Archive for January, 2008

Recent Q&A from Google on Google Sitemaps

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11 Power Tips for Gmail

Wow, I can’t believe how many people commented on my late-Friday night post about desired features for Gmail. If you want to suggest something for Gmail, that thread is the better place to do it. But looking through the comments, I saw a few requests that can already be done today. Considering that real Gmail […]

Amazon Development Centers

If you go to www.amazon.co.za you don`t end up on Amazon`s Webshop for South Africa (there isn`t one), but instead on the Amazon Development Centre of South Africa. This is, as far as i know, online since middle of 2005. Now anyone knows what those guys are actually doing? At … […]

Link Exchange Benifits

Did you know that ‘link popularity’ has a major affect on where your website appears in search engine results? Put simply, the more sites that link to you, the higher your link popularity. This is especially true if the linking site is similar in content to yours. Advantages of having inbound links to […]

FTC Settles with Debit Card Web Marketers

The Federal Trade Commission has settled a case against a group of defendants charged as deceptive marketers that targeted subprime consumers. Continue to read more…

Google The Double Standard of Being an Authority Website

If you’ve ever been to search engine conference and attended a site review session chances are you’ve heard panelists mention duplicate content penalties and filters. For “normal” people these problems are real, however with Google a double standard exists for trusted authority websites. Case and point the SERP for [Green Real Estate] screen shot below: […]

Rip Off Report is Still Indexed and Quick 97th Floor Updates

I’m sure most of you have read all the posts that have been backing us up on removing Rip Off Report from the index. In case you didn’t you can see all the posts here Public Spam Report: Google Your Honeymoon with Rip Off Report has to Stop The Anatomy of a Rip Off Report […]

PPC Tip: Search Terms Tell You Loads About Intent

The folks over at PPC Hero are doing a new series this week on paid search advertising called “Learn to Think and Search Like Your Customers.” Their goal is to break down the different areas of paid search campaigns and to help you learn how taking the time to really consider your customer can help […]

Six Article Marketing Mistakes You Must Avoid

Although more people discover the power of article marketing every day, many fail to learn some simple techniques to optimize their writing and maximize the effectiveness of their article marketing campaigns. The following paragraphs will reveal six critical mistakes that must be avoided if you want to reap the full fruits of your article […]

How Google’s Acquisition of FeedBurner Will Change RSS Marketing

It’s been the talk of the RSS industry: Google just acquired FeedBurner, a leading RSS Metrics and RSS Advertising company. But what does all of this mean for RSS Marketing? Is this just another stepping stone for Google to become the ultimate advertising company? Continue to read more…