Changes in Google Adwords

August 2, 2006

If you’ve been using Google Adwords, you’ve may have noticed a sudden jump in your cost per click. It wasn’t imaginary – Google is putting more emphasis on the quality of your landing page in calculating your minimum bid. There was, apparently, a lot of Adword spamming regarding the landing pages. People would click through [...]

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Goggle – insider scoop for SEO

August 1, 2006

Matt Clutts, who works at Google, has just produced a free online video that has lots of cool info for search engine optimization and web design. Here is the URL: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-answers-on-google-video/ (If you have trouble finding the video in the library, click on the first less on this page.) Topics include: Qualities of a good [...]

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Getting Site Stats with Google

July 31, 2006

If you wish, you can set Google up to provide you – free of charge- some key statistics on how people are finding you in Google. To start, use the same entrance page that you used to set up your sitemap, or: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview Set up a free account in Google if you haven’t already. Add [...]

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Creating a Sitemap

July 21, 2006

In indexing a site in the search engines, Google first finds your home page and saves the information on that page to it’s index. Then Google comes back later (generally weeks) and crawls down your site indexing the rest of your site from the links on your home page. Unfortunately, for most sites these links [...]

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Search Engine Optimization – Do it Yourself!

July 18, 2006

We’ve just updated our SEO book and it is now version 9. It’s now all of 240 pages and available for immediate download. Here are some of the major changes: The PPC chapter has major updates. Learn which PPC advertiser is best and how to use their service to get those sales Getting in the [...]

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Changes at Google

July 3, 2006

Now that the BigDaddy update is over, what does this mean? What is Google looking at as important now in ranking your site? Here are some things we’ve noticed: Incoming link quality is used to determine how deep Google will crawl your site. Those incoming links and their quality are important! Pages that were sharing [...]

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Vista Beta 2 released to the public

June 8, 2006

Vista Beta 2 released to the public June 7. Want to try it? Here’s the link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/default.mspx

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Vista Birthing

June 7, 2006

The Beta 2 of Microsoft Vista, or more technically “Vista Consumer CTP” or Community Technology Preview, should be released at any moment. Reports from those using this Beta 2 will be the big clue as to whether Microsoft can meet their delivery date of getting Vista to major customers in Novemeber and to the public [...]

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Good Resources

June 6, 2006

Here are a few good web sites for developers: Lost your site? You try to pull up your site on the Internet and it won’t come up. Is it your computer, the network, or your server? A quick way to find out is to go to http://www.alertra.com. For free, they will attempt to reach your [...]

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Comcast Using Spamming IPs

June 1, 2006

One of our clients recently complained that suddenly they couldn’t send any email. Their outgoing email (SMTP) was through Comcast, and it was being was filtered with a spam filter. The commercial black list used for that had their IP listed as a spamming IP and blocking their outgoing email. Their outgoing IP belonged to [...]

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