Tag Archives: Google

Fantastic Diversion: Time-Life Pics at Google

Best diversion of the month?  The millions of Time-Life photos hosted at Google.  Three million up so far and another seven million making their way to the web.  Fantastic stuff.
If you’re looking for a way to kill some time, start digging through the stacks.  Just do a standard Google image search with a “source:life” suffix.
I [...]

Rethinking the Mythological Duplicate Content Penalty… It’s Really the Unique Content Advantage

Let’s start with a simple and true statement:
There is no such thing as a Google duplicate content penalty.
It does not exist.  Period.  Don’t believe me?  Fine.  Believe Google.
That’s right, the fine folks at the Big G have told the world that there is no duplicate content penalty.  None.  It’s a lie.  It’s a myth.  It’s [...]

Five Reasons Why You Might Want to Use Pageflakes

Heard of Pageflakes? It’s one of the many personalized start page options out there. It’s also a handy little tool for Internet marketers.
You can set up a Pageflakes account faster than Al Franken can yell “recount”. You’ll get a personalized subdomain that you can rig up to meet your needs. Pageflakes [...]

Keyword-rich content and the “inevitable” quality trade-off… I don’t believe it…

No one likes reading material that was written purely for the sake of getting Google’s attention.
There are few things more annoying than web content that exists solely to register with search engines.  You know the kind of thing I’m talking about. People detest keyword-rich content.
“Dentist Altoona Pennsylvania is a great idea if you have a [...]

The value of directory links… Someone explain why I’m wrong, please…

I want to suck up to Google just as much as the next guy and, as we all know, that means spending some time securing backlinks.
That comes easy for some projects. Others, however, can’t hope to rely on link-baity goodness to secure those links. I’m a cheapskate and I live in fear that [...]

Google applauds good content, legit links… Same as it ever was…

Attention all freelance writer types and content specialists out there: Google is writing great ad copy and testimonials for you. Again.
Google’s own Maile Ohye offered a little lesson about “Good Times with Inbound Links” at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. Maile’s talking about how Google wants to rate your sites… [...]