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Archive for December, 2007

Squidoo was a really great tool for bringing in traffic not so long ago, until Google started penalizing anything that came from the site, due to so many spammers taking advantage of it, but it’s been a while, so I’ve decided to take another look at it.
It looks like Squidoo has taken the steps [...]

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Google Video Sitemap Introduced

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

If you own your own site, you’ve likely had the great fortune of keeping a sitemap.xml up to date. Well, now you have the great fortune of keeping a video sitemap up-to-date. Sorry, it’s just been a tedious process for me, especially when I come from an SEO agency in which I had to manage [...]

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Google Maps Gets Even Better

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Google has been making so many great updates to their services, it’s hard to keep up, but of course, they’ve done it again. The service of interest this time is Google Maps.
Google has now added some new functionality to their already awesome app, Google Maps. If you do a search, you may find the results [...]

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Google Adding New Feature to Adwords

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

When you are searching the natural listings in Google, have you ever noticed a PlusBox under the listing. These are normally used for either a Google Map or a YouTube video. It’s a pretty cool function actually. Well, Google has decided to include this feature in their Adwords system. If you choose to have this [...]

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Google Making Street View Anonymous

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

In an attempt to protect the privacy of those who have been captured on Google Street View doing something embarrassing, Google has announced that they will be blurring out all faces in the service, along with license plate numbers. This will start when the Street View service launches in Europe and they have stated that [...]

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