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Category Archives: Search
Google Profiles Become More Prominent
Back in 2007, Google released the first incarnation of the Google Profile. Back then the functionality was quite limited but it served a clear purpose – Google were looking to consolidate down all of the profile data that users had … Continue reading
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Google Webmaster Tools Displaying PDF & Word Document Links
Google Webmaster Tools has the ability to explore the internal links and external links or backlinks information for a given domain, instead of relying on the infrequently updated and wildly inaccurate link: operator within a Google search. Traditionally the link … Continue reading
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Google Local Business Centre Receives Upgrade With Humorous Outage Message
The Google Local Business Centre is currently undergoing maintenance for approximately 60 minutes and instead of a standard maintenance notice, Google engineers have gone for something a little more light hearted: The Google Local Business Center is unavailable for the … Continue reading
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Google Search Options Enhanced
Google Search Options allows the user to refine their search to target a subset of the normal search results, such as only showing video, forum or news results in addition to date and time filtering. Today the search options have … Continue reading
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How To Get Your Google Profile Indexed
In December 2007, Google released the first incarnation of the Google Profile. This was the beginning of a continued effort from Google to refactor numerous services to have a more modular architecture, so that key pieces of information were held … Continue reading
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Google Account Canonical URL Failure
Search engine optimisation consultants world wide have been pushing the URL canonicalisation wagon for quite some time. URL canonicalisation ensures that a given internet resource can only be reached by a single URL. That might seem like a relatively straight forward … Continue reading
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Search Engine Optimisation Via Dead Trees
I thought I’d undertake some professional development surrounding search engine optimisation, ironically in the form of a paper back book, named Get to the top on Google written by David Viney. As I work my way through the book, I … Continue reading
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Tagged google, search engine marketing, search engine optimisation, sem, seo
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Ask.com Deceptive Advertising Practices Is A Grab For Cash
While doing a little research this morning, I stumbed onto a paid advertisement within Google for Ask.com, informing me that I could booking BreakFree hotels & resorts from within the Australian localised Ask.com portal. Being the curious kind of person, … Continue reading
Changing Temporary (302) To Permanent (301) Redirects
It’s common place to register multiple variations of a domain to protect the brand or product that the domain is related to. At some point, a web master must choose what he or she is going to do with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 301, 302, google, google search, http, permanent redirect, temporary redirect
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Non-English Languages & Whacky Domain Names
While doing a little research for an upcoming article tonight, I revisited the web site of James Holderness. If the name looks familiar, it’s because I linked to him in January regarding detecting duplicate items within RSS feeds. When I … Continue reading