Dec
13
2009
Google recently added a real time widget to their Search Results Pages (SERPs) in an effort to integrate the growing volume of social media, breaking news, and blogosphere content into the Google Index. The Google Real Time search widget is triggered when the volume of content in the RightNowosphere reaches a certain trending [...]
Nov
17
2009
Google Alerts www.google.com/alerts is an essential tool for business owners that want to monitor their brand, business name, and ultimately their reputation online. With a few quick entries you will be notified via email every time Google discovers the topic of your Alert.
Here is the syntax that I recommend you set up for your [...]
Oct
16
2009
Good news for sites with shopping carts, reservation and booking engines, MLS and property listings, and any other website that generate dynamic urls that lead back to the same page. The Problem (SEO perspective) is duplicate content. Multiple paths (urls) back to the same content will hurt your sites ability to perform in [...]
Sep
17
2009
Google’s new search tool is in beta testing right now, called Google Caffeine. This will eventually replace the current search tool on google.com. The stated goal of the product is to deliver more relevant search results, as quickly as possible. That’s the short version, you can read the whole enchilada over at [...]
Jun
16
2009
Website owners have received the ability to customize the way their listings appear in the search engine results. In the past the only variables you were able to control were the title tag and the meta description. Hold on to your hat folks, Google has just introduced Structured Data Mark Up.
Marking up structured [...]
Jun
12
2009
Google Search has added a set of tools to the search results pages, called Search Options. The Options tab is located just below the search term entry box. Clicking the options opens a panel of filters that lets the searcher drill down by media type, index time, results type, timeline and my favorite, [...]