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New Google Webmaster Tool – Links

by Scott | Feb 8, 2007 | Google, Link Building, Search Engines, SEO

Google keeps adding things all the time, and with this one, they’ve made an excellent addition that can be very helpful. You should use it to identify weakly “linked to” areas of your website. Go to your Google Webmaster tools account and log in...

Google Housing is Live?

by Scott | Feb 1, 2007 | Google, Search Engines, SEO

Although Google Base has morphed from Froogle, and it’s still in Beta, Google is displaying results at this moment for real estate with a drop down box. I noticed it just now for “real estate Los Angeles”, and then trying a couple of other cities...

Copied Your Website – What Can You Do?

by Scott | Jan 25, 2007 | Google, SEO, SEO-101, Social Networking, Spam prevention, Technology News, Viruses and Scams

Today I got notified by a hosting customer that his website had their content and design copied and reposted under another domain name hosted elsewhere. The copied domain is here – www.nim-company.com while the ORIGINAL design and content are here –...

Google Page Rank Update Has Begun

by Scott | Jan 12, 2007 | Google, SEO, Technology News

You may notice your Google PR (Page Rank) fluctuating over the past few days. I suspected as much when I saw it bouncing around on a few sites, but I could find nobody mentioning it online. However, this has been confirmed by superstar Internet guru Jerry West of Web...

ALT Tags Still Mattter

by Scott | Dec 20, 2006 | Google, Search Engines, SEO, SEO-101

On my list of “Top Ten SEO Factors” I’ve never removed ALT tags, because I’ve seen evidence that they were still a determining factor in rankings. Many experts have been saying for a couple of years now that “ALT tags don’t matter...

Check Your Google Sitemap Status

by Scott | Dec 12, 2006 | Google, SEO

Yesterday I logged into my Google Webmaster Tools account, and every site there, (all of my own and all of my clients) either had a status of “pending verification” or simply said “verify”. Some of these sites have been verified for over a...