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Is this natural? Used cars, used cars for sale, buy used cars…

Mickey — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:53:26 +0000

Another great “Whiteboard Friday” video from Rand at SEOmoz. This one talks about over-optimization and it covers it very well. Check it out: SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – On-Site Over Optimization from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. Post from: MickMel SEOIs this natural? Used cars, used cars for sale, buy used cars…

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Is this natural? Used cars, used cars for sale, buy used cars…

Search queries are getting longer

Mickey — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:29:48 +0000

It’s something that I’ve suspected, but never had the data to back up — users are typing longer search queries into Google. As people become more comfortable with search engines, they’re learning that longer queries will help them find what they want much more easily. There’s also the thought that searchers may be refining their [...]

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Search queries are getting longer

All on board for the new “Canonical Tag” for you to use

Mickey — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:10:04 +0000

A new tool has been added to your arsenal to help fight against duplicate content on your site, and Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all on board with it. Introducing the “Canonical Tag”. This new tag allows you to specify the desired URL for a page that might have multiple URLS. For example, you might [...]

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All on board for the new “Canonical Tag” for you to use

Get more links by fixing erroneous links to your site

Mickey — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:30:32 +0000

Google has just released a handy tool to the webmaster portal that shows you all of your 404 errors with a link of pages that link to them. As Matt Cutts explains, it’s an easy way to get some links to your site. There are probably sites out there that meant to link to you, [...]

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Get more links by fixing erroneous links to your site

Search the web as it was in 2001

Mickey — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:35:37 +0000

Now this is pretty cool. You can search the web as it existed back in January, 2001 using this nifty page that Google created. It’s only going to last for a month, so go play with it. There’s certainly no SEO value in using it, but it’s kind of neat to play with it and see [...]

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Search the web as it was in 2001

Google Suggest finally coming to the main Google homepage

Mickey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:45:17 +0000

It’s been in Google Labs for a couple years, but Google Suggest is finally coming to the main search box on Google.com. Google Suggest shows an on-the-fly drop-down of possible search results as you’re typing. The advantages of this, as presented by Google, are: Help formulate queries. Start typing what you want to find, and [...]

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Google Suggest finally coming to the main Google homepage

Make sure you own your name in Google

Mickey — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:42:46 +0000

What happens when you search Google for [your name]? Do you like what you see? Part of that depends on your name. If your name is common (Joe Smith) or owned by a celebrity (if your name is Michael Phelps and you’re not a swimmer, good luck) you might be in trouble. For the rest [...]

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Make sure you own your name in Google

Google takes a shot at Cuil — shows how they customize results

Mickey — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:39:15 +0000

When Cuil launched a few days ago, one of the features they promoted is that they don’t store ANY info about searches performed on the site. Now Google has shot back by making their “customized results” a bit more transparent. When you search, you might start to see a box in the top right corner [...]

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Google takes a shot at Cuil — shows how they customize results

Formidable Google competitor launches — Cuil

Mickey — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:23:14 +0000

Cuil (pronounced “cool”) has just launched today, and looks like it might be the first search engine in a while to give Google some competition. The main thing Cuil promotes is the size of it’s index — 120 billion pages, compared to the estimated 40 billion pages in Google’s index. However, we’re not sure what [...]

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Formidable Google competitor launches — Cuil

Big search engine news coming next week?

Mickey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:23:58 +0000

TechCrunch has just hinted at a major search engine announcement next week. In this post, we read the following: Google also says “But we’re proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine.” That may be true today, but it probably won’t be true next week (check back here then). Google knows that [...]

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Big search engine news coming next week?