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The geeks shall inherit the Web

Filed in Google, Link Building, MY BEST POSTS, Social Media, Yahoo by Matt McGee on August 1, 2006 0 Comments
The geeks shall inherit the Web

You may not realize it, but the geeks pretty much own your site right now. They own your link profile — both the quality and quantity of inbound links you get. And that means they own your search engine rankings … your SE traffic … and so forth. Follow me on this. I’m sure you […]

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AdWords results in Google Local

Filed in Google, Local Search, PPC Advertising by Matt McGee on August 1, 2006 0 Comments
AdWords results in Google Local

I talked a couple weeks ago about the obviously different algorithms at play in Google’s main SERPs and local SERPs. Not mentioned was that the AdWords system also often displays different ads when the same search is done in both places. Stacy Williams asked about this apparent anomaly on the SEW Forums yesterday, and an […]

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Gone supplemental in Google? Get out….

Filed in Google, MY BEST POSTS, Web Site Content by Matt McGee on July 20, 2006 1 Comment
Gone supplemental in Google? Get out….

I just replied to a post on the Small Business Ideas forum about Google’s supplemental index, and how to get out of it … and it occurs to me that the post I wrote is far and away the most extensive thing I’ve ever written on the subject. So I’m posting here on SBS to […]

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Local search algorithms?

Filed in Bing, Google, Local Search, Yahoo by Matt McGee on July 19, 2006 1 Comment
Local search algorithms?

earlpearl asks a good question over at the Small Business Ideas forum: What factors are involved in the local search algorithm? As I said in that thread, I’ve not seen (or done) any research on this question. But in Google, Yahoo, and MSN, when you run the same search on both the main search engine […]

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Google Maps (Local) creeps further into main SERPs

Filed in Google, Local Search by Matt McGee on July 18, 2006 0 Comments
Google Maps (Local) creeps further into main SERPs

One of the things I’ll be talking about at SES San Jose next month is local search, and specifically how small businesses should be taking advantage of local search now — not because local search is a big traffic generator in its own right, but because local search should become a more important part of […]

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Ditch the ODP title

Filed in Bing, Directories, Google, Yahoo by Matt McGee on July 13, 2006 2 Comments
Ditch the ODP title

This is great news: One of potentials drawbacks of having directories such as DMOZ or Yahoo list your site is that search engines might take your directory listing information and use it in the SERPs instead of the actual [TITLE] element and meta “Description” on your page. As I describe on the Directories page, Google […]

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