This is a random list of 20 things I found fascinating about Google that you may not know. It's the 2nd in a series I'm writing after I recently read the book; Steven Levy’s “In The Plex” - How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives. I hope you find it as interesting as I
I read an article recently on Web Pro News about a blog post Jennifer Ledbetter an Internet Marketer wrote. In it she discusses the influence Google Quality Raters have on search algorithm changes. In particular, she was suggesting that the Quality Raters may be responsible for URL's getting flagged and marked as spam, which Matt
I Just finished reading Steven Levy's "In The Plex" and loved it! (http://amzn.to/s46q1F) It gives some fantastic insight in to Google's history, their culture as a company, projects they are working on now and in the past that have both failed and become integral parts of our daily lives and most importantly in to the
Don't know what search engine optimization is or why you may need it for your website or business? Know someone who needs an easy to understand overview of SEO and why it's necessary? That's what this video provides, in three minutes thanks to Search Engine Land and Common Craft.
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Chris von Nieda has been doing a great job handling some updates on our websites, most recently http://www.celebritychefstour.com. Friday night he called me with some catastrophic news. He was working on some updates and suddenly started getting warnings from his browser that there was Malware detected on the website. Well, we certainly were not hosting
As a business owner you realize you need SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and the value it provides. So how do you determine the cost both in the short term and long term and make sure you are getting SEO ROI? The cost of SEO depends on your goals and expectations. The cost is also dictated
I first met Chris von Nieda on LinkedIn during a discussion in one of the SEO groups. He immediately stood out from the pack as someone who GETS IT. He did a quick analysis of my website free of cost, showed me some areas of opportunity and proved to me he can bring us results
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine is a document written by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google in the early days before it was a "company". In it, they explain how Google works including PageRank as they conceptualized it back then. I was participating in and following a discussion on LinkedIn
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