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Caffeine update still not here

For those of you interested in the rollout of the Caffeine update here is the latest word from MC. This came in a comment on a post detailing some good link-building tips, Google style. I covered it on my SMX panel but for some reason Lisa didn’t mention it in the live-blog coverage. You might check this link: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/5186826 I think I talked about it some...

Google Hopes Mobile Ad Rates Beat Desktop Standard

Investors and online advertising experts may want to consider for a moment what, exactly, has contributed to Google’s stupendous financial success (current market cap: $180 billion).  Now consider this: Google thinks mobile ad rates might surpass what’s come to be deemed the industry standard. According to Reuters, Vic Gundotra, a vice president of engineering at Google, announced...

Google China Shows “Tank Man,” Tibet Search Results

The clash between Google and the Chinese government appears to be coming to a head.  Various sources have reported that Google ignored a cut-off date to reregister as an Internet content provider in China, and more importantly, that the company has stopped censoring search results. Let’s get the paperwork-related story out of the way first.  Charles Arthur wrote this morning, "Google...

More material for web site owners

Here’s some more stuff you should know about. - I did a monster-long interview with Eric Enge. I think the interview lasted an hour or something like that, and we covered several areas in depth. - Next, take a break and go read this post by Rhea Drysdale. Heck, maybe send her a donation by Paypal (Added: the address if you want to send a Paypal donation is rhea_drysdale [at] yahoo [dot] com)....

SES NY 2010 Live Blogging Schedule

SES New York is a week from today and we will be providing live blogging coverage of the event – yet again. Every year I say I will retire from doing it, but then I continue to do it. Heh. In any event, I always enlist a great team of volunteer bloggers to help me with the coverage. The volunteers include: Sheara Goldenthal of Promediacorp Brian Ussery of Beussery.com Annie Cushing of Find...

Google Just Got OWNED (PWN)

Would you believe that Google is no longer the most visited website in the US? I wouldn’t if I heard it. According to Hitwise, Facebook.com is now the most visited website in the United States! Wow. Status updates and friend requests over searching for relevant content. Amazing. With that amount of traffic, you just can’t ignore facebook as an advertising platform any...

Why The SEO Industry Is Special

I have been part of the SEO industry for a pretty long time now. The thing is, I really don’t offer SEO services, but yet, I still write about the industry, cover the news and go to the industry gatherings. The question I am asked about this is why? Why bother if you don’t sell SEO? I always come back to the industry and how special it is. There is something about the people in the industry....

Google Providing SEO Support For Muti-Regional Web Sites

JohnMu from Google posted a blog post named Working with multi-regional websites. The post goes over many of the SEO implications behind making multiple web sites all targeting different regions around the world. John discusses URL structures, hosting, domains, using Webmaster Tools and much more. If you ever had to deal with a multi-regional web site before, this post is something you should read....

Droid Beats iPhone In Sales Comparison

There’s good and bad news for Google this morning with respect to Android and the mobile market.  In terms of how many units were sold during their first 74 days of availability, it seems the Droid beat the iPhone to the million-unit mark, but the Nexus One is lagging far behind. That’s the state of things according to Flurry, which claims that applications using its analytics tools...

Google Hungary Shows Italy’s Colors On Hungary’s National Day

Reported via the Google Web Search Help forums, Google Hungry’s web site yesterday was sporting a logo for Hungary’s National Day, which was on March 15th. The Google Doodle reportedly had the wrong logo. Here is the Google Doodle as shown on Google Hungary’s web site yesterday: As you can see, the colors in this cockade is green to white to red, from the inside out. But the Hungarian...

Warning: Google My Maps Bug Can Impact Your Maps

Google Maps Guide, Cecelia, created a Google Maps Help thread warning users not to edit their Google My Maps. The specific issue is with editing the Place Details in the My Maps. If you do edit it now, it may impact the rest of your information on your map. Cecelia said: We are aware of a temporary technical issue with My Maps. Our teams are working hard to resolve this issue. Until everything is...

Facebook.com Beats Out Google.com In Web Visitors This Week

Hitwise reports that Facebook.com surpassed Google.com in visits to become the most visited website for the week ending in March 13, 2010. It is not the first time this has happened, on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th Facebook.com surpassed Google.com as well. It is important to note, that this only is Google.com traffic. It does not...

Is Wikipedia on the Road to Becoming the Next DMOZ? (SXSW)

There is no shortage of interesting sessions going on at SXSW Interactive in Austin, but one that was especially interesting was "Can Wikipedia Survive Popular Success and Community Decline?" – a presentation from USC Professor of Journalism Andrew Lih. The session explored factors that contribute to the declining rate of Wikipedia entry editing, although Sue Gardner, Executive Director...

Using Anchor Links to Make Google Ignore The First Link

Posted by Errioxa This post was originally in YOUmoz, and was promoted to the main blog because it provides great value and interest to our community. The author’s views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of SEOmoz, Inc. In the past, I have tried several different ways to skip the first link that Google takes into account for a given URL (nofollowed links, links with 301...

I Admit it… I Ripped It Off…

Recently, I sent out an email that had a subject, “$27,287.50 In 8 DAYS! (How To)”. This email was to notify people that the recording of the free CPV webinar with David and Corey was ready for free download (you get it for free on my affiliate marketing guide page). In this webinar, David explains how one of his campaigns made over $27k in just 8 days. They then go on...