We have talked about URL length issues and SEO and if long URLs are spammy in the past. But now we have a Google Groups thread with a Googler, JounMu, actually commented on a specific URL as being a bit...

Google has topped the Harris Interactive Reputation Quotient which asks US consumers to first identify the 60 most visible companies and then to rank these companies based on their reputation in six different categories: Emotional Appeal, Products & Services, Social Responsibility, Vision &

I can't express how happy I am to see a real live API available for Google Webmaster Tools. The announcement came late Friday, telling webmasters and developers that they can now use an API to access and communicate data back...

Mike asks: What do you consider rich? Just financially speaking… not the common “I’m happy, so I’m rich” definition. ShoeMoney: If you limit me to simply financial I would have to say when you can purchase everything you need and not go into debt. Party Clothes asks:

In preparation for a presentation this week on the importance of link building and steps to an efficient and effective link building strategy, I am putting together blog posts this week which reflect my philosophy on link building, and what I have learned over the years. Is it all too often that a company

I had the honor of breaking the story on the Google Trends for Websites announcement. In fact, I was on a call with Sundar Pichai (VP, Product Management), R.J. Pittman (Director, Product Management), and Matt Cutts (you know him) of...

Google has managed to build an awesome search engine to my mind: it has a simple user-friendly interface and returns the most relevant results. However naturally, Google just can’t satisfy everyone’s needs. The following FireFox Extensions will help you to adapt Google’s interface

Jefferson Graham of USA Today stopped by the Googleplex a little while ago and we talked about SEO tips for business owners that want to run their business, not live and breathe search 24 hours a day. The result is an article of search engine optimization (SEO) advice that you could hand to any friend

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Now if you are serious about your online business, it’s always best to have a budget allocated specifically for web promotion activities. For any new business, you would need to get immediate attention and long term traffic to sustain your business model. After all we do agree that traffic is

Well I am upgrading some of my directories to the latest version of PHPld and as I donot have custome templates for all of them, I will be using some of the free ones available. The PHPld template list that I manage is for the last version of PHPld 3.2 and I will be updaing that soon. Recently some

In this week's video recap, I announced the special Father's Day winner of the schwag, plus told you how to win this week (it's easy). I showed off the Father's Day logos from Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Dogpile and others. I...

I noticed today in Google trends you can get website data. The Google toolbar is installed by more users then any other toolbar and no doubt has the most accurate data. Its nice to see shoemoney.com has pulled away from our arch rival John Chow.

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You think that somebody learns from past mistakes and does not repeat the same mistake over and over again. That does not seem to be true in the case of Google, specifically with their YouTube.com property. After my very negative experience in January this year did one thing change to the better as

There are two reasons why we love WordPress the most. Not just because it is a good blogging platform but also because of the free themes and plugins available for it. With Wordpress, all good things indeed come for free. Personally Wordpress has now become my preferred CMS too and I am using it as

Right after announcing about Google Trends for Website, Jonathan Simons of the Google Webmaster Teams announced that they are opening the Google Webmaster Tools for third-party integration with the release of its API. For the initial version of the Webmaster Tools API, the Google Webmaster Team has

Google’s search trends analytics - Google Trends has just added a new feature called Google Trends for Website. If Google trends measures and displays statistics for search keywords in Google whether by specific time frame or even search trends as hot as today (hot trends), Google Trends for website

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If you didn’t know already, IVS is soon going to be relaunced. I have had the oppouruntity to see the new site in action and I have to admit that IVS will definitely catch the eye of many as the best directory resource with functional activities that would aid both a directory owner, a submittor