Google Social Search – Tweets & Likes

February 18, 2011

Google Showing Tweets & Social Media in Search Results announced today – but rolling out slowly. I’m not given the option to opt-in as of this writing, the day of the announcement by Google. This is from the official Google blog, making the announcement today in a post titled “An update to Google Social Search“
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Video Sitemaps Best Practices from Google Webmaster Tools

December 28, 2010

Google Video Sitemaps tutorial from Mark Robertson of ReelSEO in video form featuring Google video Product Manager Nelson Lee and Google Partner Rep Amy MacIsaac discussing details of best practices and point out the importance of required elements including video:loc and video:player_loc. There are a list of questions (below) that are addressed in Q&A

Below are [...]

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Social Media Links as Ranking Factors

December 27, 2010

Matt Cutts on Twitter & Facebook social links as ranking factors. Here he confirms that Google looks at social signals as a ranking factor, but that those signals are weak and may only apply to “Real Time” results for now. It’s become clear that social links lead to crawler activity, but as a ranking factor, [...]

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Google Zeitgeist 2010 Top Searches

December 13, 2010

Google took the opportunity to highlight their own technology and products this year as the Google Zeitgeist video shows via Google products – gmail, Google News, Google Instant, YouTube and others what we searched most frequently in 2010 by prominently featuring each in the 2010 Zeitgeist Video below.
I’d like to see a way to [...]

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Real Time Search Home Page

August 30, 2010

Google toyed with some experimental real-time display in standard search over the past six months – but have now given real-time search a home page. Here’s a screen shot.
They appear to have made it incredibly powerful and flexible, with timeline, filter by location and other interesting tools. Expect to hear a lot of chatter over [...]

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Complete Guide to Search Engine Optimization: Social Media Marketing: Infographic

August 15, 2010

The following graphic is from SplashMedia and appeared on BloggingPro.com where the infographic was called Complete Guide to Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing – That’s a mouthful. With that out of the way – let’s take a look at the useful details presented in this graphic.  

Keyword Research: showing a chart with “Competition” [...]

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Google Buys Metaweb: Entities, Tags, Keywords

July 17, 2010

I’ve long been an advocate of tags for SEO – but just marking them up and exposing them on your site seems not to help rankings so much. The important role they play is organization and clarification. Tags are meta data and they are meant to clarify, compartmentalize and sort – not to rank.
Tags have [...]

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Bing Maps Video: Impressive Flickr Image Overlays

February 28, 2010
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What Do We Do With Black Hat SEO’s – Boil Them in Oil or Worship Them?

February 21, 2010

At SES London 2009 the question above was asked of those in attendance – there’s a similar mashup of the 2010 responses, but I like this one better and the lighting is acceptable. This video mashup assembles the answers to that 2009 question in an entertaining way in under 3 minutes. My favorite response was [...]

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