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The Advertising Threshold

January 28, 2012

A client received an inquiry from an ad network – would they be open to offering banner ads on their website from advertisers with products that may or may not be unrelated to the client’s website?  It can be rewarding receiving recognition for having grown a website to a size that can attract advertising, but [...]

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Fresh and Recent Search by Google

November 14, 2011

On the official Google Blog, there was a post a week or so ago entitled “Giving you fresher, more recent search results.” This post shows how Google continues to improve near-real-time and timely search without cannibalizing or otherwise discounting the value of their vast index of the web and the deep amount of information that [...]

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Google Offers Takes on Groupon – Why It Will Work for Google

June 1, 2011

Google today announced a beta test of Google Offers, which is taking on Groupon and other coupon/offering startups head-on. Now, not every Google roll-out is a wild success (see Buzz and Wave), but Google has a few things going for it that give Offers a leg up.

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Google Broadband Project Lands In… Kansas City

March 30, 2011

Last year, Google announced an initiative to bring an ultra high-speed broadband network to a chosen city in the United States, and the response was off the hook. Over 1,100 cities applied and many went the extra, ahem, last mile, bringing together politicians, celebrities, business leaders and more. Take for instance this Google rally in [...]

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Advanced Web Ranking Review

December 28, 2010

I’ve done a couple posts on WebPosition recently, and one of the comments discussed a site ranking software package called Advanced Web Ranking. I’m giving the 30-day trial a spin, and in full disclosure, the company offers an Enterprise license for a review, which does not include the maintenance contract, for which I’d have to [...]

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10 Things To Know About SEO

September 15, 2010

Following is a list of 10 things to know about SEO, and why a website owner should consider SEO for their site. This isn’t mean to be a primer on how to do SEO, but rather an overview with some basic knowledge about what SEO is good for, and what to look out for.

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Google Instant A-Z: Single Letter Searches & Big Brands

September 10, 2010

Google Instant arrived this week – if you haven’t seen it in action, log in to your google account or gmail, and go to google.com. Search results change and shift with every keystroke of your search, and Google starts delivering results with the very first keystroke. So I compiled a list of results for single [...]

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Arcade Fire, HTML5 and Google

August 30, 2010

HTML5 is a structure for coding websites. One of the exciting possibilities it presents is support for a lot of functionality that has previously required third-party browser plug-ins, such as video and drag-and-drop. It appears to have gotten a kickstart when Apple locked out Flash from the iPhone and iPad. So Google worked with the [...]

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How Does Google Work?

June 30, 2010

…and what else does Google have its fingers into? Aaron Wall and PPCBlog put together a fantastic flowchart showing how Google works.  As Aaron prefaces it, this probably won’t be accurate in the years to come, because Google is on such a rapid development path.  It might not even be accurate by the end of [...]

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Google Places: Fixing an Incorrect Marker Location For A Business

May 18, 2010

What’s Google Places? It’s the new re-branded Local Business Center, where you can claim your business, edit your business listing and influence how your business is displayed in Google Search, Google Maps and other locally oriented Google search tools.

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