Google's new search movie maker

April 15, 2010
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Google's new search movie maker

Create A Video with Google’s New Search Story Creation Tool In my inbox this am, I saw a news alert Google had created a new tool to create movies based on your search queries.  Based off Google’s first-ever Super Bowl advertisement featuring a search based movie comprised of screen-shots from Google search, Google Maps,...

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Dynamic Keyword Insertion and Capitalizations

March 21, 2010
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One of the more interesting features of AdWords that advanced PPC marketers have been using is Google Dynamic Keywords. This allows you to insert the search query that the user typed in directly into your ad. How to Use AdWords Dynamic Keywords In your title or description lines, you can enter a little bit...

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Leveraging the Content Network

March 16, 2010
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Lots of folks talk about search and never delve into the content network. In the search network you choose keywords based on which ads will be shown in search results. In contrast with the content network, you choose locations, ie, web-sites and individual pages within those sites, where you would like to see your...

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You Will Never Read a Newspaper Again

November 12, 2009
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You Will Never Read a Newspaper Again

Here are the nation’s 10 largest newspapers based on circulation and their websites. Every newspaper has seen circulation decline over the past few years. Newspapers face a special challenge in transitioning from print to the web. While it seems clear that increasing traffic alone won’t solve the business problems of newspapers, it’s all they’ve...

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Product Development via Customer Feedback

November 11, 2009
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Product Development via Customer Feedback

Photo by megThere are certain companies I am a huge fan of and others, well, they just cant seem to get of their own way sometimes. how to measure a companies potential success in the market place? How quickly and how well a company responds to customer feedback. Integrating and implementing the feedback into...

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Did the NYT take a SEO Play from Wikipedia Inlinking Strategies

November 10, 2009
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Did the NYT take a SEO Play from Wikipedia Inlinking Strategies

The other day on twitter I mentioned a dramatic change in the way the New York Times was creating their content and the start of a new in linking strategy for them. Wikipedia does have an incredible internal linking structure. And now it appears as if the NYT is going to try and become...

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Ranking Domains Using Domain Maturity

November 8, 2009
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Ranking Domains Using Domain Maturity Invented by Janine Crumb, Krishna C Gade, Rangan Majumder, Vishnu Challam Assigned to Microsoft US Patent Application 20080086467 Published April 10, 2008 Filed October 10, 2006 Abstract Ranking domains for search engines is provided herein. To rank a domain, contributing domains associated with the domain are identified. Additionally, the...

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Banned By Google? How to tell if Google penalized you

October 15, 2009
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Banned By Google? How to tell if Google penalized you

Although, as a rule, I do not practice “blackhat”, sometimes we have doubts about whether Google has penalized a site. Especially when we are expecting the index to be included in any new website just launched. Google usually takes a few days to index a new URL (in fact, this may take several weeks),...

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Everything You Know About Link Farms is Wrong

October 12, 2009
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Everything You Know About Link Farms is Wrong

FFA and Link Farms FFA sites (Free For All) are web pages that include a link to the website you just point free. But it has two drawbacks: 1) Usually you have to register or provide personal information. Many of these sites sell the email addresses to companies that then spam your inbox. 2)...

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