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NASDAQ:GOOG – Google Stock Up 5%, Google+ Adds $20 Billion Market Cap

Google’s value just increased by $20 billion because of Google+, Google’s initiative to enter the social media marketspace. This means investors, although always measuring Google in regards to the search advertising revenue, see Google+ as adding a massive amount of value to the company. On June 27, the day before Google announced Google+, the stock […]

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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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Opinion Search Engine Optimization

Google Webmaster Encouraged Me To Upgrade To WordPress 3.2 ‘Gershwin’

As a follow up to my article yesterday talking about how the SEO benefits of WordPress 3.2 (Gershwin), I wanted to show you something that I found very interesting as a message in my Google Webmaster account for this site. There was a message, directly from Google Webmaster themselves, where they recognized I was running […]

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Google+ iPhone App Coming Soon

This shouldn’t be too big of a surprise to most, but the Google+ iPhone app has been submitted to Apple’s app store for approval.  I think a more politically correct way to say it would be that the Google+ app for iOS has been submitted, so as to not leave out the iPad.  Regardless, Google’s […]

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Business

Can Google Beat Microsoft At It’s Own Game?

Microsoft is getting a lot of attention today over their Office 365 product launch, which will actually be part of a release party in New York City. The Office 365 product is basically Microsoft’s attempt to bring their production suite of software, a.k.a. Microsoft Office, to the web (or the cloud as they would call […]

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Technology

Google Sites Now Auto Renders for Mobile Devices

The relevance of Google Sites has just gone to a new level. According to Mashable, Google Sites are now able to render automatically for all mobile devices, allowing your Google Sites page or website to look and function on mobile devices. The compatibility list currently shows that Google Sites will render mobile versions on iOS […]

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YouTube

Google Becomes First Company To Hit 1 Billion Visitors Per Month

Google is now the first internet company in the world to hit 1 billion unique visitors in a single month, according to data from comScore. During the month of May, Google web properties to include its search engine, Gmail service, video sharing site YouTube, Google Maps, and others, claimed over 1 billion unique visitors. This […]