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Google Sidewiki – Your New Commenting Service

Wondering how Google’s Sidewiki will impact your site?

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What Happens When Your Laptop Gets Stolen

The story of how I had two laptops stolen, and my efforts to recover them.

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What Exactly Is rel=nofollow?

A short history of rel=nofollow and how you should, and shouldn’t be using it now.

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Google's Caffeine Update

Google caffeine search engine update is a step in the right direction.

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What Can You Learn At Google Webmaster Help Forum?

Google Webmaster Help Forum has taught me a lot over the past few months. The number one question I’ve seen over and over is: How can I rank higher in Google’s search results.

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Google Page Speed Bitch Slaps YSlow

Google’s Page Speed is a fantastic app that should be in every developers toolbox. Until today, we had to rely on Yahoo’s YSlow to try to make better decisions about how to optimize our pages. YSlow was good when it was our only option, but now compared to Page Speed it just looks like a half-finished firebug addon.

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Technical SEO Using Google Analytics (part 1)

Why does your website exist and how do you measure if it’s meeting that goal? Web analytics can help you see your website through a different prism.

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Google Webmaster Tools To The Rescue

You’re lazy. It’s okay to admit, because so is everyone else. You don’t want to pour through tour web logs looking missing pages, but you also don’t want to let requests 404 on your visitors. So you sign up for a free Google Webmaster Tools account. Google Webmaster Tool does a lot of good basic [...]

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Google Updates PageRank On The Last Day Of The Year

If you don’t follow Matt Cutts on Twitter, you should, because you can get confirmation of Google Toolbar PR updates. Google’s PageRank is not the big deal it once was, it is now just one piece of the puzzle, and they keep adding more pieces. With that in mind, it still gives you some insight [...]

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Google's Newest AdWords Tool

I finally got around to actually looking at what the Inside AdWords blog recently announced, the beta release of Google’s Search-based Keyword Tool. Lots of helpful information in this new gizmo. This is something every PPC advertiser should take advantage of, and even if you’re not an AdWords advertiser, you can make use of it. [...]

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Google Gives Out SEO Friendly Documentation

At the Official Google Webmaster Blog Brandon Falls has linked to a 22 page PDF that is what Google considers SEO best practices. Our Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing. We felt that these areas (like improving title and description meta tags, URL structure, site [...]

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