Category: Search Engines

Jan 10

Google Hotpot: Google’s Answer to Yelp

hotpot 300x171 Google Hotpot: Google’s Answer to Yelp

Google Hotpot is the latest rating and location-based portal, based on your Google Search history of places you have looked up and reviewed previously on Google Places and new searches done from Hotpot.

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Dec 10

Common SEO Question: How Can I Be Number One on Google?

I came across this great video from Google’s SEO Guru, Matt Cutts, about a common question many SEO professionals get asked on a regular basis– “How can YOU make my site #1 on Google?”

I always tell clients that in my opinion, any company or person that promises you that you will get a #1 ranking is probably either a) using “black hat”, or inappropriate, SEO practices or b) doesn’t know what they are doing. Any true SEO expert knows that promising a #1 ranking to a new or current customer is a definitely no-no when it comes to SEO.

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Sep 08

Get Excited for Google Instant!

Google is announcing Google Instant today! Does it work in your browser yet?

Google Instant guesses what you are searching for and brings up results as you are typing. Google estimates that this shaves 2-3 seconds off of your search time.

What does this mean for SEO and paid search? Only time will tell, since this is a brand new feature.

Here’s another great article about Google Instant with more information on Lifehacker.

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Aug 09

6 Tools to Discover Popular Search Terms

toolbox 150x150 6 Tools to Discover Popular Search Terms

By James Adams

Google the term “search engine optimization”, or SEO, and in 1/3 of a second you’ll have about 36 million results! Needless to say, all of that information can be a bit overwhelming. So where should you start? A good way to dig into the world of SEO is simply this: Find keywords that are currently popular, and then build some content around them. Here’s a brief look at six tools that will help you to do just that.

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Jul 15

Use Stop Words to Condense SEO Meta Tags

stop sign 300x225 Use Stop Words to Condense SEO Meta TagsThere are several common words that many search engine crawlers overlook when indexing web content. These words are skipped to save disk space and to increase loading speed. Try to avoid these words in meta tag creation.

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