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Toolbar Page Rank Update

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

If for some odd reason you are still looking at Toolbar Page Rank, people are reporting that Google has updated it. So check your sites to see. Not that it matters, and I definitely recommend against using it…but there are still people out there who seem to think it’s important.

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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 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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Flock: The Social Web Browser

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Anyone who uses the internet knows that social media is growing exponentially and can also be vital in bringing in new traffic to your website. Not to mention a great way to network. So anyway, Flock is a new social web browser and can be used as a regular browser if you want, but to [...]

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It has been debated that private domain registration may affect your ability to rank in the search engines, due to the fact that you may be a spammer and might be trying to hide something. Many people won’t do it because they think that if you are a legitimate business, you don’t have anything that [...]

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What Are Meta Tags?

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

If you look at the source code of a page on someone’s website, you’ll likely see the title tag <title></title> and <meta> directly below that. Of course the title is extremely important, but just how important are the meta tags? Most meta tags are useless actually. The only two that I actually use are the [...]

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How to SEO a Website

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Do you know how to optimize a web site for the search engines? Or do you even know what Search Engine Optimization is for that matter? If you don’t know what search engine optimization is, the basic definition is that SEO is the process of improving the quality of traffic and the website’s prominence in [...]

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