What Local Business Leaders Must Know About Search Engines And SEO

When I write about SEO and business success, I often realize that I’ve touched upon a point that merits a column of it’s own. This is one such column. It will focus on the fact that online and offline marketing have grown inextricably codependent — especially for local businesses….

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Google Orders Terminator Robots Not To Kill Founders Brin & Page

How do you stop the unstoppable killer Terminators if you’re not Sarah Connor? Google does it with a simple text file. People have noted today that Google has a special “robot.txt” file that pokes fun at stopping the Terminators. Robots.txt files are actually used to stop robots…

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The EU’s Right To Be Forgotten Is A Mess & How Google’s Making It Worse

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions,” the saying goes. There are plenty of good intentions with the EU’s Right To Be Forgotten mandate, as well as Google’s attempt to meet new obligations under it. Things are still going to hell regardless. Thanks to the new…

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Bing Brings The Fireworks To Its July 4th Homepage

To celebrate the July 4th holiday today, Bing’s homepage features an image by Steve Kelly of a fireworks display over the Hudson River. The hidden links within the page offers shortcuts to a selection of American-themed searches, including: “Fourth of July” “Hoboken, New…

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The 4 Truths About Link Building

The world of link building hasn’t just evolved over the last couple of years — it has been completely turned upside down. In essence, what in many ways was once a relatively easy business has become a formidable venture to maintain. Just a few years ago, finding sources to build links…

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Search In Pics: Google July 4th Cupcakes, Jerry Seinfeld With Google Glass & Class Google Watch

In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more. Google Zurich July 4th Cupcakes: Source: Google+ Jerry Seinfeld With Google…

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Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Is Going On Leave

Google’s Matt Cutts – who holds the title of “distinguished engineer” — is taking a break from his duties as Google’s chief web spam fighter. Cutts has announced on his personal blog that he’s taking leave through October. It will be the longest break Cutts…

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SearchCap: Google Polish Penalties, AdWords Disallows Porn & Matt Cutts Takes Leave

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Head Of Google’s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Is Going On Leave Google’s Matt Cutts – who holds the title of “distinguished engineer” — is taking a break from his…

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Michael Boland and McKay Allen on Tuesay Webcast: “11 Elements of a Converted Call”

On Tuesday July 8, at 1 PM EDT, our sister site, Digital Marketing Depot will host a webcast, “11 Elements of a Converted Call.” Michael Boland of BIA Kelsey and McKay Allen from LogMyCalls will discuss why some calls convert and others don’t. Topics include the impact call length…

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