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Google De-Indexes Belgium Newspaper Copiepresse Over Copyright Lawsuit

According to AllThingsD, Belgian newspaper consortium Copiepresse has been removed from both Google News and the main Google index. Google states that the move was necessary according to terms reached in a copyright infringement case that was brought by Copiepresse.  However, Copiepresse is fighting back stating that Google removed their site from the index because […]

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Business Search Engine Optimization

Debunking PageRank Sculpting: “Do Follow” Categories & Tags in WordPress SEO

I just finished reading a post about an SEO strategy for WordPress called PageRank Sculpting.  The post talked about how you wanted to add a “no follow” attribute to categories and tags in order to prevent giving away PageRank unnecessarily and drive more PR (PageRank) juice to the posts of your blog. I have to be […]

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Business

Why Has Search Growth Stalled?

Taking a look at a Business Insider chart today I noticed something strange about the overall search market. There’s the obvious, that Google dominates the search landscape. But there’s another interesting take a way by looking at the chart below, and that is, why in the world has search growth seemed to stall? And I […]

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Technology

Google Turning Up The Heat on Content Farms & Search Spam

Google is looking to find new, innovative ways to increase the quality of the search results you see when you “Google” something. According to Matt Cutts, Google’s lead search engine spam engineer, in 2010 Google made a couple of changes to their algorithm that has dramatically improved the quality of search results. Primarily the focus […]

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Technology

Check Out How Google Social Search Uses Your Info (Spooky)

For some reason, this really caught me off guard. I mean, I know I share a ton of information via my Facebook profile and Facebook Fan Page. Not to mention that Google Reader is my life-line to up to the minute news and information. But I guess I’ve never seen before exactly how Google aggregates […]

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Search Engine Optimization Technology

Google Search Preview – Shaking Up Web Design and SEO

This is a guest post from Webprofits.com and is part of SMSEO’s continuing effort to form relationships with other content providers and provide a platform for exposure for online business. Every now and then Google comes up with something so useful that it’s quite impossible to call it a gimmick. Google Instant was a case […]

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Technology

Google Launches “Instant Preview” Search Results (Video)

Google has been making large, sweeping changes to their search results lately, and today they have implemented another big change. It was on September 9th of this year that Google introduced Google Instant search, which instantly delivers search results as you type a search query. But today Google has announced Instant Preview into their search results which […]