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There's a brand new Google AdWords quality score metric, page load time. The new factor has just been added to the AdWords full dump of their help section. Page load time is the time it takes a web page to load in seconds. If the load time in slow, Google says it will impact your quality score. Why? Slow loading landing pages are bad for your use
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How many times have you visited one of the many “professional” blog advice sites, and left with little more advice than the ubiquitous (and unhelpful) “build great content?” Andy Beal has decided to share a few of his best tricks.
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Last month the Google Quality Rater’s handbook was leaked online. This is what Google deems important when judging the quality and relevance of a web page.
In spite of what many say, Google does not entirely rely on automatic computer-based algorithms in its search engine rankings.
They do employ human editors that control the quality of se
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Did you know you can strategically use the "nofollow" attribute on your own pages to improve your search engine rankings on Google?
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Google introduced a new service called Ad Manager. It gives Web site publishers more control over their ad sales and ad serving. Google's target users are SMBs. It's yet another free service; there are no fees associated with Ad Manager. Google will, however, take a commission on revenue from ads it sells on your site.
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Once upon a time directories provided value to webmasters who were either looking to get new sites indexed or increase their site's link popularity or both. Now I am seeing a trend where directories are not as helpful in these two areas as they once were. Add to that the rising costs of submission fees and it is easy to see why the small business
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Ever felt you'd NEVER get the chance to advertise your business on TV?
Google AdWords has just made a MAJOR announcement: they are launching Google TV Ads, an all-digital system that lets you place your ads into TV program. The service has been available as a trial program for over a year now, and now Google has opened it up for everyone.
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Rodney Bartlett interviews Google's Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2007 in Las Vegas. Matt had some excellent tips for small business owners and answered a few great questions.
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Do marketers now need to consider capitalization of keywords and phrases in order to determine their search rankings?
Google documentation relating to web search clearly states that searches are not case-sensitive. They provide an example stating that “searches for george washington, George Washington, and gEoRgE wAsHiNgToN will all return the
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Fretting over why you can't move your website's Google Pagerank beyond 3? Maybe it just fell from 5 to 0. The following forum discussion explains why you may be worrying for no good reason.
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From article: Storus Corp just successfully sued another advertiser for use of a trademarked term in the ad copy. This is the first time that I have seen a company sue another advertiser directly without relying on Google as the intermediary for filing trademark exceptions.
As PPC advertisers, this affects us dramatically.
There are ads run
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A great summary of the latest in search engine optimization. For example, find out what Google thinks your website is about by using the Keyword Tool. Plus, it's not directly stated, but if you've got a web videos, host them on YouTube rather than use your own bandwidth. It's more likely you'll show up on the top of Google SERPs.
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What is demographic bidding? It's a feature that helps you target your ads to users of a particular age group (such as ages 18-24), by gender, or to combinations of those groups. You can use demographic bidding whether you are using contextual or placement targeting and with both CPC and CPM bidding. You can refine your reach based on users' gen
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There are many efficient SEO techniques to optimize your business's Web site, and then there are nefarious methods, which not only ruin your reputation and get your site banned from Google but also have legal ramifications.
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Okay, so it may not exactly be a business tip, but considering how often I use Google in my business I thought I passs these extremely helpful tips along. My favorites are the currency converter and using the tilde to find related terms.
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Can Verizon change its organizational character and become a model for open source innovation? Or will its internal character prevent it from making the necessary cultural changes?
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This is a page from my Blog that I thought might be interesting to this community.
Linda
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Search engine marketing firm iProspect published its iProspect Blended Search Results Study. The study revealed that blended search results offer high clickthrough rates. So, how can marketers capitalize on the blended search trend?
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Microsoft this week unveiled Microsoft Online Services for companies of all sizes. Previously, and somewhat incongruously, MOS had been available only to companies with 5,000 employees or more. Now, it's out there for the audience that seems most likely to crave it, SMBs.
MOS consists mostly of hosted versions of Exchange and SharePoint serve
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The New York Times reported yesterday on a New York state bill that would make it a crime to use personal information for advertising without consumers' consent—punishable by a fine.
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A new targeting option is available to marketers using Google's Adwords marketing - geographical targeting. The upgrade in the system allows businesses to advertise to consumers based on age or gender.
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A revolution in Marketing: After several years of low-key alpha testing and on and off again rumors of launch, it appears that Google Print Local will finally go live as a public beta in the next few weeks.
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In May, Google started a phased roll-out of its much-awaited Universal Search model. Through a new set of algorithms, Google Universal Search results
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A new tool has been launched by Google AdWords that will automate the process of monitoring and adjusting cost-per-click (CPC) bids to enable adverti
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