesigns and fewer designs from scratch. Everyone k ...
