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Google testing SERPs without counter and load time

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Just noticed that Google is testing a version of SERP without the number of results and page load time. I only see that version when logged in using my Google account. The total number of results was never a reliable number and it has fluctuated a lot for some of the websites we have worked [...]

Webinar: SEO for E-Commerce Websites

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You run a small business. You sell products or services on a relatively small scale e-commerce website. You experience periods of growth in sales and revenue. Then you hit a wall and the revenue chart flatlines. You’ve reached a critical juncture in the life of your business. The solution: Ramp up your SEO efforts. Search [...]

Google Buzz and SEO

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Web buzzed yesterday with talk about Google Buzz. A lot of people I know have already got Google Buzz. If you haven’t, check out this write up by RWW. Google Buzz has a feature called ‘image viewer’. In the demo it was showed that the image viewer fetches image from external sources Picasa and Flickr [...]

Google Announcement – Live blogging (Google Buzz)

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Google is in the air this morning! People talking about what tag to use for the event. 10:03: Event hasn’t started yet. I spotted Vic Gundotra (VP Engineering) in the room about 20 minutes ago, but he is gone now. 10:09: The event hasn’t started yet. There are 27 slides in the presentation. Starting in a [...]

Google Alerts powered by Caffeine?

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It is widely known fact that Google’s new Caffeine update is ready to go live. Matt Cutts announced at PubCon that they will launch it after the holidays season in US. He confirmed that caffeine can be accessed using 209.85.225.103 (50% of the requests). From what we have gathered, it seems like it is live [...]

Google Executing Javascript

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A lot of people don’t know that Google has been executing Javascript in the HTML pages and including the output in their index. We found this a few months back. We noticed a website with Javascript drop down menus and no static links at all had most of their pages indexed by Google. What does [...]

New Image Layout in Universal Search

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After launching the regional tags, Google announced yet another update to the SERPs. They changed how images are displayed in the universal search by making the first image bigger than the rest of the images and adding two rows of images instead of just 1. The change only applies to universal search and not image [...]

Breadcrumbs on Google SERPs

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We just noticed that Google is showing breadcrumbs in SERPs for a lot more pages now. Google was showing the “smart links” which intelligently parse the website’s hierarchy and displays it with deep links in SERPs. This is something similar to “site links” but can be controlled by SEOs and website owners to certain extent. Google started [...]

Why proof reading is important for SEO

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Last week I went to lunch with a friend to a nice Mexican restaurant in San Francisco called Mercedes Restaurant. It was easy to find on Google and had great reviews. But I noticed that the word Mercedes in the title of the homepage was regular type face in Google search result pages instead of [...]

Highest paid keywords

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Ever wondered what are the highest paid keyword on Google and how much would it cost? Laurie Sullivan recently wrote an article on MediaPost with some interesting stats on PPC rates for the 3 major search engines. Highest priced keywords: On Google was “Mesothelioma” for dollarsignr99.44 per click On Yahoo was “Mesothelioma” for dollarsignr60.68 per click On [...]