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Should User Ratings Show in SERPs?

Last night someone I ran into from my PCC internet marketing class told me about an article in the New York Times this Sunday, concerning a merchant who had seen an increase in his business since he started treating his customers poorly. The eight page story that came...

5 Questions Matt Was Not Asked at Pubcon

Matt Cutts is the head of Google’s Webspam team, and each year in the past, he’s been a participant in the “search engine smackdown” at Pubcon. This year he had the stage all to himself, and I was in the second row for the session as he talked...

Google Missing Malware Notifications

With 100% certainty, I can say that Google Webmaster Tools Malware warnings are not arriving consistently, and there’s a breakdown in their system. In the last two months, there have been three instances where although malware has been found, no malware...

Google Instant Effect vs. Affect

Google Instant was rolled out to the world yesterday, which changes the way search results appear. Rather than waiting for you to push a button that says “search”, as you type, search results will simply appear, based on whatever you’re typing....

Removing a YouTube Strike

I just found out that a YouTube Strike is is on my video channel, and that certainly can’t be good! Over the past few months I’ve been using a simple embed code from YouTube to share the videos over at SEO Automatic, and it’s been easy enough. Today...