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Google SERPS – Does Reality = Perception?

August 12th, 2010 · 36 Comments · Search Engine Stuff

First, thanks to the folks over at webmasterworld for planting the seed that prompted this post.
Perception: Google is by far the most advanced, most sophisticated, most relevant, and most accurate search engine.
Reality: Let’s find out…
Let’s compare the SERPS of the 3 major search players, Google, Yahoo, and Bing.
Let’s use a very simple single word search [...]

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Is Google’s Party Over? Fortune Magazine thinks So..

July 31st, 2010 · 5 Comments · News, Search Engine Stuff

For those of you search aficionados, there is a very interesting article in Fortune Magazine that is well worth a read..
Consider how many companies Google has acquired over the past many years..  and consider again, that they are unable to make money with any of them.
Despite their massive earnings over the past years, 99% of [...]

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Bing/Yahoo Set to Merge SERPS By September

June 17th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Search Engine Stuff

It looks like the long awaited merging of BING Search results into Yahoo is about to begin in the next few weeks, and be fully implemented by late summer.
For those of you who are well positioned in BING search results, this will be a very welcome change.
For those of you not well positioned in Bing, [...]

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A Super Easy Way to Find Secondary and LSI Keywords..

April 14th, 2010 · 20 Comments · Search Engine Stuff

Keyword research is someting everyone reading this has done and needs to do on an ongoing basis.
Everyone has their favorite tools and techniques.
I’m going to share with you a super easy way to get some really good secondary and LSI keywords using Google.
Step 1) Go to Google and enter your primary search phrase
Step 2) Once [...]

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A Simple Trick to Allow Non US Searchers to View Google’s US SERPS

February 17th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Search Engine Stuff

I’d like to share with you a very simple little Google trick that will likely prove very helpful to those of you NOT located in the USA.
One of the obstacles many non US based marketers face is that while most of you are targeting the US market, when you do a search on Google, the [...]

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Are you monetizing with Google Adsense?

September 28th, 2009 · 32 Comments · Search Engine Stuff

If the answer to that question is YES, you need to read this, because depending on how your sites that are displaying Adsense are configured you could be placing your entire Adsense account in jeopardy. How so?
There has been a clause in the Adsense TOS for quite a while that states you cannot place Adsense [...]

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Are you really getting the full value of article marketing?

August 26th, 2009 · 28 Comments · Pontification, Search Engine Stuff

There are a lot of ways to drive traffic to your site, some more effective than others.
But probably one of the easiest and most reliable ways to get traffic is through the creation and submission of articles to article directories.
This me seem really simplistic and your first reaction might be, yea, tell me something I [...]

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How a complete novice took a site from scratch to over 1,500,000 annual unique visitors in 2 short years.

August 20th, 2009 · 29 Comments · Search Engine Stuff

For those of you who have purchased some of my products in the past, you know that I have mentioned a site built by my wife.
http://www.greenbeansnmore.com
This site is a perfect lesson on organic SEO and how to apply basic techniques and turn a site into a traffic powerhouse..

This site currently averages around 5000 unique visitors [...]

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How Fast is Google Indexing New Content Right Now?

August 17th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Search Engine Stuff

The answer??
6 minutes..

The previous blog post was indexed by Google in exactly 6 minutes, by the time I got around to taking the screenshot above, 35 minutes had passed.
This is about as quick an indexing time as I’ve seen.
- Dave -
Incoming search terms for the article:how fast indexhow much time google takes to index [...]

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For the SEO Geeks..

August 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Search Engine Stuff

This one is for those of you who don’t mind reading some semi geek speak SEO stuff.
Tom Costello is the CEO of Cuil, for those of you who don’t know much about Cuil, it’s a search engine, and one whose interface I really like, (though others hate it) but that’s not the point here.
Tom’s [...]

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