Scam artists are at it again. Hardly a week goes by when one of my clients doesn’t get approached by some sort of Internet scam. Yesterday, a client forwarded one of the latest variations of the domain name registration scam. Although this very common scam is over 10 years old, site owners and companies still fall for it all of the time. (more…)
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Beware of Domain Registration Scams
Friday, February 5th, 2010Google Personalized Search Results – Good or Bad?
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009On December 4, Google announced an expansion of their Personalized Search feature that alters and varies the results for each user performing a search in Google.
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Google To Display Tweets in Search Results
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009Google has signed a deal with Twitter and will begin displaying tweets in Google search results. The announcement is generating mixes reactions among SEO professionals and site owners.
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Huge Click Fraud Ring is Busted
Monday, October 12th, 2009A massively large click fraud ring called DormRing1 was detected and shut down. The culprits were located in Singapore and China. The Chinese connection used over 1000 college students operating out of Shanghai Technology Institute and other Chinese technical colleges to scam advertisers for fraudulent click charges in pay-per-click advertising campaigns.
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Google Celebrates 11th Birthday
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
On September 27, 2009 Google celebrated its 11th birthday by changing its web site logo, as it has for the past several years. This has become a tradition with Google ever since it celebrated its 4th birthday in 2002.
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Google Confirms – Keywords Meta Tag is Not Used
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009Matt Cutts, a Google Quality Engineer, confirmed what we have been saying about the keywords meta tag for many years.
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New Yahoo & MSN Partnership Deal – What Does It Mean?
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009on July 26, MSN and Yahoo announced a 10-year deal where they will partner to compete more aggressively against Google. The exact details of the partnership have not yet been hammered out, but tentative roles have been announced.
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The Canonical Link Tag
Sunday, March 1st, 2009On February 19, Google announced a new tag that specifies the standard version of a URL to help avoid duplicate content issues with search engines. The new tag specifies the canonical, or standard version of a URL. MSN and Yahoo also announced that they will recognize the canonical tags.
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