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It’s clearly time for Beanstalk to officially list ourselves as a sitedefibrillation solution provider. Why? Because apparently the secret to SERP dominance with an EMD is to coin your own phrase! Do a search for ‘coinflation’ + ‘gold’ or really, almost any other keyword to see what Google considers an ‘improved’ result following the EMD […]
Last Friday Matt Cutts tweeted about Google’s latest update, which focuses on penalties for ‘low-quality’ Exact Match Domain names, hence the EMD TLA. While Google is never big on giving us the details lets digest this together! Using a relevant keyword in a domain has been a very long-standing ranking signal. ie: A consulting site […]
Is Matt Cutts just goofing around or is he really trying to scare us? The statement in the title of this article, from Matt Cutts, has the SEO world looking for further information as to just how bad the next Penguin update will be. During the SES in San Francisco this week Matt Cutts got […]
As Apple and other companies continue to sue Google to slow/halt their growth into certain markets, Google is still finding ways to help the entire planet by sharing their technical infrastructure. NASA started collecting images of Earth using the Landsat satellite system in 1972, and in the last 40 years the amount of data that […]
We know that Apple has been making a break from Google, I even blogged about it last week in my ‘Apple: On the Charge!’ post discussing the switch away from Google Maps and Google Search. Now, almost as if they were holding back a sucker punch, Google has released a version of Chrome for iOS. […]
Microsoft knows the pains of anti-trust lawsuits, million dollar fines, and the expensive nature of dividing up a business so it doesn’t look like a monopoly. So it’s no shock that one of the biggest weapons in Microsoft’s war chest is a handful of small companies that can claim Google services have stymied their opportunities […]
Admittedly, when I read the announcement that Google Advisor (Link removed – no longer available) was here to help me manage my money the first thoughts were about privacy and that last bastion of private information Google hasn’t touched yet: Banking. Being wrong never felt so good! Google Advisor is not (at the moment) a […]
When it’s my turn to tackle the SEO news for our blog I first look specifically at ‘technology’ news headlines for relevance, and then I usually filter it out a bit to nail a topic that our readers can relate to/find useful. Today’s news feed looks like I just went to Google’s news blog and […]
If you took a very heavily spam-influenced search engine like Bing for example and removed the first 1 million results for a query, how good would the result be? How about doing the same thing to the best filtered search engines available? Well someone got curious and made the million short search engine. What this […]