Is your customer base local? If your customer is searching local, then you better be thinking local on your web site. Do you design web sites or blogs for the local businesses around you? This article will give you some things to think about when it comes to search engine results. I tried to write it so a non-techy could unders

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Google sitelinks are additional links pointing to pages withing a site from a Google search. Sitelinks are rare right now for low pagerank sites and sitelinks usually only are seen on higher ranking sites.
Andy Beard discovered that he currently ha

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This is a second experimental post. The purpose is to see what effect it has on the first one that I did -- http://bloggingzoom.com/Money/How_to_Make_Money_Online-10/ -- and to see how well it drives collateral traffic (outbound links).

I'm using the default and outbound peppers of my Mint installation to see what the actual effects are.

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In this article I take a look at using blog post as landing pages and what you should do to insure a smooth landing by search engine visitors for both niche blogs and social/ flagship blogs. I also discuss the bounce rate of sites and how a high bounce rate may not actually be bad news for even a flagship blog. Read more to fin

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More and more bloggers are optimizing for Social Media sites. Are you an SMO or SEO type of blogger?

I have asked a few well-known Pro Bloggers the same question: Who are you optimizing your site/content for, social media or search engines?

I got very interesting answers from all of them, you can read the story and find out their take o

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After happening upon Rollyo.com last week, I was inspired to build a blog search engine for web designers. Rollyo is short for "roll your own" search engine. It's a simpler Yahoo powered version of Google's Custom Search. I knew as embarked on this mission that I wasn't the first to attempt it. But the wheel can always be made rounder wi

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Did you read all those the Google AdSense Terms and Conditions? Are you aware that your AdSense account can be shut down at any given moment without notice? Are you aware that if your Google AdSense account gets disabled all the money you have earned over the past month will be forfeited?
Yea, Google just keeps it! How fair is that? What a R

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I just read on the Google Webmaster Central Blog that Google is no longer treating supplemental results as a bad thing.

"We improved the crawl frequency and decoupled it from which index a document was stored in, and once these "supplementalization effects" were gone, the "supplemental result" tag itself—which only served to suggest t

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Wow! A cyber-squatter is holding google ransom! You won't believe what he wants!!

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Google provides multiple ways to help website owners bring in traffic. Shocked? You shouldn’t be. I have been struggling to get my two niche websites indexed well so that I can bring in some traffic and make some money. As I posted before, I have tried many different ways to achieve this. In the end I just submitted straight to Google. Most p

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Blogs are one form that can do many different things and that includes making yourself some money with Internet marketing. Their are various ways to do this and were going to look at three of the most popular ways to make a profit with your blog. Affiliate programs are probably the most popular way to make profit on the Internet. An affiliate

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This is one blog's story about the weird searches google is coming up with. We may all have taken Google hits, so they can get more relevant results, but this shows why that didn't truly happen since the google search found something that did not and was not on his blog. This is very interesting and makes me wonder about the Google search

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For all the godly webmaster tools that can be found on the net(most paid software), This SERP Tool is one of the most underrated tool yet it's performance is much more reliable than many others and best of all it is free to use! The tool allows you to find quickly where you rank in Google, Yahoo, Altavista and MSN Search for specific search

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Microsoft has made a proposition to buy out Yahoo! at $31 per share - an estimated $44 billion total. Today Yahoo! shares already rose 50% as a result. Microsoft explains that they believe Yahoo! and Microsoft can work better together due to economies of scale and provide a better user experience.

 

How will

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SEOMeter is the latest analytic tool that helps track down how often Google is crawling your website. This neat handy tool is bookmarked on my browser and used frequently to check on my "crawl cycle" status. All the analytic information is made available to you in terms of graphics useful for SEO analysis and understa

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Baidu is the leading Chinese language search engine. It’s so big that it currently ranks as the third biggest search engine worldwide beating out Micosoft search. Baidu started in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu.

So it doesn’t hurt to spend about one minute to submit to Baidu and gain additional traffic from Chinese speaking vi

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Everybody thinks pagerank is important but almost no one admits how important it is. The importance of pagerank can be scored by the point that Google considers the pagerank as one of the main point while ranking a site in its search results. If you have a good pagerank then you have high chance to be ranked above any other low

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This is just short post today and is more of an announcement then anything. The other day I added a dofollow search engine to my blog.

Your probably wonder what a dofollow search engine is, it is quite simple to some but I will give a quick explanation.

It is a search engine that only allows wordpress blogs that use the d

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