The Panda Enigma: An Overview of Major SEO Factors
June 6th, 2011 // 11:15 am @ Lauren Indvik
Google’s Panda algorithm is an enigma, a paradox. On one hand, it has devastated many web-based businesses. That is not a trivial thing.
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Richard Scarry Gets Google Doodle On 92nd Birthday
June 5th, 2011 // 2:00 pm @ Lauren Indvik
Popular children’s author Richard Scarry – born June 5, 1919 and died April 30, 1994 – received the cyber equivalent of a star on the walk of fame – a Google Doodle.
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Search For Tomorrow: Linden Lab Upgrades InWorld Search
June 4th, 2011 // 1:25 pm @ emarketer.com
Sometimes the news is slow, and sometimes it comes in an avalanche. This past week or so has seen a whole lot of new and interesting things happen in relation to Second Life. Meeroos, a timeline for Mesh, The Great Facebook Avatar Deletion (with a..
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Google +1 Increases CTR in Organic SERPs, Ranking Boost Likely [Study]
June 3rd, 2011 // 12:50 pm @ emarketer.com
Dutch company, SEO Effect, have put out a whitepaper detailing their experiment in using Google +1 to augment their search rankings.
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Google Apps Could Soon Not Work In Your Browser
June 3rd, 2011 // 10:35 am @ Lauren Indvik
In a quiet announcement on their Docs blog, Google said they would not be supporting Firefox 3.5, Internet Explorer 7, and Safari 3 or older browsers as of August 1. They warn “in these older browsers you may have trouble using certain featur…
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Sharing Netflix Password Could Make Jailhouse Rock
June 3rd, 2011 // 9:55 am @ Lauren Indvik
If you live in the state of Tennessee sharing your password to your music or movie access accounts could land you in jail after July 1. Tennessee governor Bill Haslam passed a bill making music and movie sharing illegal and to stop hackers from se…
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Google, Bing and Yahoo Sitting in a Tree, S-C-H-E-M-I-N-G
June 3rd, 2011 // 7:05 am @ Lauren Indvik
In a joint move, Google, Bing and Yahoo! have announced they will work together in a combined effort to create standardized tags to better search and index structured markup data on Web pages. Markup data allows site owners to tag various attribut…
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Google Offers and Payments: It’s all about Search
June 3rd, 2011 // 6:00 am @ admin
If you’ve been awake for any of the past 48 hours, you probably heard about Google’s new Offers product. And you’ve likely read at least one headline that included the words “Groupon Killer”
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IL Affiliate Tax Being Challenged As CA Pass it
June 2nd, 2011 // 11:57 am @ emarketer.com
The Performance Marketing Association challenged the constitutionality of the Illinois law taxing products sold by affiliate marketers residing in the state, filing a lawsuit claiming it violates federal law; as the California State Assembly passe…
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Social Content Seeding for SEO
June 2nd, 2011 // 8:00 am @ emarketer.com
Social media budgets often takes a backseat to search. After all, it’s easier to measure the ROI of search, so marketers see it as a safer bet. First, it’s easier to tie SEO and PPC directly to sales than, say, tweets or Facebook lik..
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