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Who is King?

Picturesque — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:02:01 +0000

Google has been receiving a lot of criticism regarding the quality of searches. Yes, spam content sites have been an issue for months causing many to jump ship to Bing for research (including me). Google finally woke up and has released a few statements across the boards that they are beefing up their elimination of [...]

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Meta Keywords Are Back?

Picturesque — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:21:33 +0000

There are signs that Google is using the meta keywords tag again. This tag hasn’t been used for so long that many sites have left it out altogether. Seen as a waste of time they rightfully put their time to better use. Now it may be worth the time to at least include them on [...]

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Google Reading Level Search

Picturesque — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:03:15 +0000

Google’s Advanced Search page now let’s you specify your reading level and will attempt to only provide content that you are able to read. There is a discussion on the Google forums here. Turning on this feature let’s you filter content by reading level and will show you how much content is within each level [...]

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Google Product Listings Error

Picturesque — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:03:39 +0000

Google product listing ads are not properly tracking conversions. Google is aware of the issue and has posted it on their help desk. A fix is in the works.

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News Corp on Bing Only?

Picturesque — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:23:01 +0000

News Corp wants Google to pay for indexing their news content and serving it on Google news pages. Google says, tell us not to index it and we won’t. News Corp, says you took it now pay. You get the argument from there. It’s the War of Standstill Hill.Now Microsoft sees an opportunity and offers [...]

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Sculpting PageRank

Picturesque — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:40:38 +0000

For those of you using nofollow tags on your site to control PageRank and the flow of link juice, Matt Cutts of Google has written a very short article explaining why Google doesn’t want you to do this. If you don’t personally check the links on your site (e.g. blog comments), it appears that it’s [...]

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