Increase PageRank and Quality Content Factors

March 25th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

Content, considered king by some, is currently proven to effect the PR of a page. For instance, pages with more content and well written content generally get a PageRank boost. If the content is original and high quality based on a “Microsoft Word-Like” word processors that Google uses, then pages gain an additional boost.
If the [...]

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Why You Need to Design Sites for Search Engines - NOT Visitors

March 23rd, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

For years we told users to design sites for their visitors and not the search engines. Today we actually state the opposite. Due to Google’s overly obsessive duplicate content filter and its parameters for spam being so close to natural content and template usage, we now believe it is imperative for sites that want to [...]

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Google February and March Updates Show “Dancing” Results

March 5th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

February and March were busy months for activity on the Google Datacenters. With thousands of sites in a constant flux, many marketers have been theorizing the end of static rankings as Google seems to be turning itself into a constantly changing algorithm similar to how MSN was a few months ago.

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Google Emphasizes Local Search Results Over Natural Listings

February 15th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

Another new addition or possibly still in beta program is the Giant Map on local search results that overpowers the natural results. Previously we saw regional results smaller with no map, and lately we have huge maps that now replace the natural top 3 listings, the regional map sticks out like a sore thumb and [...]

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Google Page Rank is Gone for AOL, Digg and More!

January 11th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

Google PageRank seems missing from thousands of sites, perhaps half the internet, or maybe just on sites trying to sell PageRank.
I was only hoping we would also see this anomaly on the Google home Page, but Google seems to have lost some data somewhere, lets just hope its not used to rank sites.

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Googie, Matt Cutts Bans Google!

January 5th, 2007 by Alan Rabinowitz

Today one of my clients emails me that no one ranks for SEO Image but there is a great alternative. Follow this link to see it: SEO Image.
I immediately sent an email with new search information to all my clients and told them all their competitors are gone. They agreed to double our fees.
Then I [...]

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Google Suggests Yahoo! Answers is the Answer to Top Google Rankings?

December 22nd, 2006 by Alan Rabinowitz

In a recent post on the Official Google Blog, Googler Stefanie, has suggested that answering questions on sites like Yahoo! Answers will get you link popularity acceptable by Google.

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Digg vs. Google Which Top 10 ranking is better? Official Poll

December 21st, 2006 by Alan Rabinowitz

We’re in a day and age where buzz travels online faster than the speed of search. Is news and buzz becoming more desired than static search results?
Here’s an interesting topic for discussion from a marketing perspective. Is it Google marketing gone haywire and sending millions to Digg it! Where do you become famous? Which Top [...]

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Google - SEOs Fix the bugs Google can’t

October 28th, 2006 by Alan Rabinowitz

Like it or not the World’s most popular Search Engine is old and has bugs. Since 1998 Google has been unable to fix its weak canonical handling and 302 hijacks that actually deteriorate website rankings if not found.

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The nofollow Tag - Spam Protection & PR All Wrapped Up in One.

October 14th, 2006 by Alan Rabinowitz

The notorious nofollow tag. Sometimes called the Link Condom, this tag is supposed to keep Google from passing PageRank and from following the link to give the link credit in Google’s “link Popularity” search engine.
The tag is added to a HTML link tag like: -a href=”link-here” rel=”nofollow”– This is what Google has asked Webmasters to [...]

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