Moving a site is a tedious and difficult process, and can be an absolute nightmare from an SEO perspective. Google’s Webmaster Tools includes a Change of Address Form.
Today Google’s homepage featured a brand new theme logo with an interactive buckyball replacing the second letter ‘o’ in their logo.
Take a look at the source code of your Twitter profile and notice that your website URL contains a rel=”me nofollow” tag. No, this is not a reference to bad English. In fact the “me” part is in a microformats tag.
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Google’s Webmaster Help YouTube Channel has a great video that talks about Google Sitelinks and how to control them on your site. Sitelinks are the additional, in depth search results that Google sometimes returns for the top result on a search query.
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Today’s world is busy, with many different concerns competing for attention. So, when people go on-line to find information about a product or service, they want to search for and find it in the bare minimum amount of time, often clicking on the first search result that comes up and appears to get them where they want to go.
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Understanding Google’s PageRank (PR) system is a major obstacle for many aspiring webmasters who are trying to get their new website ranked well in Google so that they get more visitors. Google only lets the public know a little bit about its ranking system in order to keep spammers from attempting to cheat the system and get their sites artificially ranked well.
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Google’s Webmaster Help YouTube Channel is a great place to find loads of resources and information on how Google ranks websites, and how to improve your site’s ranking. One such video, for instance, is their video answering the question “Is it better to have keywords in the URL path or filename?”.
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The search engine market is quite a crowded place. Google, by far the dominant search leader, has a massive 65% market share. Yahoo comes in at a distant second, so far back that they had to make a deal with 3rd place Bing in order to share results and ads , making them big enough to compete.
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Google has been very clear about what it is looking for in order to rank a site well – they consistently say that having high quality content will get people to link to you and you will be ranked well.
Today an interesting new feature of web search giant Google has emerged – live results updating. Rob Ousbey, a SEO consultant, broke the story when he noticed the phenomenon and posted it to his blog.
