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Google Social Search

posted by Gary Cottam on October 29, 2009 in Search Engines

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Google launched its Google Social Search this week. The new product is still in its experimental phase so you will need to log in to your Google account to sign up for the experiment as well as see the social …

Google News Rank Boosters

posted by Gary Cottam on September 22, 2009 in Google Page Rank

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Last time I gave some tips on how to rank better in Google News. Today I’ll be giving some more tips that are still straight from Google Developer Programs Tech Lead, Maile Ohye.

According to Ms Ohye some of …

Ranking in Google News

posted by Gary Cottam on September 17, 2009 in Google Page Rank

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If you are aiming to rank in Google News but doing exactly the same thing you do in your ordinary websites then you are likely wasting your effort in link building. The reason for this is that for Google News …

Observations on Google Caffeine

posted by Gary Cottam on September 9, 2009 in Search Engines

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Last month Google unveiled their secret project: Google Caffeine. According to Google, Caffeine is “the next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, …

Bing Ignoring Instructions Not to Index Pages

posted by Gary Cottam on August 9, 2009 in SEO

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Bing has been having problems with its indexing. Just recently Brett Yount, Program Manager of Bing Webmaster Center has responded to some complaints of incidences where MSNbot disregarded specific instructions not to index certain pages.

According to mckenzie MSNbot did …

Microsoft-Yahoo Tie Search Tie Up

posted by Gary Cottam on July 30, 2009 in SEO

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Earlier this year there was a lot of talk about a possible Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo. As we very well know the deal did not push through. This time we can be sure that Microsoft is a lot happier having …

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