Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

What we learn doing SEO for real clients. 1,311 posts since 2007.

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Obama Admits "(Not Provided)" Drove Decision To Use PRISM Program

WASHINGTON - Following revelations that the U.S. government's PRISM program has been secretly collecting information on foreigners overseas from the nation’s largest Internet companies like…

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Penguin 2.0 Link Removal Request Etiquette

Since Penguin 2.0 hit a couple of weeks ago, a number of clients have received a large volume of requests to remove links from their sites that goes something like this: "I recently received…

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Why You Should Be Open With Your Business' Meta Data

Yesterday I talked about my initial thoughts on Google's new Local Business Data Highlighter. Tyler Bell of Factual was quick to point out an important point: [View the story "Cheeky Google" on…

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How To Use Google's Local Business Data Highlighter...So Far

Google's new Data Highlighter for Local Businesses is definitely worth checking out for anyone trying to goose their local rankings. I have found it to be a bit buggy and it's a new tool, so…

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Google Alerts Tip - Works Better If You Have a Time Machine

And in other breaking CitySearch news, Darren Waddell of RadiusIntel just sent me this awesome Google Alert he received this morning: It links to this article from 2007. For all of you marketers…

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What Happened To CitySearch's Business?

Today Greg Sterling asked What's Going On At CityGrid?: "Here’s my paraphrase of some of the things I was told: CityGrid and Citysearch are struggling (to retain and deliver value to advertisers)…

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Yext Sync for Facebook: Is Every Product Destined To Become a Feature?

Today Yext announced Sync, a service that lets you sync a business' location data to Facebook along with "enhanced" data such as menus, offers, photos and status updates. While there are plenty of…

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The Mysterious Case of @DannySullivan, Dana Point Jet Ski & Google+ Local

Danny Sullivan just tweeted that Google is screwing up royally when it comes to searches for "dana point jet ski": Good job, Google. You ignore HTML title tag, make up your own title instead.…

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Enterprise SEO Strategy Tip: Don't Roll Back Your Canonicalization

enlarge If you don't have a good SEO QA process, make sure you let the SEO guy know when you push new stuff live. You're likely to break something. Better yet, let him know before you push it live.

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Rel=Can't Stand Them: Why the Rel=Canonical Tag Sucks

Dr. Pete Myers' post, Rel=Confused? Answers to Your Rel=Canonical Questions, has reminded me that I have had a bee in my bonnet about the rel=canonical tag for a while that I've been meaning to…

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